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2013
- Douglas, T., (2013), 'Enhancing Moral Conformity and Enhancing Moral Worth', Neuroethics, Vol: online.
- Douglas, T. (2013), 'Moral enhancement via direct emotion modulation: a reply to John Harris', Bioethics, Vol: 27(3): 160-168 EPMC
- Douglas, T. (2013), 'Human enhancement and supra-personal moral status', Philosophical Studies, Vol: 162(3): 473-497 EPMC
- Douglas, T., (2013), 'A Concise Argument: On The Wrongness of Killing', Journal of Medical Ethics Vol: 39(1): 1-2 [freely available]
- Gipson, J., Kahane, G. and Savulescu, J., (2013), 'Attitudes of Lay People to Withdrawal of Treatment in Brain Damaged Patients', Neuroethics, Vol: Online first [open acess] EPMC URL TO FOLLOW
- Kahane, G., (2013), 'Must Metaethical Realism Make a Semantic Claim?' Journal of Moral Philosophy, Vol: 10(2): 148178 EPMC
- Kahane, G., (2013), 'The armchair and the trolley: an argument for experimental ethics', Philosophical Studies, Vol: 162(2): 421-445 EPMC
- Savulescu, J. and Persson, I., (2013), 'Getting moral enhancement right: the desirability of moral bioenhancement', Bioethics, Vol: 27(3): 124-131 EPMC
- Shea, N. (2013), 'Inherited representations are read in development', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol: 64(1): 1-31 EPMC TO FOLLOW
- Terbeck, S., Kahane, G., McTavish, S., Savulescu, J., Levy, N., Hewstone, M. and Cowen, P.J., (2013), 'Beta adrenergic blockade reduces utilitarian judgement', Biological Psychology, Vol: 92(2): 323-328. EPMC
- Wiech, K., Kahane, G., Shackel, N., Farias, M., Savulescu, J. and Tracey, I., (2013), 'Cold or Calculating? Reduced Activity in the Subgenual Cingulate Reflects Decreased Aversion to Harming in Counterintuitive Utilitarian Judgment', Cognition, Vol: 126(3): 364-372. EPMC
2012
- Anderson, J., Strelkowa, N., Stan, G., Douglas, T., Savulescu, J., Barahona, M. and Papachristodoulou, A., (2012), 'Engineering and ethical perspectives in synthetic biology', EMBO Reports, Vol: 13: 584 - 590 UKPMC
- Cohen Kadosh, R., Levy, N., OShea, J., Shea, N. and Savulescu, J., (2012), 'The Neuroethics of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation', Current Biology, Vol: 22(4): R1-R4 Word
- Bourne, H., Douglas, T. and Savulescu, J., (2012), 'Procreative beneficence and in vitro gametogenesis', Monash Bioethics Review, Vol: 30(2): 29-4UKPMC
- Douglas, T., (2012), Commentary: 'Self-serving bias and the structure of moral status', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 38: 141-142
- Earp, B., Sandberg, A. and Savulescu, J., (2012), 'Natural Selection, Childrearing, and the Ethics of Marriage (and Divorce): Building a Case for the Neuroenhancement of Human Relationships', Philosophy & Technology, Vol: online first UKPMC
- Foddy, B., (2012), 'The Right and Wrong of Growing Old: Assessing the Argument from Evolution', Philosophy & Technology, Vol: 25(4): 547-560 UKPMC
- Kahane, G., Wiech, K., Shackel, N., Farias, M., Savulescu, J. and Tracey, I. (2012), 'The Neural Basis of Intuitive and Counterintuitive Moral Judgement', Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Vol: 7(4): 393402 UKPMC
- Kahane, G. and Savulescu, J., (2012), 'The Concept of Harm and the Significance of Normality', Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol: 29(4). EPMC
- Kahane, G., (2012), 'The value question in metaphysics', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol: 85(1): 27-55 UKPMC
- Kahane, G., (2012), 'On the Wrong Track: Process and Content in Moral Psychology', Mind & Language, Vol: 27(5): 519545 UKPMC
- Kahane, G. and Savulescu, J., (2012), 'The Concept of Harm and the Significance of Normality', Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol: 29(4): 318-332 UKPMC URL to follow
- Levy, N., (2012), 'Ecological Engineering: Reshaping Our Environments to Achieve Our Goals', Philosophy & Technology Vol: 25(4): 589-604 UKPMC
- Powell, R. and Clarke, S., (2012), 'Religion as an Evolutionary Byproduct: A Critique of the Standard Model', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol: 63(3): 457-486.
- Savulescu, J. and Persson, I., (2012), 'Moral Enhancement, Freedom and the God Machine', The Monist, Vol: 95(3): 399-421
- Shea, N., (2012), 'Reward prediction error signals are meta-representational', Noûs, Vol: early online Jun 2012 UKPMC URL to follow
- Shea, N., (2012), 'New thinking, innateness and inherited representation', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Vol: 367(1599): 2234-2244 UKPMC
- Terbeck, S., Kahane, G., McTavish, S., Savulescu, J., Cowen, P. and Hewstone, M. (2012), 'Propranolol reduces implicit negative racial bias', Psychopharmacology Vol: 222 (3), pp.419-424 UKPMC
- Wilkinson, D. and Savulescu, J. (2012), 'Should We Allow Organ Donation Euthanasia? Alternatives for Maximizing the Number and Quality of Organs for Transplantation', Bioethics Vol: 26(1) UKPMC
- Wilkinson, D. and Savulescu, J., (2012), 'A costly separation between withdrawing and withholding treatment in intensive care', Bioethics, Vol: Early online UKPMC URL to follow
2011
- Edmonds, D. (2011) 'Out of thin air' Prospect Magazine, December issue
- Kahane, G. (2011), 'Mastery Without Mystery: Why there is no Promethean Sin in Enhancement', Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol: 28(4): 355368 UKPMC
- Kahane, G. and T. Chan. (2011), 'The trouble with being sincere', The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol: 41(2): 215-234 UKPMC
- Kahane, G. and J. Savulescu. (2011), 'Disability: A Welfarist Approach', Clinical Ethics, Vol: 6(1): 45-51 UKPMC
- Kahane, G. (2011), 'Should We Want God to Exist?' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol: 82(3): pp. 674-696.
- Kahane, G. (2011), 'Evolutionary Debunking Arguments', Noûs, Vol 45(1) pp. 103125 UKPMC
- Levy, N., (2011), 'Resisting Weakness of the Will', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol: 82 (1): 134-155 UKPMC
- Levy, N. (2011), 'Searle's Wager', AI and Society, Vol: 26(4): 363-369 UKPMC
- Levy, N. (2011), 'Neuroethics: A new way of doing ethics', AJOB Neuroscience, Vol: 2(2) pp. 3-9 UKPMC
- Levy, N. (2011), 'Response to Open Peer Commentaries: Neuroethics: A new way of doing ethics', AJOB Neuroscience, Vol: 2(2) pp. W1-W4 UKPMC
- Savulescu, J. and I. Persson. (2011), 'Getting moral enhancement right: the desirability of moral bioenhancement', Bioethics, Vol: online first 29 Jul 2011.
- Savulescu, J. and Persson, I. (2011), 'The Turn for Ultimate Harm: A Reply to Fenton', Journal of Medical Ethics Vol: 37(7): pp. 441-444 UKPMC
- Savulescu, J. and Finn, A. (2011), 'Is Immunisation Child Protection?' The Lancet Series Vol: early online 9 June.
- Shea, N., Pen, I. and Uller, T. (2011), 'Three epigenetic information channels and their different roles in evolution', Journal of Evolutionary Biology Vol: 24: pp. 1178-1187 UKPMC
- Shea, N. (2011), 'Developmental Systems Theory Formulated as a Claim About Inherited Information', Philosophy of Science Vol: 78(1): pp. 60-82 UKPMC
- Shea, N., (2011), 'Methodological Encounters with the Phenomenal Kind', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol: 84(2): 307-344 UKPMC
- Wilkinson, D. and J. Savulescu. (2011), 'Knowing when to stop: futility in the ICU', Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, Vol: 24(2): 160-165 UKPMC
- Wilkinson, D., (2011), 'A Life Worth Giving? The Threshold for Permissible Withdrawal of Life Support From Disabled Newborn Infants', The American Journal of Bioethics Vol: 11(2) UKPMC
2010
- de Crespigny, L., Wilkinson, D., Douglas, T., Textor, M. and Savulescu, J., (2010), 'Australian attitudes to early and late abortion', Medical Journal of Australia, Vol: 193(1): 9-12.
- Douglas, T. and Savulescu, J. (2010), 'Synthetic biology and the ethics of knowledge', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 36(11) pp. 687-693 UKPMC
- Douglas, T., (2010), 'Should Institutions Prioritize Rectification over Aid?' Philosophical Quarterly, Vol: 60(241): 698-717 UKPMC
- Douglas, T. (2010). 'Intertemporal Disagreement and Empirical Slippery Slope Arguments' Utilitas 22(2): 184-197 UKPMC
- Erler, A. (2010), Does memory modification threaten our authenticity?, Neuroethics, Vol: 4, 235-249 UKPMC
- Kahane, G. and Shackel, N. (2010), 'Methodological Issues in the Neuroscience of Moral Judgment', Mind and Language Vol: 25(5): pp. 561-582 UKPMC
- Mars, R.B., Shea, N.J., Kolling, N. and Rushworth, M.F.S., (2010), 'Model-based analyses: Promises, pitfalls, and example applications to the study of cognitive control', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol: 65(2): 252-267 UKPMC
- Savulescu, J. and Kahane, G. (2010), The value of sex in procreative reasons, American Journal of Bioethics, Vol: 10(7) pp. 22-24 UKPMC
- Shea, N. and Bayne, T., (2010), 'The Vegetative State and the Science of Consciousness', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol: 61(3): 459-484 UKPMC
2009
- Douglas, T., (2009), 'Medical Injury Compensation: Beyond No-Fault', Medical Law Review, Vol: 17(1): 30-51.
- Kahane, G. and Savulescu, J. (2009), 'Brain-damaged patients and the moral significance of consciousness', The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Vol: 33(1) pp. 1-21 UKPMC
- Kahane, G., Skene, L., Wilkinson, D. and Savulescu, J. (2009) 'Neuroimaging and the Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment from Patients in the Vegetative State', Medical Law Review, Vol: 17(2)
- Levy, N., (2009), 'What Difference does Consciousness Make?' Monash Bioethics Review, Vol: 28 (2)
- Shea, N. (2009), 'Imitation as an inheritance system', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Vol: 364(1528) pp. 2429-2443
- Shea, N. and Heyes, C. (2009), 'Metamemory as evidence of animal consciousness: the type that does the trick', Biology & Philosophy, Vol: 5 (1) pp.95-110 UKPMC
- Wilkinson, D., Kahane, G., Horne, M. and Savulescu, J. (2009), 'Functional neuroimaging and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from vegetative patients', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 35 pp. 508-511 UKPMC
2008
- Douglas, T., (2008), 'Moral Enhancement', Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol: 25(3): 228-245.
- Levy, N. (2008), 'Introducing Neuroethics', Neuroethics Vol: 1(1): pp. 1-8.
- Savulescu, J. and Persson, I. (2008), 'The Perils of Cognitive Enhancement and the Urgent Imperative to Enhance the Moral Character of Humanity', Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol: 25(3) pp. 162 - 167
2007
- Douglas, T. (2007). 'Ethics Committees and the Legality of Research' Journal of Medical Ethics 33(12): 732-736.
2006
- Savulescu, J. (2006), 'Conscientious Objection in Medicine', British Medical Journal, Vol: 332 pp. 294-297
- Sheehan, M. and Gillies, J. (2006), 'When should patients be held responsible for their lifestyle choices?' British Medical Journal, Vol: 332 pp. 279
2005
- Levy, N. (2005), 'The Good, the Bad and the Blameworthy', Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Vol: 1 pp. 1-16
- Savulescu, J., Thomson, J., Schofield, P., Mileshkin, L., Agalianos, E., Zalcberg, J. and Jefford, M. (2005), 'Medical Paternalism and Expensive Unsubsidised Drugs', British Medical Journal, Vol: 331 pp. 1075 - 1077