Our Recent Publications
2011
Authored Books
- Levy, N. (2011), 'Hard Luck: How Luck Undermines Free Will and Moral Responsibility', (Oxford University Press, Oxford)
- Buchanan, A. (2011), 'Beyond Humanity?: The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement' (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics) (Oxford: OUP)
Edited Books
- Savulescu, J., ter Meulen, R. and Kahane, G., (Eds.) (2011). Enhancing Human Capacities, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell
- Selgelid, M. J., McLean, A., Arinaminpathy, N. and Savulescu, J., (Eds.) (2011). 'Infectious Disease Ethics: Limiting Liberty in Contexts of Contagion', Springer
Journal Articles
- Kahane, G., (2011), 'The armchair and the trolley: an argument for experimental ethics', Philosophical Studies, Vol: Online first [open access]
- Clarke, S., Powell, R., and Savulescu, J. (2012), 'An ethical and prudential argument for prioritizing the reduction of parasite-stress in the allocation of health care resources', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol: 35(April ): 90-91.
- Clarke, S. and Roache. R. (2012), 'Introducing Transformative Technologies into Democratic Societies', Philosophy and Technology, Vol: 25(1): 27-45.
- Earp, B. D. (2011), 'Do I have more free will than you do? An unexpected asymmetry in intuitions about personal freedom'. New School Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 9, No. 21, 34-40.
- Earp, B. D. (2011), 'Can science tell us what’s objectively true?' The New Collection, Vol. 6., No. 1, 1-9.
- Shea, N. (2011), 'Methodological Encounters with the Phenomenal Kind', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol: online first.
- Dogulas, T. (2011), 'Human enhancement and supra-personal moral status', Philosophical Studies, Vol: online first
- Douglas, T. (2011), 'Moral enhancement via direct emotion modulation: a reply to John Harris', Bioethics, Vol: first published online: 17 NOV 2011.
- Savulescu, J. and I. Persson. (2011), 'Getting moral enhancement right: the desirability of moral bioenhancement', Bioethics, Vol: online first 29 Jul 2011.
- Kahane, G. and T. Chan. (2011), 'The trouble with being sincere', The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol: 41(2): 215-234. [freely available]
- Kahane, G. and J. Savulescu. (2011), 'Disability: A Welfarist Approach', Clinical Ethics, Vol: 6(1): 45-51.
- Kahane, G. (2011), 'Mastery Without Mystery: Why there is no Promethean Sin in Enhancement', Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol: 28(4): 355–368. [open access]
- Foddy, B. (2011), 'The Ethical Placebo', The Journal of Mind-Body Regulation Vol: 1(2): pp. 53-62.
- Foddy, B. (2011), 'Addiction and its Sciences — Philosophy', Addiction Vol: 106(1): pp. 25-31.
- Levy, N. and Kitano, Y. (2011), 'We’re All Folk: An Interview with Neil Levy About Experimental Philosophy and Conceptual Analysis', Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science Vol: 19: pp. 87-98.
- Levy, N. (2011), 'Enhancing Authenticity', Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol: 28: pp. 308-218.
- Levy, N. (2011), 'Moore on Twin Earth', Erkenntnis Vol: 75 pp. 137-146.
- Levy, N. (2011), 'Changing One’s Mind: The Ethics of Memory Erasure in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind', Scienza & Filosofia Vol: 5: pp. 29-49.
- Kahane, G. (2011), 'Should We Want God to Exist?' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol: 82(3): pp. 674-696. [open access]
- 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. [open access]
- Savulescu, J. (2011), 'JME Mach X: what will it offer you?' (editorial), Journal of Medical Ethics Vol: 37: pp. 453-454.
- Kahane, G. and Chan, T. (2011), 'The trouble with being sincere', The Canadian Journal of Philosophy Vol: 41(2): pp. 215-234.
- Shea, N. (2011), 'What's Transmitted? Inherited Information', Biology & Philosophy Vol: 26(2): pp. 183-189.
- Shea, N. (2011), 'New concepts can be learned’, review essay on Susan Carey, The Origin of Concepts. Biology & Philosophy. 26: 129-139.
- Shea, N. (2011), 'Acquiring a new concept is not explicable-by-content', Behavioral and Brain Sciences Vol: 34(3): pp. 148-149.
- Shea, N. (2011), 'Developmental Systems Theory Formulated as a Claim About Inherited Information', Philosophy of Science Vol: 78(1): pp. 60-82. [open access]
- Foddy, B. (2011), 'Addicted to food, hungry for drugs', Neuroethics Vol: 4(2): pp. 79-89.
- Powell, R. and Buchanan, A. (2011), 'Breaking Evolution's Chains: The Prospect of Deliberate Genetic Modification in Humans' Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Vol: 36(1): pp. 6-27
- Powell, R. and Buchanan, A. (2011), 'Breaking Evolution's Chains: The Prospect of Deliberate Genetic Modification in Humans' Re-printed in Briefing Book for the U.S. Presidential Commission for Bioethics, 2010
- Savulescu, J. and Finn, A. (2011), "Is Immunisation Child Protection?" The Lancet Series Vol: early online 9 June. [open acess]
- Levy, N. (2011), 'Searle's Wager', AI and Society, Vol: online advance [open access]
- Kahane, G. (2011), 'Evolutionary Debunking Arguments', Noûs, Vol 45(1) pp. 103–125, [open access]
- Levy, N. (2011), 'Neuroethics: A new way of doing ethics', AJOB Neuroscience, Vol: 2(2) pp. 3-9 [open access]
- Levy, N. (2011), 'Response to Open Peer Commentaries: Neuroethics: A new way of doing ethics', AJOB Neuroscience, Vol: 2(2) pp. W1-W4 [open access]
- Kahane, G. (2011), 'Disability: A Welfarist Approach', Clinical Ethics, Vol: 6(1) pp. 45-51 [open access]
- Kahane, G., Wiech, K., Shackel, N., Farias, M., Savulescu, J. and Tracey, I. (2011), 'The Neural Basis of Intuitive and Counterintuitive Moral Judgement', Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Vol: online advanced access [open access]
- Wilkinson, D. and Savulescu, J. (2011), 'Knowing when to stop: futility in the ICU', Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, Vol: 24(2) pp. 160-165
- Levy, N. (2011), 'Resisting Weakness of the Will', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol: 82 (1) pp. 134-155
Book Chapters
- Levy, N. (2011), 'Free Will and the Sciences of the Mind.' in G. Oppy and N. Trakakis (Eds) The Antipodean Philosopher, (Plymouth: Lexington Books)
- Levy, N. (2011), 'Addiction, Responsibility and Ego-Depletion', in J. Poland and G. Graham (Eds) Addiction and Responsibility, (MIT Press)
- Levy, N. and McGuire, j. (2011), 'Cognitive Enhancement and Intuitive Dualism', in R. Langdon and C. Mackenzie (Eds) Emotions, Imagination, and Moral Reasoning, (New York: Psychology Press)
- Levy, N. (2011), 'Luck and Free Will', in J. Aguilar, A. Buckareff and K. Frankish (Eds) New Waves in Philosophy of Action, (Palgrave-MacMillan)
- Levy, N. (2011), 'Neuroethics and the Extended Mind', in J. Illes and B. Sahakian (Eds) The Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics, (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
- Sandberg, A. (2011), 'Cognition Enhancement: Upgrading the Brain', in J. Savulescu, R. ter Meulen and G. Kahane (Eds) Enhancing Human Capacities, (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell) pp. 71-91
- Sandberg, A., Sinnott-Armstrong, W. and Savulescu, J. (2011), 'Cognitive Enhancement in Courts', in J. Illes and B. J. Sahakian (Eds) Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics, (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
- Kahane, G., Savulescu, J. and Ter Meulen, R. (2011), 'Preface', in G. Kahane, J. Savulescu and R. Ter Meulen (Eds) Enhancing Human Capacities, (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell)
- Sandberg, A. and Savulescu, J. (2011), 'The Social and Economic Impacts of Cognitive Enhancement', in J. Savulescu, R. Ter Meulen and G. Kahane (Eds) Enhancing Human Capacities, (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell) pp. 92-113
- Persson, I. and Savulescu, J. (2011), 'Unfit for the Future? Human Nature, Scientific Progress, and the Need for Moral Enhancement', in J. Savulescu, R. ter Meulen and G. Kahane (Eds) Enhancing Human Capacities (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell)
- Foddy, B. (2011), 'Enhancing Skill', in J. Savulescu, R. ter Meulen and G. Kahane (Eds) Enhancing Human Capacities, (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell)
- Savulescu, J. and Foddy, B. (2011), 'Le Tour and Failure of Zero Tolerance: Time to Relax Doping Controls', in J. Savulescu, R. ter Meulen and G. Kahane (Eds) Enhancing Human Capacities, (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell)
- Douglas, T. (2011), 'Moral Enhancement', in R. t. Meulen, J. Savulescu and G. Kahane (Eds) Enhancing Human Capacities (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell)
- Savulescu, J., Sandberg, A. and Kahane, G. (2011), 'Enhancement and Well-being', in J. Savulescu, R. ter Meulen and G. Kahane (Eds.) Enhancing Human Capacities,Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell pp. 3-18
- Savulescu, J., Sandberg, A. and Kahane, G. (2011), 'Reasons to Feel, Reasons to Take Pills', in J. Savulescu, R. ter Meulen and G. Kahane (Eds.) Enhancing Human Capacities,Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell pp. 166-178
- Arinaminpathy, N., Savulescu, J. and McLean, A. (2011), 'Effective Use of a Limited Antiviral Stockpile for Pandemic Influenza', in M. J.Selgelid, A. McLean, N. Arinaminpathy and J. Savulescu (Eds.) Infectious Disease Ethics: Limiting Liberty in Contexts of Contagion, Springer
- Savulescu, J. (2011), 'Genetically Modified Animals: Should There be Limits to Engineering the Animal Kingdom?' in T. Beauchamp and R. Frey (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Animals and Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Selgelid, M. J., McLean, A., Arinaminpathy, N. and Savulescu, J. (2011), 'Introduction', in M. J.Selgelid, A. McLean, N. Arinaminpathy and J. Savulescu (Eds.) Infectious Disease Ethics: Limiting Liberty in Contexts of Contagion, Springer
- Clarke, S. (2011), 'Cognitive Bias and Collective Enhancement', in J. Savulescu, R. T. Meulen and G. Kahane (Eds.) Enhancing Human Capacities, Oxford: Blackwell pp. 127-137