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
- 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.
- 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.
- Foddy, B. (2011), 'Addicted to food, hungry for drugs', Neuroethics Vol: 4(2): pp. 79-89.
- Hiruta, K., (2013), 'Book Review of Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times', Political Studies Review, Vol: 11(1): 77
- Kahane, G., (2011), 'The armchair and the trolley: an argument for experimental ethics', Philosophical Studies, Vol: Online first [open access]
- 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]
- Kahane, G. (2011), 'Should We Want God to Exist?' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol: 82(3): pp. 674-696. [open access]
- Kahane, G. and Chan, T. (2011), 'The trouble with being sincere', The Canadian Journal of Philosophy Vol: 41(2): pp. 215-234.
- Kahane, G. (2011), 'Disability: A Welfarist Approach', Clinical Ethics, Vol: 6(1) pp. 45-51 [open access]
- Kahane, G. (2011), 'Evolutionary Debunking Arguments', Noûs, Vol 45(1) pp. 103–125, [open access]
- Levy, N., (2011), 'Resisting Weakness of the Will', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol: 82 (1): 134-155 [open access]
- Levy, N., (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: 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.
- Levy, N. (2011), 'Resisting Weakness of the Will', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol: 82 (1) pp. 134-155
- Levy, N. (2011), 'Searle's Wager', AI and Society, Vol: online advance [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]
- 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
- 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]
- 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 [open access]
- Shea, N., (2011), 'Methodological Encounters with the Phenomenal Kind', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol: 84(2): 307-344. [open access]
- Savulescu, J. and Finn, A. (2011), "Is Immunisation Child Protection?" The Lancet Series Vol: early online 9 June. [open acess]
- 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), 'Should doctors feel more able to practise according to their personal values and beliefs?' Medical Journal of Australia, Vol: 196(1): 38
- Savulescu, J. (2011), 'JME Mach X: what will it offer you?' (editorial), Journal of Medical Ethics Vol: 37: pp. 453-454.
- Savulescu, J. and I. Persson. (2011), 'Getting moral enhancement right: the desirability of moral bioenhancement', Bioethics, Vol: online first 29 Jul 2011.
- 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) [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
Book Chapters
- 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
- 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
- Savulescu, J. and Wilkinson, D., (2011), 'Death Fiction and Taking Organs from the Living ' Organ and Tissue Donation, Vol 333 of Series Issues in Society, (Thirroul: The Spinney Press): p.34
- 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