Uehiro Centre Latest News

2103 Annual Uehiro Lectures

2013-06-13 11:44:46

We are delighted to announce that Professor Thomas M Scanlon (Harvard University) is to deliver the 2013 public Uehiro Lecture Series in December

Videos: televised debates on 'enhancement'

2013-06-13 12:17:11

View online videos of Julian Savulescu discussing human enhancement technologies

Free resource now available: 'Ethics for the Future of Life'

2013-06-12 13:31:43

Conference Procedings of 2012 Uehiro-Carnegie-Oxford Ethics Conference are now freely available to download

IQ2 Debate: Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sport

2013-06-10 14:06:46

Is it OK for athletes to use performance enhancing drugs? Listen/watch latest IQ2 debate

Vacancy: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Psychology and Neuroscience of Altruism

2013-05-23 14:30:36

Applications are invited for a full-time Research Fellow position in the Psychology and Neuroscience of Altruism project

The Why Factor (BBC World Service)

2013-05-16 11:01:21

Disgust is something that we all experience, but what purpose does it serve? And what role does it play in our moral judgements?

SRC Book Launch

2013-05-28 11:52:09

All are warmly invited to attend an upcoming book launch 'Religion, Intolerance and Conflict: a Scientific and Conceptual Investigation'

Latest open access publication

2013-03-27 14:14:11

'Cold or Calculating? Reduced Activity in the Subgenual Cingulate Reflects Decreased Aversion to Harming in Counterintuitive Utilitarian Judgment' in Cognition

An ethical education: why Gonski is a moral issue

2013-04-11 11:02:29

Julian Savulescu and Will Isdale (former OUC visiting student) have written a piece on Australia's proposed schools funding reform in The Conversation

Oxford Uehiro-St Cross Visiting Student Scholarship

2013-03-21 10:49:27

Graduate students resident in Japan are invited to apply for a Visiting Student Scholarship Award for 2013-2014.

Wellcome Trust New Investigator Award

2013-03-11 10:53:18

Dr Tom Douglas (OUC Research Fellow) has been awarded a Wellcome Trust New Investigator Award.

Podcast: "Addicted to Love?"

2013-02-25 12:53:22

Julian Savulescu recently took part in an interview by 'The Naked Scientists' for a neuroscience podcast entitled "Addicted to Love?"

Press Release: new publication on withdrawal of life support from children

2013-02-14 09:35:22

More emphasis should be given to parents' needs when deciding whether or not to withdraw life support from children according to new book

New Scientist article on sleep enhancement

2013-02-04 14:35:00

Julian Savulescu interviewed for New Scientist magazine on new sleep-compressing technologies

The Case for Using Drugs to Enhance Our Relationships

2013-02-04 11:23:06

Read Brian Earp's interview for The Atlantic on the moral aspects of 'love drugs'

Times Higher Education: A truth should suffice

2013-01-29 13:32:05

In an article in today's Times Higher Education, David Edmonds discusses Edmund Gettier's three-page 1963 masterpiece

Astor Visiting Lecturer: Professor Jeff McMahan

2013-01-16 11:06:36

OUC is pleased to announce two public events by Astor Visiting Lecturer, Professor Jeff McMahan

Armstrong Confesses: Savulescu Response

2013-01-17 11:26:10

On the eve of his confession, he is apparently ruined. The International Cycling Union (UCI) has stripped Lance Armstrong of his titles.

New open access publication

2013-01-08 09:41:33

'Attitudes of Lay People to Withdrawal of Treatment in Brain Damaged Patients' by Jacob Gipson, Guy Kahane and Julian Savulescu

HT13 Seminar Series: Ethics and 21st Century Challenges

2013-01-07 11:23:41

Can we develop a common set of values to protect resources? Improve food yields without breaking ethical codes? Is there space for individual moral and legal responsibility on a technologically complex battlefield?

Propranolol article most discussed neuroscience paper of 2012

2013-01-07 12:40:45

'Propranolol reduces implicit negative racial bias' paper is ranked the #1 most widely discussed neuroscience article for 2012.

How The Light Gets In 2012: Enhancing Morality Video

2012-05-23 11:55:53

'Enhancing Morality' video from 'How The Light Gets In 2012' now available.