A selection of seminars and special lectures on wide-ranging topics are related to the practical ethics. The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics was established in 2002 with the support of the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education of Japan. It is an integral part of the philosophy faculty of the Oxford University, one of the great centers of academic excellence in the philosophical ethics.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
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Course Credit: University of Oxford
Course Curriculum
| Module: 01 | |||
| Julian Savulescu’s Monash Distinguished Alumni | 00:03:00 | ||
| The Flipside of Scientific Freedom | 00:15:00 | ||
| Unfit for Life: Genetically Enhance Humanity of Face Extinction | 00:39:00 | ||
| Good Intentions and Political Life: Against Virtue Parsimony: St Cross Special Ethics Seminar | 01:01:00 | ||
| Hug me daddy I hate you: the ethical challenges of a C21 business | 00:49:00 | ||
| New Imaging Evidence for the Neural Bases of Moral Sentiments: Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviour | 01:05:00 | ||
| Prioritarianism, Levelling Down and Welfare Diffusion | 01:25:00 | ||
| Savulescu interview: Moral Enhancement | 00:23:00 | ||
| Human Rights vs Religion? | 00:33:00 | ||
| 2nd St Cross Special Ethics Seminar TT11: Museum Ethics | 00:54:00 | ||
| Bio-ethics Bites: Onora O’Neill on Trust | 00:18:00 | ||
| Module: 02 | |||
| 2nd St Cross Seminar MT11: Dr Margaret Yee | 00:50:00 | ||
| EU ban on hESC Patents: A Threat to Science and the Rule of Law | 00:53:00 | ||
| Foundations of Rights of Access to the Benefits of Science in International Law | 00:34:00 | ||
| St Cross Seminar HT12: Cooperation, altruism and cheating in micro-organisms | 01:02:00 | ||
| Lecture: Rumour, conspiracy theory and propaganda | 01:26:00 | ||
| The Ethics of Entertainment: a case study of Popular Cinema in China and India | 01:00:00 | ||
| Geoengineering: Science, politics and ethics | 00:59:00 | ||
| St Cross Seminar: Informing Egg Donors of the Potential for Embryonic Research | 01:01:00 | ||
| Philosophical Theory and the Justification of Terrorism | 01:30:00 | ||
| Counter-terrorism and its Ethical Hazards | 01:26:00 | ||
| Wellcome Lecture in Neuroethics | 00:58:00 | ||
| Module: 03 | |||
| Uehiro Seminar: The Ethics of Creating Designer Babies | 01:23:00 | ||
| The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement Debate 1: Abortion | 00:38:00 | ||
| The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement Debate 2: Euthanasia | 00:38:00 | ||
| The bad seed: facts and values in the study of childhood antisocial behaviour | 01:33:00 | ||
| 2012 Leverhulme Lecture 1: Some Problems about Religion in the Political Sphere: the dangers of instability and violence | 00:47:00 | ||
| 2012 Leverhulme Lecture 2: Reason, Religion and Public Discourse in a Liberal Democracy | 00:51:00 | ||
| 2012 Leverhulme Lecture 3: Religious Virtues, Democratic Virtues and their interaction in Practice | 00:51:00 | ||
| If I could just stop loving you: Anti-love drugs and the ethics of a chemical break-up | 00:40:00 | ||
| Uehiro Seminar: Sleep and Opportunity for Well-being | 00:42:00 | ||
| 1st St Cross Seminar HT13: Two Conceptions of Children’s Welfare | 01:20:00 | ||
| Module: 04 | |||
| Debate: The Value of Life | 01:02:00 | ||
| Uehiro Seminar: Psychopaths and responsibility | 00:52:00 | ||
| Uehiro Seminar: The Value of Uncertainty | 00:49:00 | ||
| Opening the Black Box: Examining the Deliberation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the UK and US; Second St Cross Special Ethics Seminar HT13 | 00:31:00 | ||
| Effective Philanthropy: How much good can we achieve? | 00:49:00 | ||
| Astor Keynote Lecture: What Rights May be Defended by Means of War? | 00:56:00 | ||
| Uehiro Seminar: Rescuing Responsibility from the Retributivists – Neuroscience, Free Will and Criminal Punishment | 00:41:00 | ||
| 1st St Cross Seminar TT13: Precarious (bio)ethics: research on poisoning patients in Sri Lanka | 00:40:00 | ||
| Uehiro Special Double Seminar: Enhancement | 01:56:00 | ||
| Uehiro Seminar: The current laws on drugs and alcohol – ineffective, dishonest and unethical? | 01:13:00 | ||
| Folk Psychology, the Reactive Attitudes and Responsibility | 00:52:00 | ||
| Module: 05 | |||
| 2nd St Cross Seminar TT13: Ethics In Finance: A New Financial Theory For A Post-Financialized World | 00:52:00 | ||
| Using Religion to Justify Violence | 00:36:00 | ||
| TT13 Uehiro Seminar: Attention, Action, and Responsibility | 01:26:00 | ||
| The Ethics of Infant Male Circumcision | 00:53:00 | ||
| Virtuous Climate Making? Towards a Virtue-Theoretic Approach to Geoengineering | 01:16:00 | ||
| Uehiro Seminar: Ethics and Expectations: Part II | 00:48:00 | ||
| St Cross Seminar: Neither God nor Nature. Could the doping sinner be an exemplar of human(ist) dignity? | 00:48:00 | ||
| Uehiro Seminar: The struggle between liberties and authorities in the information age | 00:38:00 | ||
| Uehiro Seminar: Cyborg justice: human enhancement and punishment | 00:59:00 | ||
| Uehiro Seminar: Do antidepressants work and if so how? | 00:49:00 | ||
| 2013 Wellcome Lecture in Neuroethics: The Irresponsible Self: Self bias changes the way we see the world | 00:33:00 | ||
| Module: 06 | |||
| St Cross Seminar: Genetic parenthood, assisted reproduction, and the values of parental love | 00:50:00 | ||
| Uehiro Seminar: Is Networking Immoral? | 00:46:00 | ||
| St Cross Seminar: “I wouldn’t have consented if I’d known that could happen”: Consenting without Understanding | 00:44:00 | ||
| St Cross Seminar: What counts as a placebo is relative to a target disorder and therapeutic theory: defending a modified version of Grünbaum’s scheme | 00:35:00 | ||
| Special Seminar: The enhancement debate: trusting emotion or trusting reason – a false dichotomy? | 00:44:00 | ||
| The Genetic Epidemiology of Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Disorders: Multiple Levels, Interactions and Causal Loops | 01:38:00 | ||
| The Dappled Causal World of Psychiatric Disorders: The Link Between the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders and Their Causal Complexity | 00:57:00 | ||
| Implicit Moral Attitudes | 00:46:00 | ||
| Bioethics and the Burden of Proof | 00:47:00 | ||
| St Cross Seminar: Natural Human Rights: A Theory | 00:59:00 | ||
| St Cross Seminar: Mere Practicality? Infants, interests and the value of life | 01:08:00 | ||
| Module: 07 | |||
| St Cross Seminar: On Swearing | 00:32:00 | ||
| 2015 Leverhulme Lecture (1): Self-Control: A problem of self-management | 00:39:00 | ||
| 2015 Leverhulme Lecture (2): The Science of Self-Control | 00:55:00 | ||
| 2015 Leverhulme Lecture (3): Marshmallows and Moderation | 00:52:00 | ||
| Brain Science and the Military | 00:47:00 | ||
| St Cross Seminar: The moral insignificance of self-consciousness | 00:39:00 | ||
| St Cross Seminar: The ‘New’ Guestworker? Rethinking the Ethics of Temporary Labour Migration Programme | 00:34:00 | ||
| Moral Conformity | 00:51:00 | ||
| St Cross Seminar: Justifications for Non-Consensual Medical Intervention: From Infectious Disease Control to Criminal Rehabilitation | 00:46:00 | ||
| 2015 Uehiro Lectures: Reasons to Worry | 01:01:00 | ||
| 2015 Uehiro Lectures: Conservatism, Temporal Bias, and Future Generations | 01:02:00 | ||
| Module: 08 | |||
| St Cross Seminar: Governing life: is it wrong to intervene in biological processes? | 00:25:00 | ||
| 2015 Uehiro Lectures: Temporal Parochialism and Its Discontents | 01:00:00 | ||
| Leverhulme Lecture 1: The Nature and the Significance of Implicit Bias | 00:55:00 | ||
| Leverhulme Lecture 2: Moral Responsibility and Implicit Bias | 01:00:00 | ||
| St Cross Seminar: Cognitive Enhancement: Defending the Parity Principle | 00:47:00 | ||
| St Cross Seminar: The role of therapeutic optimism in recruitment to a clinical trial: an empirical study | 00:49:00 | ||
| Parfitian Survival and Punishing Crimes from the Distant Past | 00:21:00 | ||
| Designing for conviviality | 00:23:00 | ||
| What if Kant were a designer? | 00:15:00 | ||
| Module: 09 | |||
| 2016 Annual Uehiro Lecture 1: Consequentialism for Cows | 00:56:00 | ||
| 2016 Annual Uehiro Lecture 2: Deontology for Dogs | 01:00:00 | ||
| 2016 Annual Uehiro Lecture 3: Foundation for Frogs | 00:59:00 | ||
| Uehiro-Carnegie-Oxford Lecture in Practical Ethics 2016 | 00:50:00 | ||
| No pain, no praise: motivational enhancement and the meaning of life | 00:18:00 | ||
| Homo reciprocans from Neuroscience: a limited reciprocity. A criticism from neuroethics | 00:20:00 | ||
| Moral Reasoning is Not Like a Dog’s Tail: A Critical Analysis of Social Intuitionism’s Two Illusions of Moral Deliberation | 00:18:00 | ||
| Can we Dissociate Reason from Feelings? Ten Critical Philosophical Questions to Greene’s Dual Process Theory | 00:18:00 | ||
| The New Problem of Personal Force in Morality | 00:22:00 | ||
| Neurointerventions to Prevent Crime and the Problem of Unjustified Incarceration | 00:25:00 | ||
| The Contribution of Neuroethics for Responsible Management Education | 00:22:00 | ||
| Module: 10 | |||
| Implicit Bias and Racism | 00:20:00 | ||
| The Neuroscience of Moral Agency (Or: How I Learned to Love Determinism and Still Respect Myself in the Morning) | 00:56:00 | ||
| Autism and Moral Responsibility: Executive Function and the Reactive Attitudes | 00:41:00 | ||
| Murder or a Legitimate Medical Procedure: the Withdrawal of Artificial Nutrition & Fluids from a Patient in a Persistent Vegetative Condition | 01:22:00 | ||
| Solving the Replication Crisis in Psychology: Insights from History and Philosophy of Science | 00:37:00 | ||
| Aiming for Moral Mediocrity | 00:44:00 | ||
| Double Seminar on Biomedical Technology and Moral Bioenhancement | 00:50:00 | ||
| On Moral Experts | 00:41:00 | ||
| Sacred Values and the Sanctity of Life | 00:40:00 | ||
| Collective inaction and group-based ignorance | 00:39:00 | ||
| Brain-machine interfaces and the translation of thought into action | 00:47:00 | ||
| Assessment | |||
| Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Certification | 00:00:00 | ||
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