Faculty of Philosophy
Oxford is one of the world's great centres for philosophy. More than one hundred and fifty professional philosophers work in the University and its colleges, between them covering a vast range of subjects within philosophy. Many are international leaders in their fields. The Faculty of Philosophy is one of the largest departments of philosophy in the world, and is widely recognized to be amongst the best.
Its reputation draws many distinguished visiting philosophers; each year around fifty philosophers from around the world give lectures or seminars in Oxford. Almost every major philosopher speaks in Oxford at some time.
Each year, more than five hundred undergraduates are admitted to study philosophy in Oxford, always in combination with another subject. The Faculty also has more than a hundred graduate students, who are either taking a taught graduate degree or working for a doctorate.
Oxford is a collegiate university, and every registered student becomes a member of one of the colleges. In this way, he or she has access, not only to the very extensive libraries and facilities of the University, but also to the varied and more intimate life of a college. Colleges offer their students excellent libraries and facilities of their own.
Teaching at Oxford is by lectures and seminars, and by tutorials or supervisions. Courses of lectures and seminars are offered on a very large range of topics, for both undergraduates and graduates. Tutorials are a special feature of Oxford; undergraduates receive regular and frequent tutorials either individually or in pairs from members of the Faculty. All graduate students also receive frequent individual supervisions.
Oxford University dates from the 12th Century or before. The first colleges were founded in the 13th Century. The ancient buildings remain, mingled with magnificent architecture from subsequent centuries, to make Oxford one of the most inspiring and beautiful cities in the world. Within this setting, Oxford remains at the forefront of philosophy.
Series associated with Faculty of Philosophy
2013 Carnegie-Uehiro-Oxford Ethics Conference: Happiness and Well-Being
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures
Bio-Ethics Bites
David Hume (2018)
Ethics in AI
Euthydemus - Platonic Dialogue
From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops
General Philosophy
General Philosophy (2018)
Global Poverty: Philosophical Questions
Hume's Central Principles
Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One
John Locke Lectures in Philosophy
Journal of Practical Ethics
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Metaphor: Philosophical Issues
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature
Philosophical perspectives on the causes of mental illness
Philosophy - Ethics of the New Biosciences
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy Special Lectures
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies
Practical Ethics Bites
Reid's Critique of Hume
Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment
Science and Religious Conflict Conference
The View from Above: Structure, Emergence, and Causation
Thinking Out Loud: leading philosophers discuss topical global issues
Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Uehiro Lectures: Practical solutions for ethical challenges
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| 1 | The Risks of Coronavirus Contact Tracing Apps | Katrien Devolder interviews Associate Professor Carissa Véliz. | Carissa Véliz | 24 Sep 2020 | |
| 2 | Why Parental Status Matters When Allocating Scarce Medical Resources | Katrien Devolder interviews Moti Gorin. | Moti Gorin | 24 Sep 2020 | |
| 3 | Creative Commons | General Philosophy 2018 Handouts | PDF handouts to accompany Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. | Peter Millican | 23 Jun 2020 |
| 4 | Creative Commons | General Philosophy 2018 Slides | PDF slides to accompany Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. | Peter Millican | 23 Jun 2020 |
| 5 | Creative Commons | GenPhil 2018/8: God and Morality | Lecture 8 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. | Peter Millican | 23 Jun 2020 |
| 6 | Creative Commons | GenPhil 2018/7: Free Will and Responsibility | Lecture 7 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. | Peter Millican | 23 Jun 2020 |
| 7 | Creative Commons | GenPhil 2018/6: Identity, Self-Interest, Free Will | Lecture 6 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. | Peter Millican | 23 Jun 2020 |
| 8 | Creative Commons | GenPhil 2018/5: The Mind, and Personal Identity | Lecture 5 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. | Peter Millican | 23 Jun 2020 |
| 9 | Creative Commons | GenPhil 2018/4: Facing Up to Scepticism | Lecture 4 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. | Peter Millican | 23 Jun 2020 |
| 10 | Creative Commons | GenPhil 2018/3: Scepticism and Induction | Lecture 3 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. | Peter Millican | 23 Jun 2020 |
| 11 | Creative Commons | GenPhil 2018/2: Matter, Mind, and Humanity | Lecture 2 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. | Peter Millican | 23 Jun 2020 |
| 12 | Creative Commons | GenPhil 2018/1: Historical Introduction | Lecture 1 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. | Peter Millican | 23 Jun 2020 |
| 13 | Choosing Now for Later: Precedent Autonomy and Problem of Surrogate Decision-Making After Severe Brain Injury | Recording of the New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar on surrogate decision-making after severe brain injury. | Mackenzie Graham, Doug McConnell | 19 Jun 2020 | |
| 14 | Creative Commons | Past the Peak of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Triage of Non-Covid-19 patients | Katrien Devolder interviews Dominic Wilkinson. | Dominic Wilkinson | 01 Jun 2020 |
| 15 | Creative Commons | Hume 2018 Handouts | PDF handouts to accompany Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. | Peter Millican | 21 May 2020 |
| 16 | Creative Commons | Hume 2018 Slides | PDF slides to accompany Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. | Peter Millican | 21 May 2020 |
| 17 | Creative Commons | Hume 2018/8: Sceptical Crisis and Second Thoughts | Lecture 8 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. | Peter Millican | 21 May 2020 |
| 18 | Creative Commons | Hume 2018/7: Scepticism about Body, Soul and Self | Lecture 7 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. | Peter Millican | 21 May 2020 |
| 19 | Creative Commons | Hume 2018/6: Causal Interpretation, to Scepticism | Lecture 6 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. | Peter Millican | 21 May 2020 |
| 20 | Creative Commons | Hume 2018/5: Probability and the Idea of Necessity | Lecture 5 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. | Peter Millican | 21 May 2020 |
| 21 | Creative Commons | Hume 2018/4: Induction and Belief | Lecture 4 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. | Peter Millican | 21 May 2020 |
| 22 | Creative Commons | Hume 2018/3: Faculties and Relations, to Causation | Lecture 3 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. | Peter Millican | 21 May 2020 |
| 23 | Creative Commons | Hume 2018/2: Ideas, Impressions, and Abstraction | Lecture 2 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. | Peter Millican | 21 May 2020 |
| 24 | Creative Commons | Hume 2018/1: Hume’s Background and Chief Aims | Lecture 1 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. | Peter Millican | 21 May 2020 |
| 25 | Creative Commons | Medically Assisted Dying in Canada: from where we’ve come; to where we’re heading | In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Professor Arthur Schafer outlines the current contours of the Canadian euthanasia debate. | Arthur Schafer | 11 May 2020 |
| 26 | Creative Commons | Is it Permissible for Healthcare Workers to Stop Working if They Lack PPE? | Katrien Devolder interviews Udo Schüklenk. | Udo Schuklenk, Katrien Devolder | 23 Apr 2020 |
| 27 | Creative Commons | How the Coronavirus Pandemic Exacerbates Existing Inequalities | An interview with Dr Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra. | Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, Katrien Devolder | 21 Apr 2020 |
| 28 | Creative Commons | Triage in an Italian ICU During the Coronavirus Pandemic | An interview with Dr Marco Vergano. | Marco Vergano, Katrien Devolder | 20 Apr 2020 |
| 29 | Creative Commons | Tackling the Cause of the Coronavirus Pandemic | An interview with Professor Peter Singer. | Peter Singer, Katrien Devolder | 20 Apr 2020 |
| 30 | Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective | In this talk, Neil Armstrong uses ethnographic material of NHS mental healthcare to raise some questions about autonomy, risk and personal and institutional responsibility. | Neil Armstrong | 17 Feb 2020 | |
| 31 | 3f. Values and AI: view from public policy | Jo Wolff and Vafa Ghazavi, Blavatnik School of Government, gives the sixth and final talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. | Jo Wolff, Vafa Ghazavi | 10 Feb 2020 | |
| 32 | 3e. AI and business | Alan Morrison, Saïd Business School, gives the fifth talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. | Alan Morrison | 10 Feb 2020 | |
| 33 | 3d. AI and finance | Nir Vulkan, Saïd Business School, gives the fourth talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. | Nir Vulkan | 10 Feb 2020 | |
| 34 | 3c. Population health and AI: efficiency, accuracy and trust | Angeliki Kerasidou, Ethox Centre, gives the third talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. | Angeliki Kerasidou | 10 Feb 2020 | |
| 35 | 3b. AI in healthcare | Claire Bloomfield, National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging, gives the second talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. | Claire Bloomfield | 10 Feb 2020 | |
| 36 | 3a. Rethinking ethics and humanities for the 21st Century | Mike Parker, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities gives the first talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. | Mike Parker | 10 Feb 2020 | |
| 37 | 2e. Artificial Intelligence and the news | Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, gives the fifth talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019). | Rasmus Kleis Nielsen | 27 Jan 2020 | |
| 38 | 2d. Computational propaganda | Video Narayanan, Oxford Internet Institute, | Video Narayanan | 27 Jan 2020 | |
| 39 | 2c. Use, users and the social context for AI | Gina Neff, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the third talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019). | Gina Neff | 27 Jan 2020 | |
| 40 | 2b. Capital, labour and power in the age of automation | Carl Benedikt Frey gives the second talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019). | Carl Benedikt Frey | 27 Jan 2020 | |
| 41 | 2a. AI Governance and Ethics | Allan Dafoe and Carina Prunkl, Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy give the first talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019). | Allan Dafoe, Carina Prunkl | 27 Jan 2020 | |
| 42 | A discussion of ethical challenges posed by AI, involving experts from fields across Oxford - Seminar 1 | An introduction by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt; The place of Ethics in AI, AI Ethics and legal regulation, Ethics of AI in healthcare | Tom Douglas, Carissa Véliz, Vicki Nash, Sandra Wachter | 20 Jan 2020 | |
| 43 | Creative Commons | Hornless Cattle - is Gene Editing the Best Solution? | In this talk, Prof. Peter Sandøe argues that, from an ethical viewpoint, gene editing is the best solution to produce hornless cattle. There are, however, regulatory hurdles. | Peter Sandøe | 02 Dec 2019 |
| 44 | Creative Commons | Blockchain, consent and prosent for medical research | Respecting patients' autonomy is increasingly important in the digital age, yet researchers have raised concerns over the barriers of access to medical data useful for data-driven medical research. | Sebastian Porsdam Mann | 13 Nov 2019 |
| 45 | 1h. Ethics of AI in healthcare | Jess Morley, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the eigth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. | Jess Morley | 11 Nov 2019 | |
| 46 | 1g. Ethics and AI at the Oxford Big Data Institute | Gil McVean, Big Data Institute, gives the seventh talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. | Gil McVean | 11 Nov 2019 | |
| 47 | 1f. Re-uniting ethics and the law for AI | Brent Mittelstadt, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the sixth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. | Brent Mittelstadt | 11 Nov 2019 | |
| 48 | 1e. When AI disrupts the law | Sandra Wachter, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the fifth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. | Sandra Wachter | 11 Nov 2019 | |
| 49 | 1d. AI ethics and legal regulation | Vicki Nash, Oxford Internet Institute gives the fourth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. | Vicki Nash | 11 Nov 2019 | |
| 50 | 1c. AI-ethics research at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy | Tom Douglas, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy gives the third talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. | Tom Douglas | 11 Nov 2019 | |
| 51 | 1b. The place of philosophy in the ethics of AI | Carissa Véliz, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, gives the second talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. | Carissa Véliz | 11 Nov 2019 | |
| 52 | 1a. Background and Aims of the Institute for Ethics in AI | Nigel Shadbolt, Principal of Jesus College, Department of Computer Science, gives the first talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. | Nigel Shadbolt | 11 Nov 2019 | |
| 53 | Creative Commons | Genetic Selection and Enhancement | Professor Julian Savulescu and Dr Katrien Devolder discuss the use of genetic testing to select which children to bring into the world. | Julian Savulescu, Katrien Devolder | 04 Nov 2019 |
| 54 | Creative Commons | 2019 Uehiro Lectures (3/3): Improving Political Discourse (2): Communicating moral concern beyond blaming and shaming | Lies, propaganda, and fake news have hijacked political discourse, distracting the electorate from engaging with the global problems we face. These Uehiro Lectures suggest a pathway for democratic institutions to devise solutions to the problems we face t | Elizabeth Anderson | 17 Oct 2019 |
| 55 | Creative Commons | 2019 Uehiro Lectures (2/3): Improving Political Discourse (1): Re-learning how to talk about facts across group identities | Lies, propaganda, and fake news have hijacked political discourse, distracting the electorate from engaging with the global problems we face. These Uehiro Lectures suggest a pathway for democratic institutions to devise solutions to the problems we face t | Elizabeth Anderson | 17 Oct 2019 |
| 56 | Creative Commons | 2019 Uehiro Lectures (1/3): What Has Gone Wrong? Populist politics and the mobilization of fear and resentment | Lies, propaganda, and fake news have hijacked political discourse, distracting the electorate from engaging with the global problems we face. These Uehiro Lectures suggest a pathway for democratic institutions to devise solutions to the problems we face. | Elizabeth Anderson | 17 Oct 2019 |
| 57 | From Eugenics to Human Gene Editing: Engineering Life in China in a Global Context | In November 2018, a Chinese scientist announced the birth of the world’s first gene-edited babies and sparked outrage across the world. Professor Nie considers how China's complex socio-ethical approach paved the way for this controversial experiment. | Jing-Bao Nie | 07 Oct 2019 | |
| 58 | Creative Commons | Freedom of Political Communication, Propaganda and the Role of Epistemic Institutions in Cyberspace | Professor Seumas Miller defines fake news, hate speech and propaganda, discusses the relationship between social media and political propaganda. | Seumas Miller | 20 Jun 2019 |
| 59 | One Minute in Haditha: Neuroscience, Emotion and Military Ethics | In this special lecture, Professor Mitt Regan discusses the latest research in moral perception and judgment, and the potential implications of this research for ethics education in general and military ethics training in particular. | Mitt Regan | 19 Jun 2019 | |
| 60 | Creative Commons | Religion, War and Terrorism | In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Professor Tony Coady argues that religion does not have an inherent tendency towards violence, including particularly war and terrorism. | Professor Tony Coady | 01 May 2019 |
| 61 | Creative Commons | The Ethics of Stress, Resilience, and Moral Injury Among Police and Military Personnel | Professor Seumas Miller sets out how the use of lethal and coercive forces may erode moral character and cause moral injury. | Seumas Miller | 26 Mar 2019 |
| 62 | Is there a Moral Problem with the Gig Economy? | Is 'gig work' exploitative and injust? In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Daniel Halliday examines the common concerns from an ethical perspective. | Daniel Halliday | 04 Mar 2019 | |
| 63 | Creative Commons | The Salvation Agenda: The Politics of Medical Humanitarianism During Zimbabwe's Cholera Outbreak 2008/09 | In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Simukai Chigudu examines the humanitarian politics of responding to the most catastrophic cholera outbreak in African history. | Simukai Chigudu | 12 Feb 2019 |
| 64 | Creative Commons | Rationing antibiotics in the face of drug resistance: ethical challenges, principles and pathways | Practical medical ethics symposium: Rationing responsibly in an age of austerity | Christian Munthe | 22 Nov 2018 |
| 65 | Allocating organs: the US approach | Practical medical ethics symposium: Rationing responsibly in an age of austerity. | Thaddeus Mason Pope | 22 Nov 2018 | |
| 66 | Creative Commons | Cost-equivalence: rethinking treatment allocation | Practical medical ethics symposium: Rationing responsibly in an age of austerity | Julian Savulescu | 22 Nov 2018 |
| 67 | Creative Commons | Moralising medicine: is it ethical to allocate treatment based on responsibility for illness? | Practical medical ethics symposium: Rationing responsibly in an age of austerity | Rebecca Brown | 22 Nov 2018 |
| 68 | Creative Commons | Allocating intensive care beds and balancing ethical values | Practical medical ethics symposium: Rationing responsibly in an age of austerity | Dominic Wilkinson | 22 Nov 2018 |
| 69 | Political Bioethics | How should members of a liberal democratic political community, open to value pluralism, decide bioethical issues that generate deep disagreement? | Benjamin Gregg | 06 Nov 2018 | |
| 70 | Global Legal Epidemiology: Developing a Science Around Whether, When and How International Law Can Address Global Challenges | Professor Steven Hoffman discusses legal mechanisms available for coordinating international responses to transnational problems, their prospects, and their challenges. | Steven J Hoffman | 23 Oct 2018 | |
| 71 | Fake News and the Politics of Truth | Fake news spread online is a clear danger to democratic politics. One aspect of that danger is obvious: it spreads misinformation. But other aspects, less often discussed, is that it also spreads confusion and undermines trust. | Michael Lynch | 08 Oct 2018 | |
| 72 | Minds Without Spines: Toward a More Comprehensive Animal Ethics | In this OUC-WEH Joint Seminar, Irina Mikhalevich argues that the moral status of invertebrate animals is often overlooked, and sets out why animal ethics should be more inclusive and comprehensive. | Irina Mikhalevich | 19 Jun 2018 | |
| 73 | Rethinking 'Disease': A Fresh Diagnosis and a New Philosophical Treatment | In this OUC-WEH Joint Seminar, Russell Powell explores the concept of 'disease' | Russell Powell | 19 Jun 2018 | |
| 74 | Cost-benefit analysis | In this special lecture, Professor Matt Adler argues that social welfare function is a better methodology than cost-benefit analysis. | Professor Matthew Adler | 11 Jun 2018 | |
| 75 | Sleep softly: Ethics, Schubert and the value of dying well | An inter-disciplinary collaboration on music, mortality and ethics. | Dominic Wilkinson | 08 Jun 2018 | |
| 76 | 2018 Annual Uehiro Lectures (3/3): Illness and Attitude | Lecture 3 of 3.Who we are depends in part on the social world in which we live. In these lectures I look at some consequences for three mental health problems, broadly construed: dementia, addiction, and psychosomatic illness. | Richard Holton | 05 Jun 2018 | |
| 77 | 2018 Annual Uehiro Lectures (2/3): Addiction, Desire and the Polluted Environment | Lecture 2 of 3. Who we are depends in part on the social world in which we live. In these lectures I look at some consequences for three mental health problems, broadly construed: dementia, addiction, and psychosomatic illness. | Richard Holton | 05 Jun 2018 | |
| 78 | 2018 Annual Uehiro Lectures (1/3): Dementia and the Social Scaffold of Memory | Lecture 1 of 3. Who we are depends in part on the social world in which we live. In these lectures I look at some consequences for three mental health problems, broadly construed: dementia, addiction, and psychosomatic illness. | Richard Holton | 05 Jun 2018 | |
| 79 | The Future of Mobility: How and why will we transport ourselves in the next decades | Digitisation has entered the mobility arena. The car has evolved from a mechanical device into a “data producing embedded software platform”, and the internet is quickly linking the supply and demand to effectively fulfil our transport needs. | Carlo van de Weijer | 21 May 2018 | |
| 80 | Modal Epistemology and the Formal Identity of Intellect and Object | A defence of the Formal Identity Thesis and of the immateriality of the human intellect, based on specifically epistemological arguments about our knowledge of necessary or essential truths, including especially essential truths about value. | Robert Koons | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 81 | Hylomorphism, natural science, mind and God | Howard Robinson argues that the early moderns were right to think that Aristotelian or scholastic hylomorphism was inconsistent with modern science. | Howard Robinson | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 82 | Dependent Powerful Qualities and Grounded Downward Causation | David Yates argues that some physically realised qualitative properties have their causal roles solely in virtue of being the qualities they are, and not in virtue of the powers bestowed by their physical realizers on a given occasion. | David yates | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 83 | A Biologically Informed Hylomorphism | Utilising recent advances in developmental biology, Christopher Austin argues that the hylomorphic framework is an empirically adequate and conceptually rich explanatory schema with which to model the nature of organisms. | Christopher J Austin | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 84 | Hylomorphic Structure, Emergence, and Supervenience | William Jaworski argues why the hylomorphic structure is the best (and perhaps only) thing that can explain the persistence of individuals that change their matter over time. | William Jaworski | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 85 | Brain-machine interfaces and the translation of thought into action | In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Dr Tom Buller reflects on the causal relationship between movement goals and bodily awareness and challenges the idea that BMI-enabled movement and intentional bodily movement are equal actions. | Tom Buller | 19 Feb 2018 | |
| 86 | Creative Commons | Collective inaction and group-based ignorance | In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Anne Schwenkebecher discusses morally wrongful collective inaction and the problem of group-based ignorance. | Anne Schwekenbecher | 06 Feb 2018 |
| 87 | 2017 Annual Uehiro Lecture (3/3) Obligations to the Needy: Some Empirical Worries and Uncomfortable Philosophical Possibilities | In this final lecture, Professor Temkin considers possible negative impacts of global efforts to aid the needy, and reviews the main claims and arguments of all three Lectures | Larry Temkin | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 88 | 2017 Annual Uehiro Lecture (2/3) Obligations to the Needy: Singer’s Pond Example versus Supporting International Aid Organizations—Some Disanalogies and Their Normative Significance | In this second lecture, Professor Temkin considers some disanalogies between saving a drowning child and giving to an aid organization, and discusses the issues of corruption and poor governance. | Larry Temkin | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 89 | 2017 Annual Uehiro Lecture (1/3) Obligations to the Needy: Effective Altruism, Pluralism, and Singer’s Pond Example | In this first lecture, Larry Temkin explores different philosophical approaches to aiding the needy, and how they may fit with Peter Singer's famous Pond Example thought experiment. | Larry Temkin | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 90 | Sacred Values and the Sanctity of Life | OUC-Ethox Seminar. Steve Clarke discusses Ronald Dworkin's account of sacred values in his work 'Life's Dominion' and furthers the argument that the assertion 'life is sacred' is tenable by both liberals and conservatives. | Steve Clarke | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 91 | On Moral Experts | A St Cross Special Ethics Seminar. Professor John-Stewart Gordon focusses on the question of whether moral experts must follow their own expert advice in order to remain experts. | John-Stewart Gordon | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 92 | 2015 Uehiro Lectures: Reasons to Worry | The second of the three 2015 Annual Uehiro Lectures 'Why Worry About Future Generations'. Why should we care about what happens to human beings in the future, after we ourselves are long gone? | Samuel Scheffler | 06 Nov 2017 | |
| 93 | 2015 Uehiro Lectures: Conservatism, Temporal Bias, and Future Generations | The last of the three 2015 Annual Uehiro Lectures 'Why Worry About Future Generations'. Why should we care about what happens to human beings in the future, after we ourselves are long gone? | Samuel Scheffler | 06 Nov 2017 | |
| 94 | 2015 Uehiro Lectures: Temporal Parochialism and Its Discontents | The first of the three 2015 Annual Uehiro Lectures 'Why Worry About Future Generations'. Why should we care about what happens to human beings in the future, after we ourselves are long gone? | Samuel Scheffler | 06 Nov 2017 | |
| 95 | 2016 Annual Uehiro Lecture 1: Consequentialism for Cows | Professor Shelly Kagan delivers the first of three Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics, ‘How to Count Animals, More or Less’ | Shelly Kagan | 06 Nov 2017 | |
| 96 | 2016 Annual Uehiro Lecture 2: Deontology for Dogs | Professor Shelly Kagan delivers the second of three Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics, ‘How to Count Animals, More or Less’ | Shelly Kagan | 06 Nov 2017 | |
| 97 | 2016 Annual Uehiro Lecture 3: Foundation for Frogs | Professor Shelly Kagan delivers the final of three Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics, ‘How to Count Animals, More or Less’ | Shelly Kagan | 06 Nov 2017 | |
| 98 | Creative Commons | 2014 Uehiro Lecture (3): The Question of Legal Rights for Animals | In these lectures I will raise some fundamental questions about the moral and legal standing of the other animals: the basis of our moral obligations to them, and whether it makes sense to think that animals might have legal rights. | Christine M. Korsgaard | 24 Aug 2017 |
| 99 | Creative Commons | 2014 Uehiro Lecture (2): The Moral Standing of Animals | In these lectures I will raise some fundamental questions about the moral and legal standing of the other animals: the basis of our moral obligations to them, and whether it makes sense to think that animals might have legal rights. | Christine M. Korsgaard | 24 Aug 2017 |
| 100 | Creative Commons | 2014 Uehiro Lecture (1): Animals, Human Beings, and Persons | In these lectures I will raise some fundamental questions about the moral and legal standing of the other animals: the basis of our moral obligations to them, and whether it makes sense to think that animals might have legal rights. | Christine M. Korsgaard | 24 Aug 2017 |
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