Panel discussion - The Future of Humans. Moral Bioenhancement

The greatest problems of the 21st century - climate change, terrorism, poverty and global inequality, among others – are not the result of external threat, but predominantly the result of human cho

Q&A - The Future of Humans. Moral Bioenhancement

The greatest problems of the 21st century - climate change, terrorism, poverty and global inequality, among others – are not the result of external threat, but predominantly the result of human cho

Åsa Wikforss - The Future of Humans. Moral Bioenhancement

www.iffs.se Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Stockholm University. She is currently working with the research project Knowing One’s Own Thoughts. The greatest problems of the 21st centur

Main speaker: Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics A seminar on the use of medicine to improve moral behaviour and solve the greatest problems of the 21st century. The greatest problem

Chiara Cordelli: The Wrong of Capitalism Beyond Domination

Political philosophy is witnessing a revival of critiques of capitalism. Against those who argue that capitalism is unjust because of (i) its distributive outcomes, (ii) the oppression of workers at t

Doctoral thesis. KTH Royal Institute of Technology.ISBN 978-91 7595-341-0 Abstract Essay I explores brain machine interface (BMI) technologies. These make direct connection between the brain and a machi

Fish and Fisheries, Early view: doi:10.1111/faf.12197. Abstract A substantial amount of scientific effort goes into understanding and measuring compliance in fisheries. Understanding why, how and when f

Julian Savulescu - The Future of Humans. Moral Bioenhancement

www.iffs.se Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. His areas of research include the ethics of genetics, research ethics, medical ethics, sports ethics and the analy

Laura Valentini, Associate Professor of Political Science at London School of Economics ABSTRACTMany contemporary philosophers—of a broadly deontological disposition—believe that there exist some pre-i. In this paper, I defend this unpopular view. I argue that all rights are grounded in —namely, norms constituted by the collective acceptance of gives “oughts”—, provided the norms’ content meets some independent standards of moral acceptability. This view, I suggest, does justice to the relational nature of rights, by explaining how it is that right-holders acquire the authority to demand certain actions (or omissions) from duty-bearers. Furthermore, the view does not divest human beings of fundamental moral protections. Even if, absent some rights-grounding positive norms, obligations cannot be to others, we still have  (non-directed) placing constraints on how we may permissibly treat one Another.

Jules Holroyd, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Nottingham. ABSTRACTMany of us will have implicit racial biases: dispositions to certain affective or cognitive responses