Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminars
Melissa Ganz (Marquette University, LSR Visiting Faculty Fellow): "'A Kind of Insanity in My Spirits': Frankenstein, Childhood, and Criminal Intent"
Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Virtual (all times listed for virtual events are ET)
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Melissa Ganz
Marquette University, UCHV Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow
Luara Ferracioli (University of Sydney, LSR Visiting Faculty Fellow): "The Right to Parent and Moral Commitment"
Wed, Oct 6, 2021, 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Location:
Virtual (all times listed for virtual events are ET)
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Luara Ferracioli
University of Sydney, UCHV Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow)
Nir Eyal (Henry Rutgers Professor of Bioethics, Rutgers University): "Luck-Egalitarian Priority for the Imprudent"
Wed, Apr 14, 2021, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Director of the Rutgers Center for Population-Level Bioethics
Ketan Ramakrishnan (University of Oxford and Yale Law School): "Deontology Over Time"
Wed, Apr 7, 2021, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Ketan Ramakrishnan
University of Oxford and Yale Law School
Olivia Bailey (University of California, Berkeley): "Moral imperfection's moral upside? Empathy, humanity, and a problem for virtuous vision"
Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Olivia Bailey
University of California, Berkeley
Are Lockdowns Justified? Evaluating the costs and benefits
Mon, Dec 7, 2020, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Professor Olga Yakusheva, Director of Health Care Innovation Impact
University of Michigan School of Nursing
Professor Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Medicine
Stanford University
Dr. Michael Plant, post-doctoral Research Fellow
Wellbeing Research Centre
Pandemic Ethics: Should we make use of volunteers in human challenge trials?
Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Dr. Cristina Cassetti (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
Professor Richard Yetter Chappell (University of Miami)
Dr. Ben Bramble (Australian National University)
Lena Jewler (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
A Discussion with Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno (University of Pennsylvania): "Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America" (CANCELED)
Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Joe Horton (UCL): "New and Improvable Lives" (CANCELED)
Wed, Apr 1, 2020, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library, Room 120
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Ira W DeCamp Bioethics Seminar: Nicholas Southwood (Australian National University) (CANCELED)
Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library, Room 120
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Nicholas Southwood
Australian National University
Gustaf Arrhenius (Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm): "Population Ethics under Risk" (CANCELED)
Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library, Room 120
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Tamar Schapiro (MIT): “What Makes Weak-Willed Acton Weak?”
Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library, Room 120
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Tamar Schapiro
MIT
Michael Rabenberg (Princeton University): "Imprecision in the Ethics of Rescue"
Wed, Nov 20, 2019, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library, Room 120
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Alejandra Mancilla (University of Oslo): "Decolonizing Antarctica"
Wed, Nov 13, 2019, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library, Room 120
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
"Is Population Growth a Problem: If so, What Would Be an Ethical Response?"
Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Friend Center, Room 101
Theron Pummer (University of St. Andrews): "Rescue, Cost and Numbers"
Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library, Room 120
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
University of St. Andrews
The Challenge to 'Brain Death': Are We Taking Organs From Living Human Beings, and If We Are, Does it Matter?
Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Location:
McCosh Hall, Room 50
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminars: Guy Kahane (University of Oxford)
Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library, Room 120
Asheley Landrum (Texas Tech University): "Views, Values, & the Science of Science Communication"
Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library, Room 120
Eric Mathison (Baylor College of Medicine): "Autonomy, Enhancement, and the Goals of Medicine"
Wed, Dec 5, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library 120
Jessica Flanigan (University of Richmond): "The Ethics of Prenatal Injury"
Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Robertson Hall, Bowl 002
Sharon Bassan (Princeton University): "Surrogacy - On Reproductive Labor and Labor Law"
Wed, Oct 10, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library 120
Kristin Voight (McGill University): "Framing Health Problems: Epistemic Injustice, Medicalisation and Public Health"
Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library 120
Dan Moller (University of Maryland-College Park): "Redistribution and Self-ownership"
Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library, Room 138
David Shoemaker (Tulane University): "Disordered, Disregarded, Dismissed: Morality and Exemptions"
Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library, Room 138
David Velleman (New York University): "Non-identical and Impersonal"
Wed, Apr 4, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library, Room 138
Hanna Pickard (University of Birmingham): "Stop Telling Me How to Feel! A Clinical Theory of Emotions and What's Wrong with the Moralization of Feelings"
Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library, Room 138
Molly Gardner (Bowling Green State University): "Why the Numbers Don't Count, But the Reasons Do"
Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library 138
Comparisons Between Cognitively Disabled Human Beings and Non-human Animals: Do They Have a Role in Ethics?
Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location:
Lewis Library, 122
Eden Lin (Ohio State University): "Should We Respect the Past Desires of People with Dementia?"
Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library 138
Jan Krawitz (Stanford University, and documentary filmaker) "Perfect Strangers"
Wed, Nov 8, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Location:
Lewis Library 120
Richard Keshen (Cape Breton University): "Self-Esteem in Philosophy and Psychology Compared"
Wed, Oct 4, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Location:
Lewis Library 138
Eric Chwang (Rutgers University-Camden): "Commercial Surrogacy as Less Objectionable Baby-Selling"
Wed, Sep 27, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Robertson Hall Bowl 001
Dana Nelkin (University of California-San Diego): Frontotemporal Dementia and the Reactive Attitudes: Two Roles for the Capacity to Care?
Wed, Apr 19, 2017, 4:30 pm
Location:
Robertson Hall, Bowl 2
Coleen Macnamara (University of California-Riverside): "Blame Without Standing"
Wed, Mar 29, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Robertson Hall, Bowl 1
Would Legalizing the Sale of Organs Reduce the Organ Shortage Problem?
Wed, Mar 8, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Robertson Hall, Bowl 01
Speaker(s):
Andrew Michael Flescher
Forgiving, Forgetting, and Un-Forgiving: Monique Wonderly, Princeton University
Wed, Dec 7, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall
Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminar: "Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights"
Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Location:
McCormick 101
Symposium on Multidisciplinary Research in Effective Animal Advocacy
Sat, Nov 12, 2016, 9:00 am to Sun, Nov 13, 2016, 4:00 pm
Location:
The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, 86 Olden Street
Speaker(s):
Effective Altruism and Animals
Fri, Nov 11, 2016, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
McCosh Hall, Room 10
Speaker(s):
Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University
Jon Bockman, Executive Director, Animal Charity Evaluators
Kevin Wong, Student, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
Harish Sethu, Director, Humane League Labs
Allison Smith, Director of Research, Animal Charity Evaluators
Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminar: "Judging, Feeling, Thinking: From Trolleyology to Compositional Semantics"
Wed, Oct 5, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Robertson Hall, Bowl 1
Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminar: "Climate Ethics: Embracing Justice, Avoiding Extortion"
Wed, Sep 28, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Friend Center, Room 008
Speaker(s):
Stephen Gardiner, University of Washington-Seattle
Respondent: Dale Jamieson, New York University
Chair: Peter Singer, Princeton University
Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminar: "Should I Donate Now or Invest and Donate Later?"
Wed, Sep 21, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Friend Center, Room 101
Speaker(s):
Will MacAskill, University of Oxford
"Responsibility without Wrongdoing"
Wed, May 11, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall
Speaker(s):
Julie Tannenbaum
Pomona College
"Liberty, Threats and Ineligibility"
Wed, Apr 20, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall
Speaker(s):
Ralf Bader
University of Oxford
"The Great Spectrum Paradox"
Wed, Apr 13, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall
Speaker(s):
Caspar Hare
MIT
"Inequality in Political Philosophy and Epidemiology"
Wed, Mar 2, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall
Speaker(s):
Nir Eyal
Harvard University
"The Ethics of Social Research in the Digital Age"
Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall
Speaker(s):
Matt Salganik
Princeton University
"Why Procreators Have No Special Obligations"
Wed, Feb 17, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall
Speaker(s):
Nicholas Vrousalis
Princeton University
"Personhood, Ethics, and Cognition"
Wed, Dec 2, 2015, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall
Speaker(s):
Gary Varner
Texas A&M University