Events Archive
"Intersectionality and the Language of Health Equity," Keisha Ray (McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics)
Wed, Apr 17, 2024, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Wooten Hall, Room 301
Free and Open to the Public
"Justice in Gestation and Moral Integrity: A Dilemma" Luara Ferracioli, University of Sydney
Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Laura Wooten Hall Room 301
Free and Open to the Public
"Is it morally wrong for a man to claim to be a woman?" Holly Lawford-Smith (University of Melbourne)
Wed, Dec 6, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Lewis Library, Room 120
Free and Open to the Public
Sharon Bassan (Drexel University): "How Women are Depicted when Reproductive Practices Get to Court"
Wed, Nov 1, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Laura Wooten Hall, Room 301 (Kerstetter Room)
Free and Open to the Public
Johann Frick (University of California, Berkeley): "The Value of Life, the Value of Virtue"
Wed, Sep 6, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Laura Wooten Hall, Room 301 (Kerstetter Room)
Free and Open to the Public
Hallie Liberto (University of Maryland): "Refusals, Commands, and the Scope of Discursive Injustice"
Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Wooten Hall, Room 301 (Kerstetter Room)
Free and Open to the Public
Matthew Liao (NYU): "The Role of Confidence in the Hard Problem of Addiction"
Wed, Mar 8, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Laura Wooten Hall, Room 301 (Kerstetter Room)
Free and Open to the Public
Quayshawn Spencer (University of Pennsylvania): “A metaphysical mapping problem for race theorists and human population geneticists” (in Remapping Race in a Global Context)
Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Laura Wooten Hall, Room 301 (Kerstetter Room)
Free and Open to the Public
Alexander Tolbert (University of Pennsylvania): "A Capabilities Approach to Causal Fairness in Machine Learning: Addressing Algorithmic Bias"
Wed, Feb 8, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
HYBRID - Laura Wooten Hall, Room 301 (Kerstetter Room) or via Zoom. Registration required for remote attendance.
Other
Ian Peebles (UCHV Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioethics): “A Modified Volitional Account of Racism and Its Use in Healthcare”
Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
HYBRID - Laura Wooten Hall, Room 301 (Kerstetter Room) or via Zoom. Registration required for remote attendance.
Other
Alex Broadbent (Durham University): "Was the Lockdown Racist?"
Wed, Nov 2, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
HYBRID - Laura Wooten Hall, Room 301 (Kerstetter Room) or via Zoom. Registration required for remote attendance.
Other
Jeff McMahan (University of Oxford): “Abortion, Prenatal Injury, and What Matters Across Alternative Possible Lives”
Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
HYBRID - Laura Wooten Hall, Room 301 (Kerstetter Room) or via Zoom. Registration required for remote attendance.
Other
Joe Horton (University College London): Evaluative Uncertainty (written with Jake Ross)
Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
HYBRID - Laura Wooten Hall, Room 301 (Kerstetter Room) or via Zoom. Registration required for remote attendance.
Other
Jeff McMahan (Oxford University): "Compensation for Wrongful Life"
Mon, May 2, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Robertson Hall, Bowl 1 - Due to current health protocols, open to PUID holders only.
Other
Matthew Liao (New York University, Center for Bioethics): Lives, Limbs, and Liver Spots: The Threshold Approach to Limited Aggregation
Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Robertson Hall, Bowl 001
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
CITP Seminar: Peter Singer and Yip Fai Tse- AI Ethics: The Case for Including Animals
Tue, Dec 7, 2021, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
Virtual
Speakers
- Peter SingerAffiliationPrinceton University
- Yip Fai TseAffiliationPrinceton University
Free and Open to the Public
Catherine Clune-Taylor (Princeton University): "Situating Empirical Evidence within the Ethics of Pediatric Intersex Management"
Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Robertson Hall, Bowl 2 (due to current health protocols, open to PUID holders only. VIRTUAL for the general public)
Speaker
Catherine Clune-Taylor
Affiliation
Princeton University
Other
Kathryn Paige Harden (University of Texas): "The Genetic Lottery and Its Ethical Implications"
Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Friend Center, Room 101 + Livestream (due to current health protocols, open to PUID holders only. Livestream for the general public)
Speaker
Kathryn Paige Harden
Affiliation
University of Texas
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Richard Yetter Chappell (University of Miami): "Pandemic Ethics and Status Quo Risk"
Wed, Nov 3, 2021, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Marx Hall, Room 301 (due to current health protocols, open to PUID holders only. VIRTUAL for the general public)
Speaker
Richard Yetter Chappell
Affiliation
University of Miami
Other
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 – 6:00 pm
Location
Virtual (all times listed for virtual events are ET)
Speaker
Melissa Ganz
Affiliation
Marquette University, UCHV Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow
Free and Open to the Public
Luara Ferracioli (University of Sydney, LSR Visiting Faculty Fellow): "The Right to Parent and Moral Commitment"
Wed, Oct 6, 2021, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Location
Virtual (all times listed for virtual events are ET)
Speaker
Luara Ferracioli
Affiliation
University of Sydney, UCHV Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow)
Free and Open to the Public
Nir Eyal (Henry Rutgers Professor of Bioethics, Rutgers University): "Luck-Egalitarian Priority for the Imprudent"
Wed, Apr 14, 2021, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Virtual
Speaker
Affiliation
Director of the Rutgers Center for Population-Level Bioethics
Free and Open to the Public
Ketan Ramakrishnan (University of Oxford and Yale Law School): "Deontology Over Time"
Wed, Apr 7, 2021, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Virtual
Speaker
Ketan Ramakrishnan
Affiliation
University of Oxford and Yale Law School
Free and Open to the Public
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 – 6:00 pm
Location
Virtual
Speaker
Olivia Bailey
Affiliation
University of California, Berkeley
Free and Open to the Public
Are Lockdowns Justified? Evaluating the costs and benefits
Mon, Dec 7, 2020, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Virtual
Speakers
- Professor Olga Yakusheva, Director of Health Care Innovation ImpactAffiliationUniversity of Michigan School of Nursing
- Professor Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of MedicineAffiliationStanford University
- Dr. Michael Plant, post-doctoral Research FellowAffiliationWellbeing Research Centre
Free and Open to the Public
Pandemic Ethics: Should we make use of volunteers in human challenge trials?
Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Location
Virtual
Speakers
- 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)
Free and Open to the Public
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 – 6:00 pm
Location
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Free and Open to the Public
Joe Horton (UCL): "New and Improvable Lives" (CANCELED)
Wed, Apr 1, 2020, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Lewis Library, Room 120
Free and Open to the Public
Ira W DeCamp Bioethics Seminar: Nicholas Southwood (Australian National University) (CANCELED)
Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Lewis Library, Room 120
Speaker
Nicholas Southwood
Affiliation
Australian National University
Free and Open to the Public
Gustaf Arrhenius (Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm): "Population Ethics under Risk" (CANCELED)
Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Lewis Library, Room 120
Free and Open to the Public
Tamar Schapiro (MIT): “What Makes Weak-Willed Acton Weak?”
Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Lewis Library, Room 120
Speaker
Tamar Schapiro
Affiliation
MIT
Free and Open to the Public
Michael Rabenberg (Princeton University): "Imprecision in the Ethics of Rescue"
Wed, Nov 20, 2019, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Lewis Library, Room 120
Free and Open to the Public
Alejandra Mancilla (University of Oslo): "Decolonizing Antarctica"
Wed, Nov 13, 2019, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Lewis Library, Room 120
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 – 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 – 6:00 pm
Location
Lewis Library, Room 120
Speaker
Affiliation
University of St. Andrews
Free and Open to the Public
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 – 6:30 pm
Location
McCosh Hall, Room 50
Free and Open to the Public
Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminars: Guy Kahane (University of Oxford) (CANCELED)
Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 4:30 pm – 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 – 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 – 6:00 pm
Location
Lewis Library 120
Jessica Flanigan (University of Richmond): "The Ethics of Prenatal Injury"
Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 4:30 pm – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 6:00 pm
Location
Lewis Library, Room 138
David Velleman (New York University): "Non-identical and Impersonal"
Wed, Apr 4, 2018, 4:30 pm – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 6:00 pm
Location
Lewis Library 138
Jan Krawitz (Stanford University, and documentary filmaker) "Perfect Strangers"
Wed, Nov 8, 2017, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
Lewis Library 120