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Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford. Facilitating ethical progress through research, teaching, and real-world application.
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Read our Practical Ethics blog: https://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/
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The Anti-stigma Principle and Legal Protection from Fattism - the last acceptable prejudice? Join Professor Iyiola Solanke and Dr Francesca Minerva on 28 Nov, 3pm - online participation is now available, details via the booking link: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/event/the-an...

#ethics #event #PELL #fattism
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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We're celebrating #WorldPhilosophyDay by launching #womeninethics, a collab with the Dept of Social Ethics, Uni of Bonn. Each week we'll share brilliant women in ethics, past & present, whose ideas deserve to be seen.
Here's Philippa Foot: youtube.com/shorts/6PQY3...

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#WomenInEthics Philippa Foot
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November 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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As our technologies rapidly evolve - from germline editing to BCIs and life-extension - they’re reshaping how we understand humanity itself. Come join our reading group that bridges the Humanities and the Sciences to explore the question: what does it mean to be human?

Sandwiches + drinks provided.
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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As debates on assisted dying continue, new conversations are emerging around radical life extension — from epigenetic tweaks to digital afterlives.

Join us for a thought-provoking panel exploring what these ideas mean for human identity, suffering, aging, and mortality.
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Prof Kimberley Brownlee's second Uehiro Lecture takes place at 4:30pm today on the topic of Reproductive Rights: Societal and Specific Dependency, in the HB Allen Centre.
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#PhilosophyMatters #ReproductiveRights
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November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Join us for this term’s Practical Ethics and Law Lecture on Friday, 28 November at the Uehiro Oxford Institute.
💡Professor Iyiola Solanke will argue that an anti-stigma principle should guide the development of anti-weight discrimination law.
🎟️ Free to attend: shorturl.at/xH3Oo
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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This Wednesday (12 Nov), join Professor Neil Levy, Senior Research Fellow at the UOI, for a distinguished lecture

📍 @unibirmingham.bsky.social
🕕 18:00–20:00
🎓 Free and open to all | Registration essential

Website to register: shorturl.at/415uc

#PhilosophyMatters #Ethics #Practicalethics
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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We're excited to share our festive #Bitesize events, now available for booking - they're free, online & everyone is welcome. Join @anonymoxford.bsky.social on the 16th Dec for 'The ethics of gift-giving' & Roger Crisp on the 19th for an exploration of hedonism!

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November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Literature, Film, and the Desirability of Life Extension
2 December 09:30 to 16:30, St Anne's College, Oxford

This conference invites scholars and practitioners of literature, film, and related fields to discuss topics relating to life extension.
Registration: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/event/litera...
Literature, Film, and the Desirability of Life Extension
Practitioners and scholars of literature and film examine topics relating to life extension
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November 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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We're looking forward to Kimberley Brownlee's first Uehiro Lecture which takes place tomorrow on the topic of 'Male Reproductive Dependency'. If you're joining us, see you at Keble's HB Allen Centre for a 4:30 start. www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/event/2025-u...

#reproductiverights #ethics #PhilosophyMatters
2025 Annual Uehiro Lectures: Reproductive Rights (Lecture 1/3)
Lecture 1: Male Reproductive Dependency
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November 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Book Talk: The recording from the book launch event for David Edmond's 'Death in a Shallow Pond' is now available for viewing on YouTube.

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=otSU...

#PhilosophyMatters #MoralPhilosophy #Ethics #PracticalEthics
November 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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We're pleased to welcome another DPhil student who has joined us this term - Robert Vandersluis, who is co-supervised by Professor Julian Savulescu.

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November 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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So pleased to welcome Marie-Kristin Resch, who is visiting us from the University of Vienna, Austria.

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November 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Now out! 'Call the midwife', a free-to-read essay on public philosophy: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/article/call...

The essay is included in a collection '"The Point Is To Change It": Essays on Philosophy in Public Life', published by the Nuffield Foundation, ed. David Archard (published 31 Oct 2025).
'Call the midwife', a free-to-read essay on public philosophy
Jointly authored by UOIs Professor Roger Crisp, Professor Katrien Devolder and Dr Jonathan Pugh
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November 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Former AfOx Fellow & current AV Tolulope Osayomi holds the VC's Research Culture award he won with the Medical Humanities team. Recently returned to Oxford as a TORCH Fellow Tolu is a medical geographer focusing on disease mapping.

#researchculture #congratulations
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October 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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We’re pleased to welcome two more DPhil researchers who have joined us this Michaelmas Term – Faisal Feroz and Rei Takahashi.

Swipe left to learn more about our wonderful DPhil researchers and what they are up to.

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October 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Out today! Volume 13, Issue 1 of the UOI's Journal of Practical Ethics - papers from Emily McTernan, @jakoblohmar.bsky.social and Arjan S. Heir.

#ethics
October 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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The 2025 Oxford Uehiro Prize is now open!
UK undergrad or postgrad in Philosophy? Submit your essay (max 2000 words) on any topic in #PracticalEthics.
Winners: £500 Runners-up: £200.
Finalists present at a public event - go to www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/oxford-uehiro-prize for more details on how to enter!
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Senior researcher Jonathan Pugh joins Audrey Carville on BBC Radio Ulster this Sunday at 9am for a discussion around the ethics of the forthcoming ‘Enhanced Games’ - listen in to find out more on the ethics of Aron D'Souza's #TEG
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

#dopinginsport #ethics #enhancedgames
BBC Radio Ulster - Sunday Sequence
Audrey Carville and guests debate the week's religious and ethical news.
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October 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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We're delighted to welcome our new Lab Manager for the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab - Sinead Cleary!

#MoralPsychology #Ethics #PracticalEthics
October 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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We're pleased to welcome three academic visitors who have joined us this term - Dr Sylvia Terbeck, Dr Tolulope Osayomi, and Dr Heloise Robinson.

#PhilosophyMatters #Ethics #PracticalEthics
October 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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We're pleased to welcome three of the DPhil researchers who have joined us this term.

Their research topics include the psychology of social division and political polarisation; AI in digital health; and the moral interactions between human and AI agents.

#Ethics #PracticalEthics
October 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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‘What about #exclusion?’ Join a public discussion with a panel of artists and academics reflecting on implications of #censorship and the perceived needs for #self-censorship.
Mon 27 Oct, 10-11:30am
Old Fire Station Theatre OX1 2AQ
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October 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, & Premature Birth - 1pm, Thurs 16 Oct, Seminar Room L, Law Faculty:
Prof Dana-Ain Davis discusses the role racism plays in Black women's understanding of medical encounters during prenatal care, pregnancy, & post-partum. www.gc.cuny.edu/people/dana-...
Davis, Dana-Ain
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October 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Congratulations to DPhil student Mattia Cecchinato, who has won the Young Scholar Prize from the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA) with his paper 'The best experiences we can have'. sifaphilosophy.eu/premi/

#congratulations #ethics #PhilosophyMatters
October 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM