Savulescu and Harris debate enhancing morality
Two utilitarians slug it out over enhancing morality. Watch more videos on iai.tv Julian Savulescu, of Oxford University, and John Harris, of Manchester University, square...
Are drugs or democracy our bulwark against the apocalypse?
A new book by Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu, Unfit for the Future, fills in the case for biomedical moral enhancement which they have been...
The infanticide controversy: the editor
Julian Savulescu, the Australian philosopher who is now the director of Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford, is ever controversial. He was a leading...
The Brave New World vs 1984 debate
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a touchstone for much commentary on contemporary bioethical debates, from moral enhancement to genetic engineering to assisted reproduction. Published...
Do we need a morality pill?
Hi there, The bioethicist Peter Singer tweeted the other day that he had just co-authored an article in the New York Times about a morality...
Do we need a morality pill?
Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer and a research assistant, Agata Sagan, proposed a “morality pill” in a column in the New York Times this week. They...
Can you morally enhance a hoodie?
A Google search for “London+riots+bioethics” yielded nothing of any value. But future discussions about how to respond to mass hooliganism may well require bioethicists. At...
Mandatory moral enhancement may be needed to avert Apocalypse
Proposal from Julian Savulescu In the last few years, the apocalypse has fascinated Hollywood: films like The War of the Worlds, I am Legend and...