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Published on Mar 16, 2015
Julian Savulescu - The Future of Humans. Moral Bioenhancement
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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 analytic philosophical
basis of practical ethics.
Julian is also Fellow of St Cross
College, Oxford, Director of
the Oxford Uehiro Centre for
Practical Ethics, and Head of the
Melbourne–Oxford Stem Cell
Collaboration, which is devoted
to examining the ethical implications
of cloning and embryonic
stem cell research. He is also the
editor of the Journal of Medical
Ethics.
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 choice and behaviour. Julian argues that when
addressing these problems, we should look not only to policies
tailored to our moral limitations, but to altering the biological
dispositions which contribute to these limitations. In this
seminar he will explore the possibility of using medicine to
improve moral behaviour, discuss what impact it would have
on our freedom, evaluate the ongoing redefinition of
normality, and suggest alternative ways forward.
