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Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford. Facilitating ethical progress through research, teaching, and real-world application.
https://www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/
Read our Practical Ethics blog: https://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/
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It's Thursday, time for our next #womeninethics reel. Meet Katrien Devolder, Prof of Applied Ethics & Director of Public Philosophy at Oxford. She's into the ethics of #lifeextension #compromise #euthanasia #geneediting & #laziness.

#WIE #ethics
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November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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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.
www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/2025-lecture...
#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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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.

#PhilosophyMatters #Ethics #PracticalEthics #PopulationHealth
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.

#PhilosophyMatters #Ethics #PracticalEthics
November 3, 2025 at 5:33 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.

#PhilosophyMatters #Ethics #PracticalEthics
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 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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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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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
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The Oxford Uehiro–St Cross Scholars for 2025/26 have arrived from Japan! 🌸
We’re delighted to welcome them to Oxford and look forward to seeing their research flourish — from patient violence and procreation ethics to wild animal suffering.
#Ethics #PhilosophyMatters
October 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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We’re delighted to welcome Andrew Moeller, Hosted Research Fellow, to the Uehiro Oxford Institute! His project “Biotechnology and the Humanities” explores how emerging biotechnologies shape and challenge human values, and his previous research was with the Boundaries of Humanity at Stanford.
October 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Welcoming visiting student Bruno dos Santos Queiroz, PhD candidate at UFU & CAPES scholar! His research on Divine Command Theory explores how moral language, obligation, and value connect to divine authority, aiming to build a new “Synthetic” DCT.
#Ethics #PracticalEthics
October 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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On the 1st of October the Uehiro Oxford Institute celebrated its first birthday, raising a glass to the future and acknowledging the help and support that we have received along the way. Thanks to everyone who came along!
October 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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We're excited to welcome Nicolas Crozatier, a visiting PhD student who is jointly enrolled at Université Grenoble Alpes (France) and Macquarie University (Australia). He is currently researching autonomy through feminist and 4E cognitive lenses.

#ethics #practicalethics #philosophymatters
October 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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We're pleased to welcome Pablo Aguayo-Westwood! Pablo is Associate Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy and of Theories of Justice the University of Chile. He is currently Principal Investigator of a national research project on sex work and social justice based in Chile.
October 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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We're 1 today! We are deeply grateful to the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics & Education for making our work possible, and for the many others who have helped us along the way.
www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/article/uois...
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#Thankyou #birthday #ethics
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October 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM