PHILOSOPHICAL BIOETHICS HUB
The Philosophical Bioethics Hub aims to provide accessible philosophical resources to a general audience.
We are supported through a grant from The Greenwall Foundation.
PHILOSOPHICAL BIOETHICS
RESOURCES
Philosophical Foundations
Covers the fundamentals of ethical theory and philosophical argumentation.
Seminar
Series
Includes 25 entries on various contemporary bioethical issues in public health, research ethics, clinical ethics, and decision-making, taken from the Greenwall Scholars Seminars.
Empirical and Normative Bioethics Foundations
Explores the relationship between normative and empirical inquiry in bioethics and practical considerations for normative research.
PB Book Club
A book club inspired by a philosophy reading group led by Dr. Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby
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Podcasts
Podcast featuring Drs. Ellie Anderson and David Peña-Guzman
This podcast, led by Drs. Ellie Andrson and David Peña-Guzman is nearing 100 episodes and tackles philosophical issues as diverse as the use of psychedelics, animal rights, privacy and surveillance ethics, and more.
Podcast Featuring Drs. Sven Nyholm and John Danaher
This podcast, led by Drs. Sven Nyholm and John Danaher, launched in 2023 and aims to release ten episodes in total discussing topics in technological ethics. Episodes thus far have addressed the methodologies of tech ethics, moral agency for AI, and moral responsibility for technology, among other things.
Podcast features Leah Pierson and Sophie Gibert
In this podcast, Leah Pierson and Sophie Gilbert engage with a variety of topical bioethics controversies ranging from research ethics and IRB practices to medical resource allocation, to animal rights. Podcasts generally feature an expert interviewee.
Our EVENTS
The Ethics of Big Data and AI: Issues in Health and Healthcare Course (sPRING 2023)
The Centre for Biomedical Ethics in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine is offering a four-day, online course on the ethics of big data and AI as they relate to healthcare between March 21st and 30th. The educators offering the course include Professor Julian Savulescu, Dr. Owen Schaefer, Dr. Victor Cole, and Dr. Muralidharan.
The link to register for this course can be found here.
NYU Philosophical Bioethics Workshop (sPRING 2023)
The New York University Center for Bioethics is pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for the 3rd Annual Philosophical Bioethics Workshop, to be held at NYU on Friday and Saturday, April 28-29, 2023.
They are seeking to showcase new work in philosophical bioethics, broadly understood. This includes (but is not limited to) neuroethics, environmental ethics, animal ethics, reproductive ethics, research ethics, ethics of AI, data ethics, public health ethics, gender and race in bioethics, and clinical ethics. The distinguished keynote speaker will be Professor Ruth Chang, University of Oxford.
The submission deadline is February 5, 2023. To learn more, click here.
Philosophical bioethics workshop (fall 2022)
Ten philosopher bioethicists met for an annual workshop at Baylor College of Medicine over the course of several days to present papers, receive feedback, and discuss ideas.
Recent publications from our partners
“The End of Personhood”
Blumenthal-Barby, Jennifer. “The End of Personhood.” The American Journal of Bioethics, January 12, 2023, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2022.2160515.
“Bioethics and the moral authority of experience”
Nelson, Ryan H., Bryanna Moore, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Miranda R. Waggoner, and Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby. 2022. “Bioethics and the Moral Authority of Experience.” The American Journal of Bioethics, October, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2022.2127968.
“The Place of philosophy in bioethics today”
Blumenthal-Barby, Jennifer, Sean Aas, Dan Brudney, Jessica Flanigan, S. Matthew Liao, Alex London, Wayne Sumner, and Julian Savulescu. 2021. “The Place of Philosophy in Bioethics Today.” The American Journal of Bioethics, June, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2021.1940355.
“Disability and the Definition of health”
Aas, Sean. 2022. “Disability and the Definition of Health.” In The Disability Bioethics Reader, by Joel Michael Reynolds and Christine Wieseler, 1st ed., 73–81. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003289487-11.
“It’s time for a Black Bioethics”
Ray, Keisha Shantel. “It’s Time for a Black Bioethics.” The American Journal of Bioethics 21, no. 2 (February 1, 2021): 38–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2020.1861381.