Events
2013
Ethics of Placebo Surgery in Parkinson's Disease Clinical Trials
Dr. Scott Kim, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan
March 13, 2013
8:00 AM-10:00 AM in Paetzold Lecture Theatre, VGH
This lecture is part of the UBC Neurosciences Grand Rounds series
Distinguished Neuroethics Lecture: Ethics of Research with Brain-Impaired Adults Who Cannot Consent
Dr. Scott Kim, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan
March 13, 2013
4:00 PM-6:00 PM in Conference Room, Koerner Pavilion, UBC Hospital
Aristotle on Virtue: Wrong, wrong, wrong (STS Colloquium)
March 22, 2013
3:00 PM-5:00 PM in BUCH A201
Events of interest
These are events that may be of interest, but are not sponsored by the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics.
Self-Control and Moral Experience: Children's perspective on ADHD behaviors and stimulant drug treatments
Dr. Ilina King, Reader in Bioethics and Society, King's College, London
March 4, 2013
4:00 PM-5:00 PM in Rm. 102 Michael Smith Labs
This lecture is part of the HELP International Scholar Series
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Past Events
2013
Peter Danielson, W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, UBC
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence - BARtalk
January 31, 2013
6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Gallery Lounge, SUB Building
Michael McDonald, UBC W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, Susan Cox, UBC W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics and Anne Townsend, UBC W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics
Evidence-based versus Compliance-Based Human Research Protection
February 1, 2013
9:00 AM-10:00 AM in Room B151, SPPH Building
This lecture is part of the School of Population and Public Health's Grand Rounds series
Jeff McMahan, Rutgers University
What Rights May Be Defended by Means of War
January 28, 2013
6:00 PM-8:00 PM at UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson St., Vancouver
This lecture is sponsored by the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, Kwantlen Polythechnic University Phiosophy Department and UBC Philosophy Department
Jeff McMahan, Rutgers University
Self Defense Against Justified Threateners
January 29, 2013
11:00 AM-1:00 PM in Room 968, Henry Angus Building
This lecture is sponsored by the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, Kwantlen Polythechnic University Phiosophy Department and UBC Philosophy Department
Veronica P. Fynn, Adjunct Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
Canada's Immigration Reform: Tweezing Law, Justice and Ethics
January 15, 2013
Tod Chambers, PhD, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program, Northwestern University
Taking Boiethics Personally
January 3, 2013
2012
Dr. Laetitia Mulder, University of Groningen
Escalation in Unethical Behaviour
December 4, 2012
Elizabeth Ormandy
The use of animals in research: trends and public attitude
December 12, 2012
Dr. Lou Marinoff, best-selling author of "Plato not Prozac"
Title: Book Launch and Lecture
November 30, 2012
Dr. Abraham Rudnick, MD, PhD, Vancouver Island Health Authority
Title: Informal ethics consultations in (academic) health care settings: a quantitative description and a qualitative analysis
November 27, 2012
Allen Alvarez, NTNU Norway
Title: The place of culture-based reasons in public debates
November 13th
Elisabeth Wehling, UC Berkely (Linguistics)
Title: Italy, miraculously cured?
May 18th
Joshua Knobe - Yale (Philosophy)
Title: Person as Scientist, Person as Moralist
May 7th
Rahul Kumar - Queens University (Philosophy)
Title: Risking and Wronging
April 3rd
Jonathan Haidt - University of Virginia (Psychology)
Title: The Groupish Gene: Hive psychology and the origins of morality and religion
April 2nd
Green College's "Bringing the Collective Together"
Keynote: Fras de Waal, Emory University (Psychology)
Title: Morality Before Religion: Empathy, Fairness and Prosocial Primates
March 8th
Green College's "Bringing the Collective Together"
Speakers included the CAE's Michael MacDonald and Elisabeth Ormandy
March 7th
CIHR's Café Scientifique
Title: Body Parts for Science? Who Owns Your Organ?
March 5th
Polly Wiessner - University of Utah (Anthropology)
Title: Changing Morals in Changing Worlds. Are there Universal Morals that Persist?
March 5th
Waheed Hussain - University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School of Business)
Title: Is ethical consumerism an objectionable form of vigilantism?
February 24th
Rachael Ritchie - OECD (Science, Technology & Industry Directorate)
Title: OECD Perspectives on Biomarkers in Personalised Medicine
February 23rd
John Mikhail - Georgetown (Law)
Title: Elements of Moral Cognition
February 6th
Inmaculada de Melo-Martin - Weil Cornell Medical College (Medical Ethics)
Title: Procreative Liberty and Embryo Selection
February 6th
Daniel Jacobson - University of Michigan (Psychology)
Title: "The Possibility of Moral Psychology"
January 23rd
Dave Pizarro - Cornell (Psychology)
Title: "The Good, the Bad, and the Dirty: the Role of Disgust in Moral and Political Judgment"
January 16th
Stephen Ward - University of Wisconsin-Madison (Journalism)
Title: "Re-writing journalism ethics for a new mixed media world."
January 5th
Stephen Ward - University of Wisconsin-Madison (Journalism)
Title: "Global Ethics in Journalism"
January 10th
2011
Charles Weijer - University of Western Ontario (Rotman Institute of Philosophy)
Title: "Ethical issues in cluster randomized trials"
December 16th, 2011
Joan Silk - UCLA (Anthropology)
For "The Cognitive Science of Morality" Speaker Series
Title: "The Origins of the Prosocial Ape: Insights from Comparative Studies of Social Preferences"
December 5th, 2011
Dana Lori Chalmers, a graduate student from the Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program, directed Two Merchants, a dual reenvisioning of The Merchant of Venice. The play showed November 10th through 19th. Click here for the details.
Sally Wyke - University of Glasgow (Institute of Health and Wellbeing)
Title: "Health and illness in a wi-fi world: how might access to patients' experiences on the internet affect people's health?"
November 10th, 2011
Kiley Hamlin - UBC (Psychology)
For "The Cognitive Science of Morality" Speaker Series
Title: "Moral Babies: Preverbal Infants Know Who and What are Good and Bad"
November 7th, 2011
Isaac H. Smith - University of Utah (Eccles School of Business)
Title: "Morality in and of Organization: A Look at Justice, Prosocial Behavior, and Behavioral Ethics"
October 27th, 2011
Karl Aquino - UBC (Sauder School of Business)
Title: "Moral Identity and Moral Functioning: A Social Cognitive Framework"
October 20th, 2011
Larry Walker - UBC (Psychology)
For "The Cognitive Science of Morality" Speaker Series
Title: "Agency and Communion in the Lives of Moral Exemplars: Antagonistic of Integrative?"
October 3rd, 2011
Claudia Ruitenberg - UBC (Educational Studies)
Title: "Hospitality as educational ethics"
September 29th, 2011
In March 2010, Robert Cook-Deegan presented "Personal Genomics: Do we need doctors anymore?" It was the inaugural lecture in the Young Memorial Lecture series. The abstract is available here. The lectures are available here on YouTube.
"The Cognitive Science of Morality" Speaker Series
The Centre for Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture along with Green College and the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics proudly present the new 2011/2012 speaker series, "The Cognitive Science of Morality".
There is a near universal interest in morality that has sparked thought-provoking inquiry for thousands of years. Much of that inquiry proceeded without the benefit of modern cognitive science, but that is now changing. And the change promises to shed new light on morality, particularly its practices, development, and the psychology behind ethical thought. In this series we bring together speakers from a vast array of disciplines—from philosophy and law to biology and psychology—to discuss cutting edge research in the cognitive science of morality.
As last year, the talks will be held at 5pm at Green College Coach House. We've listed the talks above in the "Events" section, and we'll be sending out reminders a week before each talk. You can also check the Speaker Series' website for further details. We have an exciting series lined up, and we hope to see you there. As always, everyone is welcome, and we encourage you to circulate the news of the series to anyone you think might be interested.
Reading Group
This year, the Centre and the National Core for Neuroethics launched a collaborative reading group to stimulate co-operative discourse between ethics silos at UBC. The group will be meeting regularly, and the first meeting was held on November 4th 2011. The group discussed "An Empirical Approach to Bioethics: Social Science 'Of', 'For' and 'In' Bioethics Research."
