Philosophy Seminar [UNSW] Event Invitation [UNSW] Tuesday 21 March | 12:30- 2:00pm | Morven Brown 310, UNSW The School of Humanities and Languages invites all interested staff and students to this Philosophy seminar by Professor Susan Dodds from UNSW Sydney. Some ethical reflections on vulnerability, disability and technologies Abstract: This paper is a work in progress that builds on my earlier work, with Catriona Mackenzie and Wendy Rogers (Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy), on the concept of human vulnerability its ethical implications. I explore how attention to vulnerabilities combined with “disability bioethics” (Jackie Leach Scully Disability Bioethics: Moral Bodies, Moral Knowledge 2008) can usefully inform evaluation of the ethical significance of assistive technologies from prosthetics to biosensors and mobile device apps and neural implants, and can also offer a different, possibly more rewarding, way of engaging with the therapy/ enhancement distinction and the current debate about human enhancement (see eg various articles by Robert Sparrow, John Harris and Julian Savulescu who’ve kept up a pretty robust debate in this area for over a decade). Susan Dodds is a Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW. Her research explores the intersections between applied ethics, political philosophy, moral psychology and feminist theory. She is a Chief Investigator and leader of the Ethics, Policy and Public Engagement Theme of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES). Significant recent publications include S. Dodds and R. A. Ankeny (eds) Big Picture Bioethics: Developing Democratic Policy in Contested Domains, Springer 2016 and C. Mackenzie, W. Rogers and S. Dodds (eds)Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy, OUP 2014. [cid:image012.jpg@01D29E3B.B2B0DC80] Date: 21 March, 2017 Time: 12:30pm – 2:00pm Location: Morven Brown, room 310, UNSW Kensington Campus map: view<http://www.facilities.unsw.edu.au/Maps/maps.html>. Registration: Not Required Map reference: C20 Contact: Heikki Ikaheimo e: h.ikahe...@unsw.edu.au<mailto:h.ikahe...@unsw.edu.au> t: (02) 9385 2373 [UNSW] UNSW Arts & Social Sciences UNSW Australia Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia www.arts.unsw.edu.au<http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au> CRICOS Provider Code 00098G, ABN 57 195 873 179 [UNSW]<https://www.facebook.com/UNSWArtsandSocialSciences> [UNSW]
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