As science, technology, and medicine advance, society will confront new ethical dilemmas at the nexus of public health policy and individual choice. The Master of Arts in Bioethics at the College of Global Public Health provides a strong philosophical foundation for navigating these urgent questions.
Lara Buchak is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton in 2009, and taught at UC Berkeley for 12 years before returning to Princeton. Her research interests include decision theory, social choice theory, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of religion.
Some of my choices are primarily guided by the interests of others: for example, which charities to give to or which political policies to vote for. Other of my choices have at least a significant component where I must take others’ interests into account, though perhaps I can weigh them against my own interests: for example, which environment-protecting measures to adopt in my personal life. This talk is about how to evaluate the other-affecting component of my decisions. In cases in which all of the empirical facts are known, it may be easy to say which decision is best for another person. But in cases of risk—we don’t know how the world will turn out—or ambiguity—we don’t even know the probability of the world turning out in various ways—things are less simple. This is particularly the case given the wide range of attitudes towards risk and towards ambiguity that a person could rationally take. After laying out a framework for thinking about these choices, I will argue for some principles that should govern them.
Meyer Hall, Room 122
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New York, NY 10003
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Bioethics alumni Andreia Martinho (’12) has a new publication called A healthy debate: Exploring the views of medical doctors on the ethics of artificial intelligence.
To read this piece, which has been published in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, please click here.
Congratulations, Andreia!
Thursday, November 18th, 2021
1:00 – 2:00 PM EST
Interested in the ethics of new technology, clinical practice, animal treatment, environmental and population issues, or neurology?
NYU’s Master of Arts degree in Bioethics is a major focus on the NYU Center for Bioethics. Based in the College of Global Public Health, the MA Program gives graduate level students the opportunity to study and explore a broad conception of bioethics, encompassing medical, environmental, and public health ethics.
Join us for an online information session, hosted by Director S. Matthew Liao, with current faculty and students for an overview of the program curriculum and activities at the Center, as well as an opportunity to have any questions answered about the program or the admissions and financial aid processes.
S. Matthew Liao, director of the Center for Bioethics and holder of the Arthur Zitrin Chair, is the author or editor of four books (another forthcoming) and over 60 articles.
Dr. Liao is a Fellow of The Hastings Center and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Moral Philosophy, and has interests in the ethics of genetic enhancement and neurotechnology, human rights, children’s rights, climate change, and the role of intuitions in moral theory.
Alumni of the program, Dr. Samuel Owusu is the first-author of a new article in the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. Along with his co-authors, his piece is entitled, Assessment of the Operational Characteristics of Research Ethics Committees in Ghana.
Click here to read this addition to scholarly research ethics literature.
Congrats, Dr. Owusu!
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