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Feb 21 2025

5th Annual Philosophical Bioethics Workshop

The 5th Annual NYU Philosophical Bioethics Workshop

April 25th – 26th, 2025
Deutsches Haus
42 Washington Mews
New York, NY 10003
RSVP Here!

The New York University Center for Bioethics is pleased to present the 5th Annual Philosophical Bioethics Workshop, being held in person at NYU on April 25th and 26th, 2025. 

We 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.

Our distinguished keynote speaker will be Professor Caspar Hare of MIT.

If you would like to attend in person as an audience member, please RSVP using the form linked below. We have limited space for in-person participation; there will not be a Zoom option.

This year’s Philosophical Bioethics Workshop is organized by S. Matthew Liao, Daniel Fogal, Claudia Passos-Ferreira, Dan Khokhar, and Jonathan Knutzen of the NYU Center for Bioethics.

Featured Speakers

  • Caspar Hare (MIT) – Keynote Speaker
  • Ben Lang (Oxford University) – Graduate Student Prize Winner
  • Richard Yetter Chappell (University of Miami)
  • Sophie Gilbert (NYU / Penn) 
  • Michal Masny (MIT)
  • Nada Gligorov (Albany) & Pierce Randall (Albany)
  • Sam Director (Richmond)
Dr. Caspar Hare
Ben Lang
Richard Yetter Chappell
Sophie Gibert
Michal Masny
Nada Gligorov
Pierce Randall
Sam Director
Friday, April 25
9:30-10:00am Coffee, light refreshments (provided)
10:00am Welcome — S. Matthew Liao (NYU)
10:05-11:25am Richard Yetter Chappell (Miami) – ‘Genetic Reproductive Freedom’
Chair: Aleksy Tarasenko-Struc (Seton Hall)
11:35-12:55pm Sophie Gibert (NYU/Penn) – ‘Paternalism and the Right to Be Wronged’
Chair: Blake Hereth (Western Michigan)
12:55-2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00-3:20pm Michal Masny (MIT) – ‘Extension and Replacement’
Chair: Brian Berkey (Penn)
3:30-5:30pm Mala Kamm Memorial Lecture (NYU Philosophy): Peter Railton (Michigan)
6:00-7:30pm Workshop reception (everyone invited)
 
Saturday, April 26
9-9:30am: Coffee, light breakfast (provided)
10:00-11:20am: Nada Gligorov & Pierce Randall (Albany) – ‘The Volitional Approach to Surrogate Decision Making’
Chair: Max Kramer (UCLA)
11:30-12:50pm: Sam Director (Richmond) – ‘Does Black Box AI In Medicine Compromise Informed Consent?’
Chair: Emily Slome (SUNY Oswego)
12:50-2:00pm: Lunch Break
2:00-3:20pm: Ben Lang (Oxford) – ‘Dropping Anchor or Chasing a Moving Target? Challenges for Personalized, Moral Advisement LLMs’ (Graduate Student Prize Winner)
Chair: Levy Wang (USC)
3:30-5:00pm: Caspar Hare (MIT), TBA
Chair: S. Matthew Liao (NYU)
 
RSVP Here!
Questions? Email bioethics@nyu.edu

Written by Sarah E. Muskovitz · Categorized: Philosophical Bioethics Workshop, Upcoming Events

Mar 19 2024

The Value of Life, the Value of Virtue with Dr. Johann Frick

The Center for Bioethics Presents: Spring 2024 Colloquium Series

The Value of Life, the Value of Virtue, with Dr. Johann Frick
Wednesday, April 3rd
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Location TBD

It is sometimes said that, just as Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires, the field of population ethics is the graveyard of moral theories. Ethical views that appeared promising when theorizing about fixed-population contexts often struggle to provide satisfactory answers to questions involving the creation of new people.

In this talk, I attempt to turn this trope on its head. I explore what insights might be gleaned for our general moral theorizing by viewing some of its traditional questions through the lens of population ethics. I want to ask: “What can population ethics ‘give back’ to moral philosophy?”

I will begin by recapitulating some of my earlier work on one of the central problems of population ethics – the so-called Procreation Asymmetry: How can we explain the widespread intuition that while we have strong moral reason not to create a future person whose life would foreseeably be miserable, there is no corresponding moral reason, let alone an obligation, to create a future person just because her life would be happy? In Jan Narveson’s phrase, why is it that we are ‘in favor of making people happy, but neutral about making happy people’?

Then, in the second and third parts of my talk, I will seek to persuade you that there are striking parallels between the puzzle of the Procreation Asymmetry and a number of other, seemingly disparate ethical questions – questions about the value of manifesting certain virtues and of fulfilling our desires. I will argue that, once these parallels are noted, this opens up elegant new solutions to these venerable philosophical problems, while at the same time bringing several new questions into sharper focus.

Johann Frick (B.Phil., Oxford; Ph.D., Harvard) is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at UC Berkeley.  His main interests span a range of topics in moral and political philosophy, practical reason, and applied ethics. His current work focuses on population ethics, the ethics of risk, moral dilemmas and moral luck, the notion of interpersonal justification, and the ethics of immigration and national partiality. His publications include “Contractualism and Social Risk” (Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2015), “What We Owe to Hypocrites” (Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2016), “On the Survival of Humanity” (Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2017), “National Partiality, Immigration, and the Problem of Double-Jeopardy” (Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, 2020) and “Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry” (Philosopical Perspectives, 2020).

RSVP Here!

Written by Sarah E. Muskovitz · Categorized: Upcoming Events

Mar 19 2024

4th Annual Philosophical Bioethics Workshop

The 4th Annual NYU Philosophical Bioethics Workshop

May 3-4, 2024
Deutsches Haus
42 Washington Mews
New York, NY 10003
RSVP Here!

The New York University Center for Bioethics is pleased to present the 4th Annual Philosophical Bioethics Workshop, being held in person at NYU on May 3rd and 4th, 2024. 

We 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.

Our distinguished keynote speaker will be Professor Shelly Kagan of Yale University. 

If you would like to attend in person as an audience member, please RSVP using the form linked below. We have limited space for in-person participation; there will not be a Zoom option.

This year’s Philosophical Bioethics Workshop is organized by S. Matthew Liao, Daniel Fogal, Claudia Passos-Ferreira, Stephanie Beardman, Dan Khokhar, and Jonathan Knutzen of the NYU Center for Bioethics.

Featured Speakers

  • Shelly Kagan (Yale University) – Keynote Speaker
  • Jack Harris (Boston University) – Graduate Student Prize Winner
  • Nicholas Makins (University of Leeds, England)
  • Shivani Aggarwal (University of Cambridge, England) 
  • Travis Timmerman (Seton Hall University)
  • Susan Kennedy (Santa Clara University)
  • Sean Aas (Georgetown University)
Dr. Shelly Kagan
Jack Harris
Dr. Nicholas Makins
Shivani Aggarwal
Dr. Travis Timmerman
Dr. Susan Kennedy
Dr. Sean Aas
 
RSVP Here!
Questions? Email bioethics@nyu.edu
 

 

Written by Sarah E. Muskovitz · Categorized: Upcoming Events

Feb 14 2024

Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

8 March 2024
4.00 – 6.00 PM EST

New York University
708 Broadway (Global Public Health School).  

The event is co-hosted by The GovLab, The Center for Urban Science + Progress, The Center for Responsible AI and the NYU Center for Bioethics

Speaker: Urs Gasser, Professor of Public Policy, Governance, and Innovative Technology at the Technical University of Munich, where he serves as Dean of the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology and Rector of the Munich School of Politics and Public Policy. (see bio below).

Moderator: Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder, The GovLab

Respondent: Julia Stoyanovich, Director of the Center for Responsible AI.

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Join us for a book talk with Urs Gasser as he delves into his latest work, “Guardrails.” In this talk, Gasser will explore the ways in which societal norms shape our decision-making processes in an era saturated with data and dominated by rapidly advancing technologies like artificial intelligence. 

Drawing from a deep foundation in cognitive science, economics, and public policy, “Guardrails” presents an innovative approach for enhancing decision-making by acknowledging human agency within its societal context.

Gasser, alongside co-author Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, focuses on how to steer the adoption of technological solutions that may lead to unintended consequences. They advocate for societal “guardrails” that are more apt for the digital age—ones that bolster individual autonomy while considering collective welfare, promote adaptability amidst evolving scenarios, and guide us towards more informed choices as we confront formidable global challenges such as injustice and climate change.

This talk is a must-attend for anyone interested in a critical examination of the role of technology in decision-making and how to adopt a more human-centric approach to creating a fairer and more equitable world. 

The talk will open with a presentation by Urs Gasser, followed by a conversation moderated by Stefaan Verhulst and Julia Stoyanovich. It will close with Q&A and a brief mingling and networking session.

➡️ RSVP by confirming your attendance by completing the form here. If you have any difficulties, please contact Andrew J. Zahuranec at azahuranec@thegovlab.org. 

Written by Sarah E. Muskovitz · Categorized: Upcoming Events

Feb 08 2024

Center for Bioethics: February MA Information Session & Virtual Open House

New York University’s Center for Bioethics
MA Information Session
Virtual Open House

Friday, February 23rd 2024
12:00 pm — 1:00 pm EST

Please join us on February 24th at 12:00 pm EST for an information session and a q&a about New York University’s MA in Bioethics! Hear from faculty and members of our administrative staff who will discuss the logistics of the program, application requirements, and admissions process.
 
Applications are now open for the Fall 2024 semester. All students are automatically considered for the Bioethics Departmental Scholarship– no additional application needed!
 
Register Here!

Written by Sarah E. Muskovitz · Categorized: Upcoming Events

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