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Professor Julian Savulescu

Current

Articles

Savulescu, J., Foddy, B., (Forthcoming) ‘Open Peer Commentary on S. Hyman's Target Article "The Neurobiology of Addiction: Implications for Voluntary Control of Behavior."’ American Journal of Bioethics .

Savulescu, J. and Kahane, G. (2009), Brain-Damage and the Moral Significance of Consciousness. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 33: pp 1 – 21. doi:10.1093/jmp/jhn038

Skene, L., Wilkinson, D., Kahane, G., and Savulescu, J. (2009) “Neuroimaging and the Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment from Patients in Vegetative State” Medical Law Review. 17: 245-261

Wilkinson, D., Kahane, G., Horne, M., and Savulescu, J., (2009) Functional neuroimaging and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from vegetative patients. Journal of Medical Ethics 35: 508-511

Books

Ter Meulen, R., and Savulescu, J., Kahane, G. (Forthcoming) eds. Enhancing Human Capacities Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Savulescu J, Bostrom N. (2009) eds. Human Enhancement Oxford: Oxford University Press

Knoepffler, N., and Savulescu, J., (2009) eds. Der neue Mensch. Enhancement und Genetik. Feiburg i. B.: Alber Verlag.

Book chapters

Savulescu, J., Sandberg, A., and Kahane, G. (forthcoming), ‘What is Enhancement and Why We Should Enhance Cognition’. In Ter Meulen, R., Kahane, G., and Savulescu, J. (eds) Enhancing Human Capacities Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Savulescu, J. (forthcoming), Three Stages of Disbelief, In 50 Voices of Disbelief Shuklenk, U and Blackford, R. (eds). Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford

Savulescu, J. (forthcoming) “Yuk” in Philosophy Bites. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Savulescu, J. (2009) ‘The Human Prejudice and the Moral Status of Enhanced Beings’. In Savulescu J, and Bostrom N. eds. Human Enhancement (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Savulescu, J., (2009) Enhancement and Fairness. In Healey, P. and Rayner, S. (eds) Unnatural Selection: The Challenges of Engineering Tomorrow’s People, (London: Earthscan) pp. 177 - 187

Ranisch, R. and Savulescu, J. (2009) Ethics and Enhancement. In: Knoepffler & Savulescu (Eds.) The new man? Enhancement and Genetics. Alber Verlag.

Past

Articles

Wilkinson, D., Kahane, G., and Savulescu, J., (2008) ‘Neglected Personhood’ and Neglected Questions: Remarks on the Moral Significance of Consciousness, American Journal of Bioethics 8:9 31- 33.

Naylor, E., Wood , D., and Savulescu J (2008), Enhancement, Student British Medical Journal, March 2008.

Naylor, E., Wood , D., and Savulescu J (2008), Neuroscience, Neuroethics and the Law, Student British Medical Journal, February 2008. http://student.bmj.com/issues/08/02/life/056.php

Savulescu J., Liao, S. M., and Wasserman, D. (2008). ‘The Ethics of Enhancement,’ Journal of Applied Philosophy.25:3. Edited Special Edition of the journal.

Savulescu, J., and Sandberg, A.., (2008) Neuroenhancement of Love and Marriage: The Chemicals Between Us, Neuroethics 1 (1): 31 – 44.

Liao, S.M., Savulescu, J., Wasserman, D., (2008) The Ethics of Enhancement. Journal of Applied Philosophy 25: 3 pp. 159 – 161.

Persson, I., and Savulescu, J., (2008) The Perils of Cognitive Enhancement and the Urgent Imperative to Enhance the Moral Character of Humanity Journal of Applied Philosophy 25:3 pp. 162 – 177.

Savulescu, J., and Clarke, S. (2007). ‘Waiting for a Miracle…Miracles, Miraclism and Discrimination’ Southern Journal of Medicine, vol 100, No. 12, pp. 1259 - 1262.Savulescu, J. (2007) ‘The Case for Creating Human-Nonhuman Cell Lines’. BioethicsForum [Online.] Available at: http://www.bioethicsforum.org/. [Accessed on 05/02/2007.]

Savulescu J, Foddy B, (2006) Autonomy, Addiction and the Drive to Pleasure: Designing Drugs and our Biology: A Reply to Neil Levy Bioethics 2006;20;1 pp21-23 (Feb) doi:10.1111/j.1467-8519.2006.00472.x

Savulescu, J., Hemsley, M, Newson, A., Foddy, B.(2006) Behavioural Genetics: Why Eugenic Selection is Preferable to Enhancement Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol 23 No (2) pp157-171 May.

Savulescu J, Foddy B, (2006) Autonomy, Addiction and the Drive to Pleasure: Designing Drugs and our Biology: A Reply to Neil Levy Bioethics 2006;20;1 pp21-23 (Feb) doi:10.1111/j.1467-8519.2006.00472.x

Savulescu, J., Hemsley, M, Newson, A., Foddy, B.(2006) Behavioural Genetics: Why Eugenic Selection is Preferable to Enhancement Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol 23 No (2) pp157-171 May.

Savulescu, J. (2006) Justice, Fairness and Enhancement. In eds. Sims Bainbridge, W. and Roco, M. C. Progress in Convergence: Technologies for Human Wellbeing Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 1093 doi: 10.1196/annals.1382.021, Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1093: 321-338. December. Devolder, K., Savulescu, J. (2006) The Moral Imperative to Conduct Embryonic Stem Cell and Cloning Research Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics doi:10.1017/S0963180106060026
Reprinted in: Savulescu, J. and Devolder, K. (Forthcoming 2009). The Moral Imperative to Conduct Embryonic Stem Cell and Cloning Research. In Contemporary Bioethics: An Integrated Approach. J. Pierce and G. Randels (eds). Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Savulescu, J. and Devolder, K. (Forthcoming 2009). The Moral Imperative to Conduct Embryonic Stem Cell and Cloning Research. In At Issue: The Ethics of Cloning. D. Haugen, Musser, S., and Lovelace, K. (eds). Thomsonville, Gale.

Savulescu J.(2005) ‘New breeds of humans: the moral obligation to enhance’, Reproductive Biomedicine Online; 10 (Supp 1) 1-9. www.rbmonline.com/Article/1643 on web 9 December 2004.

Savulescu,J. (2005) ‘Rational Morality, the New Genetics, and the Human Person’ Bulletin of Death and Life Studies Vol 1: 13-34.

Savulescu, J. (2001) ‘Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children’. Bioethics 15: no 5. 413-426.
Reprinted in ‘Bioethics’, (forthcoming April 2009) ed. Justin Oakley, The International Library of Essays in Public and Professional Ethics (Series Editors Seumas Miller and Tom Campbell) .

Savulescu J. Two worlds apart: religion and ethics. Journal of Medical Ethics.24(6):382-4, 1998 Dec.

Savulescu J. Consequentialism, Reasons, Value and Justice. Bioethics 1998;12:212-35.

Savulescu J. The Present-aim Theory: A Submaximizing Theory of Rationality? Australasian Journal of Philosophy 1998;76:229-243.

Savulescu J. Liberal Rationalism and Medical Decision-Making. Bioethics 1997;11: 115-129.

Savulescu J. Choosing the Best: Against Paternalistic Practice Guidelines. Bioethics 1996; 10: 323-330.

Books/ book chapters

Savulescu, J. Ed. (2007) In Quest of Ethical Wisdom: How the practical ethics of East and West contribute to wisdom, Oxford: Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.

Savulescu, J. (2007). Procreative beneficience: Why We Should Select the Best Children. In Chadwick, R., H. Kuhse, W.A. Landman, U. Schuklenk and P. Singer, The Bioethics Reader: Editors’ Choice, Malden: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 434 - 446

Savulescu, J. (2007) Autonomy, the Good Life, and Controversial Choices. In eds. Rhodes, R. Francis, L. P. and Silvers, A. The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing). Part 1, Chapter 1, pp. 17 - 37

Savulescu, J. (2006) Bioethics: UtilitarianismEncyclopedia of Life Sciences, (London :John Wiley and Sons) Reprint. Doi:10.1002/9780470015902.a0055891

Dr Steve Clarke

Current

Articles

Roache, R. and Clarke, S. (2009) ‘Bioconservatism, Bioliberalism and the Wisdom of Reflecting on Repugnance’, Monash Bioethics Review, 28, March , pp. 04.1-04.2, http://publications.epress.monash.edu/toc/mber/2009/28/1

'Naturalism, Science and the Supernatural’, Sophia 48, 2, April 2009, p 127-42.

In Edited Collections

Clarke, Steve and Roache, Rebecca, ‘Enhancement am Menschen. Intuitionen und die Weisheit einer Reflexion über Abscheu’ (Human Enhancement, Intuition, and the Wisdom of Reflecting on Repugnance), in Enhancement and Genetics, edited by Nikolaus Knoepffler, Verlag Karl Alber, forthcoming in German translation.

Other Publications

"Miracles," in The Science and Religion Primer, edited by H. Looy and H. Campbell, Ada MI, Baker Academic, 2009.

"Realism," in The Science and Religion Primer, edited by H. Looy and H. Campbell, Ada MI, Baker Academic, 2009.

Past

Articles

SIM and the City: Rationalism in Psychology and Philosophy and Haidt's Account of Moral Judgment', Philosophical Psychology,21, Dec 2008, 799-820.

Waiting for a Miracle ... Miracles, Miraclism and Discrimination, Southern Medical Journal,100, Dec 2007, pp. 1259-1262 (co-authored with Julian Savulescu).

The Supernatural and the MIraculous, Sophia, 46, 3, Dec 2007, pp. 275-283.

Luck and Miracles, Religious Studies,39, Dec 2003, pp. 471-474.

Response to Mumford and another Definition of Miracles, Religious Studies, 39, Dec 2003, pp. 459-463.

Hume's Definition of Miracles Revised, American Philosophical Quarterly, 36, Jan 1999, pp. 49-57.

When to Believe in Miracles, American Philosophical Quarterly, 34, Jan 1997, pp.95-102.

Books/book chapters

Recent Themes in the Philosophy of Science : Scientific Realism and Commonsense, edited by Steve Clarke and Timothy D. Lyons, Dordrecht, Kluwer, Sep 2002, pp. xxiii & 215.

Reviews

Review of "Moral Minds: How Nature Designed our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong," by Marc D. Hauser, Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 46, Mar 2008, pp. 147-150.

Review of "In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis," edited by Jonathan D. Moreno, Australian Journal of Political Science, 39, Jul 2004, p. 469.

Dr Russell Powell

Current

Articles

“Species Like Ours: Have Humans Transcended Biological Evolution?” (under review).

“From Origins to Upkeep: How A Gestalt Shift in Evolutionary Theory Promises to Reshape the Debate over Intelligent Design” (in preparation).

A Comprehensive Review of the Science of Religious Conflict (in preparation).

Professor Roger Trigg

Articles

"La Foi Fondee", Revue de Theologie et de Philosophie, 134, 2002, 117-129.

"Moral Conflict", Mind, 1971, 41-55.

Books

Equality, Freedom and Religion, forthcoming, OUP.

Religion in Public Life, Must Faith Be Privatized?, OUP, 2007.

Morality Matters, Blackwell, 2005.

Rationality and Religion, Does Faith Need Reason?, Blackwell, 1998, reprinted 1999.

Understanding Social Science, Blackwell, 1985, second edition with three new chapters, 2000, reprinted 2004.

Reason and Commitment, CUP, 1973 reprinted 1974, 1977, 1980, 1982.

Book chapters

Realism, Religion and the Public Sphere: Challenges to Rationality, in The Evolution of Rationality, ed. F.Leron Schults, Erdmans 2006, pp. 107-121.

Religion in the Public Sphere in Scientific Explanation and Religious Belief, ed. M.G. Parker and T.M. Schmidt Mohr Siebeck, Tubingen, 2005.

Rationality, Social Science and Religion, in Ratiionality and the Study of Religion, eds. J.Jensen and L. Martin, Aarhus U.P. 1997, pp. 99-116 (also in a Routledge edition).

The Sociobiological View of Man, in Objectivity and Cultural Divregence ed S.C. Brown, 1984 , CUP, pp 93-110.