Is death bad for you? If so, why is it bad? If death is bad, are we badly off prior to our birth? Ryan Kulesa discusses these questions and more in the fourth session of #BitesizeEthics 2026. The talk is now available online: youtu.be/CpB5R7G_6Jc

Bitesize Ethics 2026 Session Four: The Badness of Death

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If a doctor is asked to provide a medical service they morally object to, would their refusal violate professional obligations? Alberto Giubilini discusses #conscientiousobjection in #healthcare in this Bitesize Ethics class: youtu.be/LzrmjJsgcuY?... #medicalethics #PhilosophyMatters #ethics

Bitesize Ethics 2026 Session Three: Conscience and Conscientious Objection in Healthcare

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Earlier this year, Deputy Director of Education, Dr Alberto Giubilini, gave a talk at the Centre for Personalised Medicine. The talk is now available to watch online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdgK... #Ethics #PracticalEthics #PhilosophyMatters

Katerina Jennings leads the second of our Bitesize sessions this year, discussing the moral limits of age-based exclusion in 'Too Young to Decide?' 👀watch on YouTube: youtu.be/qFYpV4OuX0A?... #adolescence #decisionmaking #ethics #PhilosophyMatters

Bitesize Ethics 2026 Session Two: Too Young to Decide? The Moral Limits of Age-Based Exclusion

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Bitesize Ethics videos are now online! Catch up with the first of the four classes so far on YouTube: youtu.be/6Ui7N5OKXUo?... Prof Dom Wilkinson starts this season's programming with his Introduction to Life, Death and Difficult Decisions... #PhilosophyMatters #onlineeducation #life #death #ethics

Bitesize Ethics 2026 Session One: Introduction to life, death and difficult decisions

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The Uehiro Oxford Institute is seeking a new Director. Candidates must showcase strong strategic and people leadership skills as well as vision. A candidate pack and information on how to apply can be found at Minerva Search (link below). Closing date: noon Wed 2 Sept 2026. #WeAreHiring #Ethics

This week in #WomeninEthics, we spotlight the ideas of Noriko Katayama. See here: youtube.com/shorts/Q3lUc... #Ethics #PracticalEthics #PhilosophyMatters

#WomeninEthics Noriko Katayama

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This week in #WomeninEthics we are pleased to spotlight Prof. Lisa Bortolotti, an interdisciplinary ethicist in philosophy and psychology! See our video on her work here: youtube.com/shorts/_484c... #Ethics #PracticalEthics #Feminism

#WomeninEthics Lisa Bortolotti

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📣CHANGE OF VENUE: Due to the ongoing heatwave please be aware that the Lockwood Memorial Lecture will now take place in Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6GG.

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Is ethical divestment possible? Join us for the biennial Lockwood memorial lecture on 25 June, where 2026 medallist Prof David Boonin will discuss a range of responses to this challenge. 5pm, Rewley House, Oxford www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/event/2026-l... bsky.app/profile/oxli...

We are delighted to announce that Prof Thomas Douglas has been appointed as Interim Director of the UOI, following the end of Prof Roger Crisp's tenure. We are enormously grateful to Roger for all his work over the last three years. Read more here: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/article/new-... #thankyou

New Interim Director for UOI

Announcing the appointment of Professor Thomas Douglas as Interim Director from 1 October 2026

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Bitesize Ethics 2026 will start this Wednesday at 12:35 UK time on zoom, and there's still time to register! We'll be thinking about #life, #death, and difficult decisions. If you are interested but can't make the time don't worry - videos will be shared on Youtube. We hope to see you there!

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Bitesize Ethics is back! Join us on Wednesdays for free, #online ethics classes exploring 'Life, death and difficult decisions', 24 Jun-12 Aug. No prior knowledge required, all welcome. Register: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-eth... @oxmedhum.bsky.social #bitesize #ethics #FreeEducation #life

There's still time to book your seat for what promises to be a really interesting, interdisciplinary discussion of #ethicaldivestment, with David Boonin (Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder). 25th June at 5pm, Rewley House, Oxford.

Uehiro Oxford Institute@uehiro.ox.ac.uk · 3mo ago

Is ethical divestment possible? Join us for the biennial Lockwood memorial lecture on 25 June, where 2026 medallist Prof David Boonin will discuss a range of responses to this challenge. 5pm, Rewley House, Oxford www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/event/2026-l... bsky.app/profile/oxli...

“Two phenomena can compromise embodied visibility required for recognition as a moral agent in society: invisibility and exposure.“ This week for #WomeninEthics, we’re featuring Tabea Ott. See our reel on her work here: www.youtube.com/shorts/cxeHT...

#WomeninEthics Tabea Ott

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For Italian readers: @albertogiubilini2.bsky.social discusses the perils of AI and AI regulations following anti-AI protests and the Pope’s warnings in the inaugural encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, in Italian newspaper La Verità earlier in the week: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/article/stop... #AI #ethics

Stop AI - Pause AI - Control AI?

Alberto Giubilini discusses the perils of AI and AI regulations, following anti-AI protests and the Pope’s warnings in the inaugural encyclical Magnifica Humanitas

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Our ECR/DPhil workshop tomorrow (Thursday18)+Friday19 June. Keynote by Helene Scott-Fordsmand (UCL) on Friday morning: Fat tissue and the collapse of the subject-object divide in anatomical dissection practices torch.ox.ac.uk/event/object... @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @torchoxford.bsky.social

Objectivity and Subjectivity in Medicine

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For this week's #WomeninEthics, we're pleased to spotlight Prof Miranda Fricker, who just wrapped up the 3-part annual Uehiro lecture series in Oxford. Her work on 'epistemic injustice' has been influential in the field of #ethics. For more on her work, see here: youtube.com/shorts/ta0pI...

#WomeninEthics Miranda Fricker

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Special issue now online: Gandhi's Ahimsaism, Insects, and Animal Sentience. Target article by @birchlse.bsky.social with commentaries from Angie Pepper, Gary O'Brien, Samantha Hurn & Alexander Badman-King. Now online, full publication in August: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/article/jpe-... #ahimsaism

Is ethical divestment possible? Join us for the biennial Lockwood memorial lecture on 25 June, where 2026 medallist Prof David Boonin will discuss a range of responses to this challenge. 5pm, Rewley House, Oxford www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/event/2026-l... bsky.app/profile/oxli...

2026 Lockwood Memorial Lecture

Lockwood Memorial Lecture

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Bitesize Ethics is back! Join us on Wednesdays for free, #online ethics classes exploring 'Life, death and difficult decisions', 24 Jun-12 Aug. No prior knowledge required, all welcome. Register: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-eth... @oxmedhum.bsky.social #bitesize #ethics #FreeEducation #life

Join us on 11 June for an interdisciplinary event on Medical Detachment (organised by Charlotte Dewarumez). Coffee and biscuits provided. We look forward to welcoming you. Free registration via Eventbrite, link in our website torch.ox.ac.uk/event/medica... @torchoxford.bsky.social @uehiro.ox.ac.uk

We're pleased to welcome our visiting student, Reem Ayad, who is visiting the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab at the UOI. Her research examines how relational contexts shape moral evaluations of AI agents. #Ethics #PracticalEthics #PhilosophyMatters

Register now to join online for Miranda Fricker's Uehiro Lectures - the first in the series takes place 1st June, 4:30pm, at the HB Allen Centre, Oxford: shorturl.at/G6KKA Prof. Fricker will be discussing her concepts of 'Communicative Blaming' and minimalistic blame in the first lecture.

This week for #Womeninethics, we spotlight Professor of Moral Philosophy, Cecile Fabre, known for her book 'Whose Body is it Anyway?' See our reel on her work here: youtube.com/shorts/xPgqH... #Ethics #PracticalEthics #PhilosophyMatters

#WomeninEthics Cecile Fabre

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Prof Julian Savulescu has been elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences as a 2026 Fellow. www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/article/juli...

Julian Savulescu elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences as a 2026 Fellow

The Academy of Medical Sciences has elected four University of Oxford biomedical and health scientists to its fellowship in 2026, including the UOI’s Prof Julian Savulescu

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This Friday 22nd May, UOI Deputy Director of Education Alberto Giubilini will give a keynote talk on AI and language. To attend, write to humanities@torch.ox.ac.uk #Ethics #PracticalEthics #AIEthics #AI

This week in #WomeninEthics, we would like to spotlight the multiple award-winning philosopher and novelist, Dame #Iris Murdoch. See our vid on her work here: youtube.com/shorts/RDeYx... "Virtue is... a task to come to see the world as it is.” #Ethics #Practicalethics #VirtueEthics

#WomeninEthics Dame Iris Murdoch

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Online tickets are now available for the live-stream of the Annual Uehiro Lectures on 'Moral Pressure: Bending Time, Shaping Wills', given by Prof Miranda Fricker. Please select the free 'online ticket' when booking: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/annual-uehir... #online #MirandaFricker #PhilosophyMatters

Uehiro Oxford Institute@uehiro.ox.ac.uk · 3mo ago

Annual Uehiro Lectures with Prof Miranda Fricker (Julius Silver Professor, NYU). The series 'Moral Pressures: Bending Time, Shaping Wills' will take place on June 1, 3 and 8, 4:30-6:15. All welcome: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/2026-lecture... #ethics #practicalethics #PhilosophyMatters #MirandaFricker

Recording now available: shorturl.at/kFhjR UOI Senior Research Fellow Alberto Giubilini discusses conscientious objection in healthcare, the concept of professionalism, and how the two might be in conflict when healthcare professionals are required to perform controversial medical procedures.

Is ethical divestment possible? Join us for the biennial Lockwood memorial lecture on 25 June, where 2026 medallist Prof David Boonin will discuss a range of responses to this challenge. 5pm, Rewley House, Oxford www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/event/2026-l... bsky.app/profile/oxli...

2026 Lockwood Memorial Lecture

Lockwood Memorial Lecture

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This week in #WomeninEthics, we feature the medical ethicist Stella Mosetti. “As Garrett Hardin reminded us, it takes acertain amount of courage to admit that certain problems do not have a technical solution.“ See our reel on Stella here: youtube.com/shorts/ip2fu...

#womeninethics Stella Mosetti

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