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Brave New World (the Forum)

2 March 2019, 11:00 am12:15 pm

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In this age of utopian technologies, we can design mechanical limbs for amputees and chemically engineer happiness for depressives. But should we? From the fluoride in our water to genetically modified babies, scientific advances pose complex new ethical questions. We ask discuss the major bioethical issues of our time. Is philosophy braced for this brave new world? Are scientists and engineers morally obliged to design a utopia? Or are things best left to ‘nature’?

 

Speakers
Richard Ashcroft
Professor of Bioethics, Queen Mary University of London
David Healy
Professor of Psychiatry, Bangor University
Emily Jackson
Professor of Law, LSE

Chair
Shahidha Bari
Fellow, Forum for Philosophy
Senior Lecturer in Romanticism, Queen Mary University of London

 

Part of the LSE Festival 2019

Details

Date:
2 March 2019
Time:
11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Event Category:
Website:
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/forthcomingevents/brave-new-world/

Organiser

Forum for Philosophy
Website:
https://www.philosophy-forum.org

Venue

Sheikh Zayed Theatre
New Academic Building, London School of Economics
London, WC2A 3LJ United Kingdom
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