DETAILS - times and location

Our conference will commence promptly at 9 am. It is recommended that all attendees arrive at 8.30am to allow time for registration and seat allocation. It is expected that the conference will conclude at approximately 4.45pm. The primary location for the conference is the ELISABETH MURDOCH LECTURE THEATRE at the University of Melbourne. A location map can be found by following a link below.

Wednesday 29 April 2015

ANNOUNCING.... Dr. Russell Blackford



Dr. Russell Blackford is a writer, philosopher and literary critic.  He is conjoint Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Fellow  of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Evolution and Technology.  His books include Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies (http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/humanity-enhanced), Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds (http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118736281.html) and a trilogy of books, Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles.  His interests include bioethics, cyber-culture and transhumanism.

Selections of Russell Blackford's fiction and non-fiction work

Dr Russell Blackford's presentation will be on:

What if nothing is sacred?  Politics and bioethics without sanctity

In his presentation, and drawing on the work of Jonathan Haidt and Philip Kitcher, Dr. Blackford will discuss the issue of where we are left in terms of regulatory policy and bioethical issues such as abortion, stem-cell research and human cloning if nothing is considered sacred or of infinite value, or if sacredness is considered irrelevant to political deliberation.




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