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As debates on assisted dying continue, new conversations are emerging around radical life extension — from epigenetic tweaks to digital afterlives.
Join us for a thought-provoking panel exploring what these ideas mean for human identity, suffering, aging, and mortality.
This Wednesday (12 Nov), join Professor Neil Levy, Senior Research Fellow at the UOI, for a distinguished lecture
📍 University of Birmingham
🕕 18:00–20:00
🎓 Free and open to all | Registration essential
Website to register: shorturl.at/415uc
🎄Christmas 2025 Bitesize has arrived!
We're excited to share our festive #bitesize events, which are now available for booking - they're free, online and everyone is welcome. Join Alberto Giubilini on the 16th December for 'The ethics of gift-giving' and Roger Crisp on the 19th December for an exploration of hedonism and the value of pleasure.
Registration and further details: https://www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-ethics-christmas-2025
#PhilosophyMatters #ethics #onlinelearning #FreeEducation #FestiveFun
Literature, Film, and the Desirability of Life Extension
2 December 09:30 to 16:30 , St Anne's College, Oxford
This conference invites scholars and practitioners of literature, film, and related fields to discuss topics relating to life extension, including boredom and alienation, identity and memory, aging and altruism, narrative and selfhood, and the ways cultural memory binds us across generations.
More info and registration: https://www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/event/literature-film-and-the-desirability-of-life-extension
We're looking forward to Kimberley Brownlee's first Uehiro Lecture which takes place tomorrow on the topic of 'Male Reproductive Dependency'. If you're joining us, see you at Keble's HB Allen Centre for a 4:30 start.
Published today, the latest issue of the Journal of Practical Ethics includes papers from Emily McTernan,
@jakoblohmar.bsky.social
and Arjan S. Heir.
The 2025 Oxford Uehiro Prize is now open!
UK undergrad or postgrad in Philosophy? Submit your essay (max 2000 words) on any topic in #PracticalEthics
Winners: £500 Runners-up: £200.
Finalists present at a public event - go to www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/oxford-uehiro-prize for more details on how to enter!
#Ethics #EssayCompetition #OxfordUehiroEssayPrize #PhilosophyMatters
Senior researcher Jonathan Pugh joins Audrey Carville on BBC Radio Ulster this Sunday at 9am for a discussion around the ethics of the forthcoming ‘Enhanced Games’ - listen in to find out more on the ethics of Aron D'Souza's #TEG
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007cphf
