NUS Philosophical Bioethics Workshop

This workshop aims to bring together scholars and practitioners, both within Singapore and internationally, in the field of philosophical bioethics to discuss recent advancements and future directions. Presentations will feature philosophically-informed topics in clinical ethics, public health ethics, population-level bioethics, research ethics, neuroethics, reproductive ethics and AI ethics. Additionally, given the growing number of philosophers and bioethicists in Singapore working in areas the area of philosophical bioethics, this workshop aims to bring these scholars together in order to inspire further collaboration.

The workshop will be conducted in-person and registration is required.

Talks:

“The Uneven Costs of Predicting Health Risks and Its Implications on Distributive Ethics” Harisan Nasir 

“Beneficentrism in Bioethics” Owen Schaefer 

“Reconceptualising Regret” Chong-Ming Lim 

“Injustice Is Not Equivalent to Inequity: Reductive Assumptions about Health Inequities and the Application of Theories of Justice to Public Health” Carina Fourie

“Algorithmic Bioethics” Julian Savulescu

“Discrimination, Relevance, and Healthcare” Shalom Chalson

 “Universal Health Coverage:  Solution or Siren?  Some Preliminary Thoughts” Larry Temkin

“Neuroethics and the Moral Mind-Body Problem” Sean Aas 

“Do patients implicitly agree to treatment?” Stacy Chen 

“The Ambivalent Wisdom of Moral Disgust” Brandon Yip 

“Flexible and Inflexible Creation” Abelard Podgorski 

"The Ecological Morality of Nudging” Yeo Shang Long