The Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce the third annual Toronto Bioethics Workshop, taking place on Friday, June 12th and Saturday, June 13th at the St. George (downtown) campus of the University of Toronto.

The theme of the workshop is philosophical bioethics, with a specific emphasis on health, healthcare, and health research, including public health, research ethics, clinical ethics, neuroethics, and reproductive ethics.

Attendance is free but registration is required: https://forms.gle/ntKpYX5ANSktdcv17

Friday, June 12th

1:00 pm-2:15 pm Aaron Gray - Dementia-specific Advance Directives and the Continuous Self

2:30 pm-3:45 pm Sonya Ringer - What Do We Owe Your Mother?

4:00 pm-5:15 pm Bioethical Autonomy: We Cannot Balance What We Cannot Measure

Saturday, June 13th

9:00 am-10:15 am Chrysogonus Okwenna - Addiction as Socially Mediated Harm: Rethinking the Locus of Responsibility and Public Health Intervention

10:30 am-11:45 am Vida Panitch - Justice and the Sale of Body Parts

1:15 pm-2:30 pm Jared Smith - Reasons at the Bedside: A Critique of Reasons-Internalism in Medical Decision Making

2:45 pm-4:00 pm Isabella Braga - Defining Death at the Bedside: A Pluralistic Approach to Conflicting Standards

4:15 pm-5:45 pm Nir Eyal - Disclaiming Research Ethics