Dear all, Prof Eve-Marie Engels is visiting us from Germany this week, which is a unique chance to meet her. If you would like to have a brief, informal chat with her on Sidgwick Site this Thursday or Friday, please sign up here: http://doodle.com/f7kgezcmxcd7p86h.
Meetings will take place in the atrium of the Alison Richard Building. *Professor Eve-Marie Engels* Professor Eve-Marie Engels studied philosophy and biology in Bochum, Germany, where she also received her PhD. The topic of her doctoral dissertation was the problem of teleology in the philosophy of science, and she specialised in evolutionary epistemology. She held positions in Germany and the USA before taking on the first German chair for bioethics in Tübingen in 1996. She has published numerous articles and books on topics ranging from philosophy of science to applied ethics to Charles Darwin. She has been a member of the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities which investigates the question of responsibility and applied ethics from an interdisciplinary perspective. Prof Engels has also held various advisory positions for policy-makers such as memberships of the German Ethics Council (2001-2007) and the scientific advisory board of the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (since 2014). We look forward to seeing you soon! Moral Psychology Group ---------------------------------------------------------------- Moral Challenges of New Reproductive Technologies Prof. Eve-Marie Engels (University of Tübingen) Prof. Martin Richards (Psychology, University of Cambridge) Chaired by Dr. Vasanti Jadva (Psychology, University of Cambridge) Thursday 21st of May, 2pm-3:30pm Room SG1 (Ground Floor), Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road Tea and biscuits will be served after the event at the Atrium. Abstracts Prof. Eve-Marie Engels: In Vitro Fertilization and its Long-Term Challenges For many people the primary purpose of the introduction of IVF was to alleviate infertility by assisted conception and to help couples to become parents. However, after its successful introduction IVF provided a range of further options, like preimplantation genetic diagnosis, embryonic stem cell research, and “social freezing”, the freezing of young women’s eggs with the option of thawing them for fertilisation in later life under more appropriate circumstances. All these techniques are bound up with a variety of ethical and social problems which have to be addressed. Prof Martin Richards: Ethical Challenges in the Use of Reproductive Donation The prime ethical issues in collaborative reproduction involving the use of donor insemination concern the relationships of the child with the intending parents and the donor. The historical development of arguments about the status of sperm donor offspring will be outlined and I will discuss contemporary ethical challenges in the use of donor sperm. _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
