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Are universities losing the battle for free speech?

These online panel discussions will take place at 4pm on a Wednesday once a month, but the topics are decided according to world events and announced close to the date of the month’s panel. Recordings are available on YouTube via the Global Georgetown channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalGeorgetown/videos. To register and for more details about this series see: https://global.georgetown.edu/series/free-speech-at-the-crossroads-international-dialogues. This...

Blackfriars Carol Service

Blackfriars Hall St Giles, Oxford

Blackfriars staff, Fellows, teachers, lectors, and friends are warmly invited (& feel free to bring a guest) to our: ADVENT CAROL SERVICE & DRINKS RECEPTION 7pm - Carol Service, followed by Reception in the Aula (start: 7:45pm approx.) If you are unable to make both the Carol Service and Reception, you are most welcome to attend whichever one can make. The Carol Service and Drinks Reception...

Can we BioTechnologically Construct a Morally Better Human?

Blackfriars Hall St Giles, Oxford

In this presentation, I comparatively analyze traditional indirect means of moral enhancement, such as moral education within families and wider societies, with direct biotechnological means that affect a moral agent’s cognitive and emotive capacities. I raise several concerns with the latter and call for enhancing traditional methods of moral education. Nevertheless, certain methods of bioenhancement...