{"id":6130,"date":"2019-03-02T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=6130"},"modified":"2021-10-12T15:56:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T14:56:37","slug":"brave-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/brave-new-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave New World"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000\">Richard Ashcroft\/ David Healy\/ Emily Jackson<\/span><!--more--><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Listen to the recording <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_events\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/publiclecturesandevents\/20190302_1100_lSEFestivalBraveNewWorld.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/span> or on <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yJWgdIm48Tk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In this\u00a0age of utopian technologies, we can design mechanical limbs for amputees and chemically engineer happiness for depressives. From the fluoride in our water to genetically modified babies, scientific advances pose complex new ethical questions. We\u00a0explore\u00a0the major bioethical issues of our time. Is philosophy braced for this brave new world? Are scientists and engineers\u00a0morally obliged to design\u00a0a utopia? Or are things best left to \u2018nature\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Speakers<br \/>\nRichard Ashcroft, Professor of Bioethics, Queen Mary University of London<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/rxisk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Healy<\/a><\/span>, Professor of\u00a0Psychiatry, Bangor University<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/law\/people\/academic-staff\/emily-jackson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emily Jackson<\/a><\/span>, Professor of Law, LSE<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Chair<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/shahidha-bari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shahidha Bari<\/a><\/span>, Fellow, Forum for Philosophy and Senior Lecturer in Romanticism, Queen Mary University of London<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Recorded on 2 March 2019 at the LSE<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Ashcroft\/ David Healy\/ Emily Jackson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":7269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[70,19,20],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-6130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-bioethics","tag-ethics","tag-politicalphilosophy"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2019\/03\/8-Brave-New-World-simple.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-1AS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6130"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15676,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions\/15676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6130"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}