Inaugural Toronto Bioethics Workshop

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce the inaugural Toronto Bioethics Workshop, taking place Friday, May 17, and Saturday, May 18, on U of T’s St. George (downtown) campus.

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.

The keynote speaker for the workshop will be Dominic Wilkinson, a professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Oxford and the director of Medical Ethics, as well as deputy director at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Dr. Wilkinson is also a consultant in newborn intensive care.

Schedule

Friday, May 17

1:00–2:15 pm

Shivani Aggarwal

A Role for Epistemic Protectionism in Regulating Access to Medicine

2:30–3:45 pm

Ingrid Albrecht

Partiality and Future People

4:00–5:15 pm

Jess Flanigan

Pounds of Prevention

Saturday, May 18

9:00–10:15 am

Harry Lloyd

Addressing the Organ Supply Shortage

10:30–11:45 am

Bridie Hamilton & Ali Ladak

A Growing Challenge in Clinical Ethics Consultations: Patient-Initiated Non-Standard Care (PINSC) Requests

1:15–2:30 pm

Jack Harris

Autonomy in Algorithms? A Case Study in Medical Decision-Making

2:45–4:00 pm

Aaron Segal

Evidence, Alternatives, and the Prospect of Direct Benefit

4:15–5:45 pm

Dominic Wilkinson

Keynote: Grief and the Inconsolations of Philosophy