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4th Annual NYU Philosophical Bioethics Workshop
4th Annual NYU Philosophical Bioethics Workshop
@ Center for Bioethics NYU
May 3 – May 4 all-day
The New York University Center for Bioethics is pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for the 4th Annual Philosophical Bioethics Workshop, to be held at NYU on Friday and Saturday, May 3-4, 2024. We are seeking to showcase new work in philosophical bioethics, broadly understood. This includes (but is not limited to) neuroethics, environmental ethics, animal ethics, reproductive ethics, research ethics, ethics of AI, data ethics, public health ethics, gender and race in bioethics, and clinical ethics. Our keynote speaker will be Professor Shelly Kagan, Yale University. There will be five[...]
Adapting Environmental Ethics for the Anthropocene
3:00 pm
Adapting Environmental Ethics for the Anthropocene
@ Lang Hall, 424 Hunter North
May 3 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
 Facts about the increasing collective human influence on biological systems, from local ecosystems to planetary-level Earth systems, support the proposal that we now live in the Anthropocene. What do such facts imply, if anything, about norms and values guiding land management and conservation practices going forward? Do facts about anthropogenic drivers that can result in undesirable and irreversible changes to ecological and Earth systems license further intentional interventions and underwrite calls for “planetary management”? What[...]
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Cryptocurrency: Commodity or Credit? Asya Passinsky (Central European University)
12:00 pm
Cryptocurrency: Commodity or Credit? Asya Passinsky (Central European University)
@ ZOOM
May 29 @ 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
Zoom link To this day, many theorists regard the commodity theory and the credit theory as the two main rival accounts of the nature of money. Yet cryptocurrency has revolutionized the institution of money in ways that most commodity and credit theorists could hardly have anticipated. Assuming that cryptocurrency is a new form of money, the question arises whether the commodity and credit theories can adequately account for it. This talk argues that they cannot.[...]
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