Walter Glannon - University of Calgary in Alberta
Walter Glannon
(October 2023)
Department of Philosophy
University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. NW
Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada
Email: wglannon@ucalgary.ca
Professional Status
Professor of Philosophy, University of Calgary (Emeritus, 2021)
Education
PhD in Philosophy, Yale University, November 1995. Dissertation: Responsible Persons
MA in Philosophy, Yale University, April 1993
PhD in Spanish Literature, The Johns Hopkins University, May 1982. Dissertation: The
Development of Unamuno’s Ethics
MA in Spanish Literature, The Johns Hopkins University, May 1979.
BA (magna cum laude) in Philosophy and Spanish Literature, Duke University, May
1977
Areas of Specialization
Bioethics, Neuroethics, Philosophy of Mind
Employment Experience
Professor of Philosophy, University of Calgary, January 2014-December 2020
Canada Research Chair in Medical Bioethics and Ethical Theory, University of Calgary, January 2006-December 2010
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Calgary, January 2006-December 2013
Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, January 2006-
December 2010
Assistant Professor, W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British
Columbia, September 2002-December 2005
Clinical Ethicist, Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia, September
2002-Decembr 2005
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Ethics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University,
January 2000-August 2001
Clinical Ethicist, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, January 2000-May 2001
Senior Fellow, Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL,
September 1998-June 1999
Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Calgary, September 1997-April 1998
Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia,
July 1995-June 1997
Assistant and Associate Professor of Spanish Language and Literature, Smith College,
September 1983-June 1993 (tenured 1989)
Other Professional Experience and Service
Western Canadian Philosophy Association Conference Planning and Review Committee,
2018
Delphi Panel on Mind, Brain and Education, Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, Principle
Investigator, Harvard Extension School, 2016-2017.
Supervisor of Johann Roduit, PhD, University of Zurich, Swiss National Science
Foundation International Short Visit, December 21, 2015-February 29, 2016. Project Title: “Science Fiction and the Ethics of Human Enhancement”
Undergraduate Studies Committee, Philosophy, University of Calgary, 2007-2008
Graduate Studies Committee, Philosophy, University of Calgary, 2008-2012, 2014-2017
Graduate Preliminary Exam Committee (Ethics), Philosophy, University of Calgary
2015-2017
Graduate University Scholarship Committee, University of Calgary, 2015
Advisory Committee, Montreal Neuroethics Network for Young Researchers, Institute de
recherches cliniques de Montreal, April 2015
Workshop Participant, “Vulnerability in Deep-Brain Stimulation for Treatment-
Refractory Depression,” Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal, September 27, 2012
Seminar Leader, “Consciousness and Neuroethics: Brain, Body, Mind and
Environment Interactions” Regina Apostolorum Pontifical
University, Rome, Italy, May 2-4, 2012.
Co-Investigator, New Emerging Team Research Group, “States of Mind: Emerging
Issues in Neuroethics” funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health
Research (CIHR), 2006-2011. Principal Investigator Francoise Baylis
Collaborator, CIHR Project “Patient and Caregiver Perspectives of Ethical and Social
Issues in Deep-Brain Stimulation for Neuropsychiatric Disorders,” 2012-2014.
Principal Investigator Eric Racine.
Abstract Review Committee for “Brain Matters I (Halifax, 2009)
Abstract Review Committee for “Brain Matters II (Montreal, 2011)
Abstract Review Committee for “Brain Matters III (Cleveland 2012)
Workshop Participant, “Neuroscience and Responsibility,” Technical University of Delft,
The Netherlands, February 10-12, 2010.
Conference Planning Committee, “Brain Matters: New Directions in Neuroethics,”
Halifax, September 2009.
Organizer and moderator of a CIHR-funded workshop on free will and neuroscience,
Banff, Alberta, May 9-10, 2008.
Reviewer of Applications for Tenure, Promotion and other Appointments:
Allan McCay, PhD, promotion to Senior Lecturer and Researcher, University of Sydney
Law School, April 2023
Georg Northoff, MD, PhD, appointment to Distinguished Research Chair in Brain-Mind
and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, February 2023
Veljko Duljevic, PhD, Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor, Department of
Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University, June 2021
L. Syd. M. Johnson, PhD, Michigan Technological University (Humanities), Tenure and
Promotion to Associate Professor, 2016. Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University, January 2020.
Tom Douglas, DPhil, appointment to Research Professor, Ghent University, May 2017,
and promotion to Professor, University of Oxford, March 2018.
Fabrice Jotterand, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin (Medical Ethics), Tenure and
Promotion to Associate Professor, September 2016
Charles Weijer, MD, Western University, appointment to the Royal Society of Canada,
March 2016
Michael Hauskeller, PhD, University of Exeter, UK (Philosophy), Promotion to Personal
Chair, 2015; Appointment as Head of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, February 2017
William Kasabenche, PhD., Washington State University (Philosophy), Tenure without
Promotion to Associate Professor, May 2012
Christine Harrison, PhD Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto (Clinical Medical Ethics),
Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor, October 2006
Marilyn Rugg, PhD, Colgate University (Spanish Literature), Tenure and Promotion to
Associate Professor, July 1991
Internal and External Examiner for MA Theses and PhD Dissertations
Syed Husaini, PhD Dissertation, “Consciousness,” Institute for Medical Humanities,
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, January 20, 2022
Andrew Peterson, PhD Dissertation, “Assessing Decision-Making Capacity after Severe
Brain Injury,” Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, July 5, 2016
Samantha Copeland, PhD Dissertation, “The Case of the Triggered Memory:
Serendipitous Discovery and the Ethics of Clinical Research, Philosophy, Dalhousie University, September 4, 2015
Gordon Cooper, MA Thesis, “The Luck Objection to Libertarianism,” Philosophy,
University of Calgary, May 22, 2015
Luca Casartelli, PhD Dissertation, “Motor Cognition and Neuroepistemology,”
Philosophy/Bioethics, University of Geneva, November 11, 2014
Tess Murphy, MA Thesis, “Mora Obligation, Luck and Alternative Possibilities,”
Philosophy, University of Calgary, December 6, 2012
Elske Straver, MA Thesis, “The Nature of Belief,” Philosophy, University of Calgary,
August 15, 2008
Administrative, Editorial and Committee Work
Editorial Boards: AJOB-Neuroscience; Neuroethics; Springer Book Series: Advances in
Neuroethics
Scientific Review Committee, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, 2007
Peer Reviewer for Canada Research Chairs, January 2006-December 2010
Acting Director of Undergraduate Medical Ethics Education, University of Calgary,
Faculty of Medicine, August-December 2006
Member of Forum Recommendations Group, Canadian Council on Organ Donation and
Transplantation, Forum on Donation after Cardiocirculatory Death, Vancouver, February 17-20, 2005.
British Columbia Children’s Hospital Ethics Committee, September 2002-December
2005 (Chair, September 2003-December 2005)
British Columbia Women’s Hospital Ethics Committee, September 2002-December 2005
Mortality Review Committee, British Columbia Children’s and Women’s Hospital,
January 2003-December 2005
Research Ethics Committee, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, January 2000-May 2001
Clinical Ethics Committee, Jewish General Hospital, January 2000-May 2001 (Chair
September 2000-May 2001)
Director, Master’s Specialization in Bioethics, Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill
University, September 2000-August 2001
Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Smith College, April 1991-March 1993
Reviewer for Journals, Book Publishers and Funding Agencies
Academic Press/Elsevier, American Journal of Bioethics—Neuroscience, American Journal of Bioethics—Primary Research, American Journal of Pharmacogenomics, American Journal of Transplantation, American Philosophical Quarterly; Archives of Internal Medicine; Brain Topography; Bioethica Forum; Bioethics; BMC Medical Ethics; British Medical Bulletin; Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics; Cambridge University Press (US and UK); Canadian Journal of Philosophy; Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Conference; Criminal Law and Philosophy; Critical Care Medicine; Deep Brain Stimulation; Developing World Bioethics; Diametros; European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience; Frontiers in Neuroscience; Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience; Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience; Foundation for Polish Science; Ghent University Research Council; International Journal of Law and Psychiatry; Journal of Applied Philosophy; Journal of Medical Ethics; Journal of the American Philosophical Association; Journal of Philosophy; Law and Philosophy; Leverhulme Trust; McGraw-Hill Publishers; Medicine, Health Care & Philosophy; Milbank Quarterly; Mind; MIT Press; The Lancet; The Lancet Neurology; Monist; Moody Foundation (Texas); Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research; Neuroethics; Journal of Neurosurgery; Oxford University Press (US, UK, Canada); Pediatrics & Child Health; Pharmaceutical Medicine; Philosophical Psychology; Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine; Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology; Polity Press; Progress in Neurobiology; Public Affairs Quarterly; Routledge Taylor & Francis Publishers; Science; Science and Engineering Ethics; Science & Technology; Springer Publishers; Swiss National Science Foundation; Synthese; Templeton Foundation; Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics; Trends in Cognitive Sciences; UCL(University College London) Press; Wellcome Trust; Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference; Westview Press, World Neurosurgery
Teaching Experience
Philosophy and Neuroscience,” winter 2016, University of Calgary, Department of
Philosophy
“Ancient Philosophy,” fall 2015, fall 2016, fall 2018, University of Calgary, Department
of Philosophy
“Wittgenstein,” fall 2014, University of Calgary, Department of Philosophy
“Neuroscience: History, Philosophy, Society and Ethics,” University of Calgary, BSc
Program in Neuroscience, fall 2010--2013 (team taught with Keith Sharkey, Andrew Bullock, Frank Stahnisch and Manuel Bulliger)
“Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Law: Neuroscience and Law,” fall 2013, University
of Calgary, Department of Philosophy
“Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Consciousness,” fall 2012, University of
Calgary, Department of Philosophy
“Death: Metaphysical and Ethical Issues,” University of Calgary, Department of
Philosophy, fall 2011, 2012, 2016, 2019
“Morality, Virtue, and Society,” University of Calgary, Department of Philosophy,
winter 2011
“Bioethics,” University of Calgary, Department of Philosophy, winter and fall
2007, fall 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019, winter 2015 and 2016
“Neuroethics,” Graduate/Undergraduate Seminar, University of Calgary,
Department of Philosophy, winter 2006 and 2011 terms
Medical Student Teaching (lectures and small-group case-based discussions), University
of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, January 2006-January 2010
Clinical Ethics Rounds for Neurology Residents, University of Calgary, Faculty of
Medicine Fall 2007-Winter 2010 (bi-monthly)
Clinical Ethics Rounds for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Medical Genetics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatric Residents, Pediatric Nephrology, Neurology, Oncology/Hematology, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Perinatology at British Columbia Children’s and Women’s Health Centre and Sunny Hill Health Centre, 2002-2005
Ethical Issues in Palliative Care and HIV-AIDS, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC,
June 2-9, 2003
University of British Columbia Mini-Med School, Research Ethics, April 2003
Lectures on Research Ethics for Medical Students, University of British Columbia
Faculty of Medicine, fall 2002-spring 2003
Seminar on Bioethical Theory, Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, Fall 2000
Seminar on Genetics and Ethics, Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, winter
2000.
Internal Medicine Resident Ethics Rounds, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, February
2000-February 2001 (monthly)
Ethics Section Leader, Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, September-
December 1998
Bioethics, University of Calgary, Department of Philosophy, Fall 1997 and Winter 1998
Contemporary Moral Problems, University of Calgary, Department of Philosophy,
Winter 1998
Ancient Philosophy and Ethics, Yale University, Department of Philosophy (Teaching
Assistant), fall 1993 and spring 1994
Spanish Language and Literature, Smith College, September 1983-May 1993
Spanish Language and Literature, The Johns Hopkins University, September 1982-May 1983
Directed Studies
Undergraduate:
Jordan Erlandson, “Abortion and the Non-Identity Problem,” University of Calgary,
Winter 2015
Graduate:
Brayden Mills-Smith, “Addiction,” University of Calgary, Fall 2016
Postdoctoral:
Johann Roduit, PhD, “Enhancement and Posthumanism,” University of Calgary, Winter
2016
Graduate Supervision
Maya Goldenberg (BA), Master’s Bioethics Program, Philosophy, McGill University MA
Thesis: “The Discourse of Bioethics,” completed October 2001.
Dominique Robert (RN) Master’s Bioethics Program, Experimental Medicine, McGill
University. MSc Thesis “Humane Bioethics,” completed October 2001)
Fabian Ballesteros (MD), Master’s Bioethics Program, Experimental Medicine, McGill
University. MSc Thesis: “Sanctity of Life,” completed November 2001.
Natalie Bandrauk (MD), Master’s Bioethics Program, Experimental Medicine, McGill
University. MSc Thesis: “Medical Futility,” completed August 2002.
J. David Guerrero (MA), Philosophy, University of Calgary (co-
supervisor with Dr. John Baker), PhD Dissertation: “Valuing Concepts of Health and Disease,” completed August 2011.
Kiran Pohar Manhas (MSc), Medical Science, University of Calgary (co-
supervisor with Dr. Ian Mitchell). PhD Dissertation: “The Ethics of Home Care for Ventilator-Dependent Children,” completed June 2011.
Raymond Aldred (BA), Philosophy, University of Calgary, MA Thesis:
“Broadening the Boundaries of Agency: Cognitive Disability, Agency, and Autonomy,” completed July 2013
Ying-Tung Lin (MA), Philosophisches Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Mainz,
Germany, PhD Thesis: “Conceptual and Normative Issues of Memory Enhancement,” (co-supervisor with Dr. Thomas Metzinger), completed July 2014
Brayden Mills-Smith (BA), Philosophy, University of Calgary, MA Thesis: “Addiction
as an Excuse,” completed April 2017
Justin Caouette (BA, MA), Philosophy, University of Calgary, PhD Dissertation,
“Assessing the Moral Evaluations of Pharmacological Enhancements,” completed May 2018
Awards and Fellowships
Robert and Russell Moody Lecture on Cognitive Enhancement in the “Birth, Life, and
Death of the Brain” series, Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, February 8, 2018.
Student Union Teaching Excellence Award, University of Calgary, March 2017
Fellow of The Hastings Center (elected March 2016)
John P. McGovern, M.D., Memorial Award in the Medical Humanities (lecture), Institute
for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, February 6, 2012
Visiting Research Fellow, Brocher Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland, May 1-31, 2011
and April 1-30, 2013
John Templeton Foundation Fellowship, “Diminishing and Enhancing Free Will,” 2011-
2014.
Visiting Scholar, Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical
Branch, Galveston, TX, February 2012.
Canada Research Chair in Medical Bioethics and Ethical Theory, Tier 2, Canadian
Institutes of Health Research, University of Calgary, January 2006-December 2010.
Senior Fellow, Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL,
September 1998-June 1999
Clinical Ethics Fellow, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of
Chicago School of Medicine, September 1998-1999
Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British
Columbia, July 1995-June 1997
Guest Editor
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 65, July/August 2019. Special Thematic
Issue on “Neuroscience, Law and Ethics” in honor of the work of Laurence Tancredi
Journal of Ethics in Mental Health 2 (2), December 2007. Special Thematic Issue on
“Neurodiversity”
Publications
Books
The Neurodynamic Soul, Grant Gillett first author, Walter Glannon second author.
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 (New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science Series).
Immune Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2023 (Cambridge Elements Series)
The Ethics of Consciousness, Cambridge University Press, 2022 (Cambridge
Elements Series)
Neural Prosthetics: Neuroscientific and Philosophical Aspects of Changing the Brain,
Oxford University Press, 2021
The Neuroethics of Memory: From Total Recall to Oblivion. Cambridge University Press,
2019
Psychiatric Neuroethics: Studies in Research and Practice, Oxford University Press,
International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry Series, 2019.
Free Will and the Brain: Neuroscientific. Philosophical and Legal Perspectives (ed.).
Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Brain, Body, and Mind: Neuroethics with a Human Face, Oxford University Press, 2011.
Bioethics and the Brain, Oxford University Press, US, 2007. Winner, CHOICE
Outstanding Academic Title for 2007
Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science: Essential Readings in Neuroethics (ed.),
Dana Press, 2007.
Biomedical Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2005 (Fundamentals of Philosophy Series)
The Mental Basis of Responsibility, Ashgate, 2002 (Republished by Routledge, Taylor &
Francis, 2018).
Contemporary Readings in Biomedical Ethics (ed.), Wadsworth, 2002
Genes and Future People: Philosophical Issues in Human Genetics, Westview Press,
2001 (Republished by Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2018)
Books Under Contract
Neuroethics: An Introduction, MIT Press
Articles and Chapters
2023. W. Glannon, “Reconsidering the Many Disorders of Consciousness. Cambridge
Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 32: 1-4.
2023, W. Glannon, “Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment: Ethically Justified? Journal of
Ethics in Mental Health 18 (2) e1-3.
2023. W. Glannon, Ethical Issues in Neuroscience Research, in A. Zima and D.
Weisstub, eds., Medical Research Ethics: Challenges in the 21st Century. Berlin: Springer, 133-149.
2023. R. Steiner and W. Glannon, “How the Websites of High-Volume US Centers
Address the Risks of Living Kidney Donation. Clinical Transplantation 37:
e15054 6pp. doi: 10.111/ctr.15054.
2023. R. Steiner and W. Glannon, ”Teaching and Testing the Knowledge and Thinking
of Living Organ Donors. In R. Gruessner and E. Benedetti, eds., Living Donor Organ Transplantation, second edition. San Diego: Elsevier/Academic Press.
2022. W. Glannon, “Ethical and Social Aspects of Neural Prosthetics,” Progress in
Biomedical Engineering 4: 012004. Doi: 10.1088/2516-1091/ac23e6.
2022. Glannon, “Biomarkers in Psychiatric Disorders,” Cambridge Quarterly of
Healthcare Ethics 31: 444-452.
2021. W. Glannon, “Communicating with Brain-Computer Interfaces in Medical
Decision-Making.” In I. Opris, M. Lebedev, and M. Casanova, eds., Modern Approaches to Augmentation of Brain Function, Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience series. Berlin: Springer, 141-161
2021. W. Glannon, “Pathogens and Humans,” Hastings Bioethics Forum, November 26.
2021. W. Glannon, “What Every Prospective Living Kidney Donor Should Know,”
Hastings Bioethics Forum, August 3.
2020. G. Gillett and W. Glannon, “The Neurodynamics of Free Will, Mind and Matter
18: 159-173.
2020. W. Glannon, “Mind-Brain Dualism in Psychiatry: Ethical Implications,” Frontiers
in Psychiatry 11: 85. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00085, 1-4. Reprinted in Ethics in
Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, M. Trachsel, C. Geppert and R. Weintraub Brendel, eds. Frontiers Research Topics; Lausanne, CH, 2022, 8-11.
2020. W. Glannon, “Neural Prosthetics, Behavior Control and Criminal Responsibility.”
In N. Vincent, A McCay and T. Nadelhoffer, eds., Neuroenhancement and the Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 90-113.
2020. W. Glannon, “Clinical and Normative Aspects of Forgetting,” Journal of Applied
Research in Memory and Cognition 9: 48-51
2019. W. Glannon, “Neuroscience, Law and Ethics,” International Journal of Law and
Psychiatry 65 (July/August): 1-4
2018. W. Glannon, “Behavior Control, Meaning and Neuroscience,” in G. Caruso and
O. Flanagan, eds., Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press, 146-161
2018. W. Glannon, “Framing the Debates over Enhancement,” in M. Bess and D.W.
Pasulka, eds., Transhumanism. New York: Macmillan, 247-258
2018. W. Glannon, “The Long-Term Risk of Living Kidney Donation”
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 27: 29-35
2018. W. Glannon, “Moral Enhancement as a Collective Action Problem,” Royal
Institute of Philosophy Supplement 83. M. Hauskeller and L. Coyne, eds.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 59-85.
2018. W. Glannon, “Brain Implants: Implications for Free Will.” In K. Rommelfanger
and L.S. Johnson, eds., Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 319-334.
2018. J. Roduit., T. Eichinger and W. Glannon. “Science Fiction and Human
Enhancement: Radical Life Extension in the Movie ‘In Time,’ Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 21: 287-293.
2017. W. Glannon, “Brain Implants to Erase Memories,” Frontiers in Neuroscience 11:
584.. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00584, 1-4pp. Reprinted in M. Lebedev, I. Opris
and M.-F. Casanova, eds., Augmentation of Brain Function: Facts, Fiction and
Controversy ebook, Frontiers Journals Publishing, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2017. W. Glannon, “Some Questions about Brain-Based Mind-Reading in Forensic
Psychiatry,” Journal of Law and the Biosciences 4: 605-610
2017. W. Glannon, “The Evolution of Neuroethics, in E. Racine and John Aspler, eds.,
Debates about Neuroethics. London and Berlin: Springer, 19-44.
2017. W. Glannon, “Psychopathy and Responsibility: Empirical Data and Normative
Judgments,” Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 24: 13-15
2017. W. Glannon, “Erasing Memories,” Neuroethics Blog Reader, Emory University,
13-15.
2016. W. Glannon, “The Value and Disvalue of Consciousness,” Cambridge Quarterly
of Healthcare Ethics 25: 600-612.
2016. W. Glannon, “Commentary: Stabilizing Constructs Through Collaboration Across
Different Research Fields As A Way to Foster the Integrative Approach to the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Project, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience July 16. 363. doi: 10.3381/fnhum.2016.00363
2016. W. Glannon, “Brain-Computer Interfaces in End-of-Life Decision-Making,”
Brain-Computer Interfaces 3: 133-139
2016. W. Glannon, “Ethical Issues in Neuroprosthetics,” Journal of Neural Engineering
13, February 9, e021002, 1-22
2016. W. Glannon and C. Ineichen, “Philosophical Aspects of Closed-Loop
Neuroscience, in A. El Hady, ed., Closed-Loop Neuroscience. San Diego:
Elsevier/Academic Press, 259-270
2015. W. Glannon, “Research Domain Criteria: A Final Paradigm for Psychiatry?”
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00488, September
8, 1-4.
2015. W. Glannon, “Neuromodulation and the Mind-Brain Relation,” Frontiers in
Integrative Neuroscience, doi: 10.3389/fnint.2015.00022, March 14, 1-3
2015. W. Glannon, “Psychiatric Neuroethics II: Less Invasive and Non-Invasive
Interventions,” in Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics, Volume 2, J. Sadler,
K.W.M. Fulford and CW van Staden, eds., doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732372.013.31, January 15, 1-18
2015. W. Glannon, Psychiatric Neuroethics I: Deep Brain Stimulation and Ablation,”
in Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics, Volume 2, Sadler, Fulford and Van Staden, eds. doi: 1093/oxfordhb/9780198732372.013.30, January 15, 1-13.
2015. W. Glannon, “Neuroethics: Cognitive Enhancement,” in S. Goldberg, ed., Oxford
Philosophy Handbooks Online, doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935314.013.43, January 10, 1-13.
2015. W. Glannon, “Free Will in Light of Neuroscience,” in Glannon, ed., Free Will and
the Brain: Neuroscientific, Philosophical and Legal Perspectives, 3-24.
2015. W. Glannon, “Neuroethics.” In Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, H. Ten Have,
ed. Dordrecht: Springer, 1999-2010
2014. W. Glannon. “Reflections on Neuroenhancement,” in N. Levy and J. Clausen,
eds., Springer Handbook of Neuroethics, 1251-1265.
2014. W. Glannon, “Anesthesia, Amnesia, and Harm,” Journal of Medical Ethics 40:
651-657
2014. W. Glannon, “Intraoperative Awareness: Consciousness, Memory and Law.”
Journal of Medical Ethics 40: 663-664
2014. C. Ineichen, W. Glannon, Y. Temel, C. Baumann and O. Surucu. “A Critical
Reflection on the Technological Development of deep brain stimulation (DBS).” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00730. September 17, 1-7
2014. W. Glannon, “The Limitations and Potential of Neuroimaging in the Criminal
Law,” Journal of Ethics 18: 153-170
2014. W. Glannon, “Taylor on Postmortem Organ Procurement,” Journal of Medical
Ethics 40: 637-638.
2014. E. Bell, E. Racine, W. Glannon, et al. “Beyond Consent in Research:
Revisiting Vulnerability in Deep-Brain Stimulation for Psychiatric Disorders,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 23: 361-368
2014. W. Glannon, “Ethical Issues with Brain-Computer Interfaces,” Frontiers in
Systems Neuroscience, doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00136, July 25, 1-3.
2014. W.Glannon, “Philosophical Reflections on Therapeutic Brain Stimulation,”
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, doi: 10.3389.frcom.2014.00054, May 15, 1-3.
2014. W.Glannon, “Prostheses for the Will,” Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, doi:
10.3389/fnsys.2014.00079, May 5, 1-3.
2014. W. Glannon, “Intervening in the Psychopath’s Brain,” Theoretical Medicine and
Bioethics 35: 43-57
2014. W. Glannon, “Neuromodulation, Agency, and Autonomy,” Brain Topography 27:
46-54
2013. N. Lipsman and W. Glannon. “Brain, Mind, and Machine: What Are the
Implications of Deep Brain Stimulation for Perceptions of Personal Identity, Agency and Free Will? Bioethics 27: 465-470
2013. W. Glannon. “Prognosis Matters, not Diagnosis.” American Journal of
Bioethics—Neuroscience 4 (4): 31-32
2013. W. Glannon. “The Moral Insignificance of Death in Organ Donation,” Cambridge
Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 22: 192-202
2013. W. Glannon, “Burdens of ANH Outweigh Benefits in the Minimally Conscious
State,” Journal of Medical Ethics 39: 551-552
2013. W. Glannon, “Brain Injury and Survival,’ in J, Taylor, ed. The Metaphysics and
Ethics of Death (New York: Oxford University Press), 245-266
2013. W. Glannon, “Psychopharmacology and Functional Neurosurgery: Manipulating
Memory, Thought, and Mood,” in R. Sandler, ed., Ethics and Emerging Technologies New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 164-176
2012. W. Glannon, “Obsessions, Compulsions, and Free Will,” Philosophy, Psychiatry
& Psychology 19: 333-337
2012. W. Glannon. “Neuropsychological Aspects of Enhancing the Will,” The Monist
95: 378-398.
2012. L. Ross, W. Glannon, L. Gottlieb, and R. Thistlethwaite, “Different Standards Are
Not Double Standards: All Elective Surgical Patients Are Not Alike,” Journal of
Clinical Ethics 23 (2): 119-129.
2012. W. Glannon, “Neuroethics/Brain Imaging” Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics,
2nd edition, volume 3, R. Chadwick, ed. (San Diego: Academic Press), 216-224.
2011. W. Glannon. “Diminishing and Enhancing Free Will,” American Journal of
Bioethics Neuroscience 2 (3): 15-26.
2011. W. Glannon, “Donation, Death, and Harm,” American Journal of Bioethics 11 (8):
48-49.
2011. W. Glannon, “Is it Unethical for Doctors to Encourage Healthy Adults to Donate a
Kidney to a Stranger? Yes.” British Medical Journal 343: 1040-1041.
2011. W. Glannon, “Neuroscience’s Threat to Free Will,” in H. Samuelson and K.
Mossman, eds., Building Better Humans? Refocusing the Debate on Transhumanism. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang, 335-353.
2011. W. Glannon, “Brain, Behavior, and Knowledge,” Neuroethics 4(3): 191-194.
2010. W. Glannon, “Neuroscience and Norms,” AJOB Neuroscience 1 (4): 31-32.
2010. W. Glannon, “The Neuroethics of Memory,” in S. Nalbantian, P. Matthews, and
J. L. McClelland, eds., The Memory Process: Neuroscientific and Humanistic Perspectives (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), 233-251.
2010. W. Glannon, “Consent to Deep-Brain Stimulation for Neuropsychiatric
Disorders,” Journal of Clinical Ethics 21: 105-112.
2010. W. Glannon, “Afterword” to J. Giordano and B. Gordijn, eds., Scientific, and
Philosophical Perspectives in Neuroethics, Cambridge University Press, 370-374.
2010. W. Glannon, “What Neuroscience Can (and Cannot) Tell Us about Criminal
Responsibility,” in M. Freeman, ed., Current Legal Issues, volume 13, “Law and Neuroscience” (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 13-28.
2009. W. Glannon, “Neuroscience, Free Will, and Responsibility,” Journal of Ethics in
Mental Health 4 (2) (2009): e1-6.
2009. P. Couillard, K. Brownell, and W. Glannon, “Educating Future Neuroscience
Clinicians in Neuroethics: A Report of One Program’s Work-in-Progress,” Journal of Ethics in Mental Health 4 (2): e1-4.
2009. W. Glannon, “Free Riding and Organ Donation,” Journal of Medical Ethics 35:
590-591. Reprinted in J. Fisher, J. Russell, A. Browne and L. Burkholder, eds.,
Biomedical Ethics: A Canadian Focus, second edition, 2012, 431-434.
2009. W. Glannon, “Our Brains Are Not Us,” Bioethics 23 (6): 321-329
2009. W. Glannon, “Stimulating Brains, Altering Minds,” Journal of Medical Ethics
35: 289-29
2009. W. Glannon, “Responsibility and Priority in Liver Transplantation,” Cambridge
Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 18: 23-35. Reprinted in J. Pierce and G. Randels, eds., Contemporary Bioethics: a Reader with Cases (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) and in F. Baylis et al., eds., Health Care Ethics in Canada, Third Edition (Toronto: Nelson, 2012), 122-129.
2008. W. Glannon, “The Blessing and Burden of Biological Psychiatry,” Journal of
Ethics in Mental Health 3 (2): e5-7
2008. W. Glannon, “Neurostimulation and the Minimally Conscious State,” Bioethics
22: 337-345
2008. W. Glannon, “Moral Responsibility and the Psychopath,” Neuroethics 1, 3: 158-
166.
2008. W. Glannon, “Psychopharmacological Enhancement,” Neuroethics 1,1: 45-54.
Reprinted in S. Hong and D. Jang, eds., Man in the Brain and Brain in Society: Introduction to Neuroethics. Seoul, South Korea: Bada Publishing, forthcoming.
2008. W. Glannon, “Underestimating the Risk in Living Kidney Donation,” Journal
of Medical Ethics 34: 127-128.
2008. W Glannon, “The Case against Conscription of Cadaveric Organs for
Transplantation,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 17: 330-336.
2008. W. Glannon, “Decelerating and Arresting Human Aging,” in B. Gordijn and
Ruth Chadwick, eds., Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity (Berlin & London: Springer, 188-203
2008. W. Glannon, “Deep-Brain Stimulation for Depression,” HEC Forum 20 (4):
325-335
2008. W. Glannon, “Organ Donation,” Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Canada Bioethics Education Project
2007. W. Glannon, General and Section Introductions to Defining Right and Wrong in
Brain Science, Glannon, ed., xiii-xviii, 3-5, 63-65, 95-98, 171-174, 233-236, 315-318
2007. W. Glannon, ”Neurodiversity,” Journal of Ethics in Mental Health 2 (3): e6-11
2007. W. Glannon, Editorial Essay for Thematic Issue on “Neurodiversity,” Journal of
Ethics in Mental Health 2 (2): e5.
2007. W. Glannon, “Just Deserts?” Hastings Center Report 32 (3): 5.
2007. W. Glannon, “Persons, Metaphysics, and Ethics, American Journal of Bioethics:
Neuroscience 7 (1): 68-69
2007. W. Glannon. “Constructive Memory and Memory Enhancement,” Hasting Center
Bioethics Forum, May 19, 1-3
2006. L. F. Ross and W. Glannon, “A Compounding of Errors: The Case of Bone
Marrow Donation between Non-Intimate Siblings,” Journal of Clinical Ethics 17:
220-226
2006. S. Shemie, A. Baker, W. Glannon, et al. “Donation after Cardiocirculatory Death
in Canada,” Canadian Medical Association Journal 175 (10): S1-S24
2006. W. Glannon, “Phase I Oncology Trials: Why the Therapeutic Misconception
Will not Go Away,” Journal of Medical Ethics 32: 252-255.
2006. W. Glannon, “Free Will and Moral Responsibility in the Age of Neuroscience,”
Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics 13 (2): 1-2.
2006. W. Glannon, “Neuroethics,” Bioethics 20: 37-52. Reprinted in B. Steinbock, J.
Arras, and A. J. London, eds. Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, seventh edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009), 856-869.
2006. W. Glannon, “Genetic Enhancement,” in D. DeGrazia and T. Mappes, eds.,
Biomedical Ethics, Sixth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill: 601-606. Reprinted
in L. Vaughn, ed., Doing Ethics: Moral Reasoning and Contemporary Issues, Fourth Edition (New York: W.W Norton, 2015): 222-225 and in Vaughn, Bioethics: Principles, Issues and Cases, Fourth Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, 776-779.
2006. W. Glannon, “Psychopharmacology and Memory,” Journal of Medical Ethics
32: 164-168. Reprinted in Glannon ed., Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science: Essential Readings in Neuroethics, 258-270
2006. W. Glannon, “Commentary on the Case of a Patient with Psychosis and
Cirrhosis,” Journal of Ethics in Mental Health 1(1): e8.
2005. W. Glannon, “Neurobiology, Neuroimaging, and Free Will,” Midwest Studies in
Philosophy 29: 68-82. Reprinted in Steinbock et al., Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, 2009, 903-913.
2005. W. Glannon, “Medicine through the Novel: Lying Awake, Journal of Medical
Ethics: Medical Humanities 31: 31-34
2005. W. Glannon and L. F. Ross, “Obligation and Risk-Benefit Assessment in Living
Organ Donation: A Reply to Aaron Spital,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare
Ethics 14: 191-198.
2005. W. Glannon, “Ethical Issues Surrounding Organ Donation after
Cardiocirculatory Death,” Canadian Council on Donation and Transplantation, Edmonton, AB, Canada: 18 pp. .
2004. W. Glannon, “Transcendence and Healing,” Journal of Medical Ethics: Medical
Humanities 30: 70-73.
2003. W. Glannon, “Endophenotypes,” Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 10: 277-
284
2003. W. Glannon, “Genetic Intervention and Personal Identity,” in B. Almond and M.
Parker, eds., Ethical Issues in the New Genetics: Are Genes Us? (Aldershot: Ashgate): 75-88.
2003. W. Glannon, “Do the Sick Have a Right to Cadaveric Organs?” Journal of
Medical Ethics 29: 153-156
2003. L. F. Ross, W. Glannon, M. Josephson, and R. Thistlethwaite, ”All Living
Donors should not be Treated Equally,” Transplantation 74: 1762-1763
2002. W. Glannon, “The Psychology and Physiology of Depression,” Philosophy,
Psychiatry & Psychology 9: 265-269.
2002. W. Glannon, “Depression as a Mind-Body Problem,” Philosophy, Psychiatry &
Psychology 9: 243-254
2002. L. F. Ross, W. Glannon, M. Josephson, R. Thistlethwaite, “Should All Living
Donors Be Treated Equally?” Transplantation 74: 418-421.
2002. W. Glannon and L. F. Ross, “Do Genetic Relationships Create Moral Obligations
in Organ Transplantation?” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 11 (April): 153-159
2002. W. Glannon and L. F. Ross, “Are Doctors Altruistic?” Journal of Medical
Ethics 28 (4): 68-69.
2002. W. Glannon, “Extending the Human Life Span,” Journal of Medicine and
Philosophy 27: 339-354
2002. W. Glannon, “Identity, Prudential Concern, and Extended Lives,” Bioethics 16:
266-281
2002. W. Glannon, “Reply to Harris,” Bioethics 16: 292-297.
2002. W. Glannon, “Neuroimaging and Determining Responsibility,” Cerebrum 4
(December): 5-6.
2002. W. Glannon, “Comments on Free Will,” in S. Marcus, ed. Neuroethics: Mapping
the Field. Washington, DC: Dana Press, 26-27.
2002. W. Glannon, Section Introductions to Contemporary Readings in Biomedical
Ethics, Glannon, ed., 34-36, 98-101, 165-167, 248-250, 324-326, 401-404.
2002. W. Glannon, “Introduction” to Contemporary Readings in Biomedical Ethics,
Glannon, ed., 1-33.
2001. W. Glannon, “Rationing Health Care in the United States and Canada, in E.H.
Loewy and R.S. Loewy, eds., Changing Health Care Systems from Ethical, Economic, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives (New York: Kluwer/Plenum Publishers): 143-150
2001. W. Glannon, “Persons, Lives, and Posthumous Harms,” Journal of Social
Philosophy 32: 127-142
2000. W. Glannon, “Tracing the Soul: Medical Decisions at the Margins of Life,”
Christian Bioethics 6: 48-68
1999. W. Glannon, “Responsibility and Control: Fischer and Ravizza’s Theory of
Moral Responsibility,” Law and Philosophy 18: 187-213
1999. W. Glannon, “The Case for Libertarian Free Will,” Inquiry 42: 285-303.
1999. W. Glannon, “Diamond and Daniels on Medical Rationing,” Economics and
Philosophy 15: 119-125
1998. W. Glannon, “Moral Responsibility and Personal Identity,” American
Philosophical Quarterly 35: 231-249.
1998. W. Glannon, “The Ethics of Human Cloning,” Public Affairs Quarterly 12: 287-
305. Reprinted in M.R. Ruse and A. Sheppard, eds., Cloning: Responsible Science or Technomadness? (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Press, 2001): 153-171
1998. W. Glannon, “Genes, Embryos, and Future People,” Bioethics 12: 187-211
Reprinted in The Bioethics Reader, R. Chadwick et al., eds. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), 408-433.
1998. W. Glannon, “Responsibility, Alcoholism, and Liver Transplantation,” Journal
of Medicine and Philosophy 23: 31-49. Reprinted in J. Pierce and G. Randels, Contemporary Bioethics: A Reader with Cases (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009),
1997. W. Glannon, “Sensitivity and Responsibility for Consequences,” Philosophical
Studies 87: 223-233
1997. W. Glannon, “Critical Notice of F.M. Kamm, Morality, Mortality, Volume I:
Death and Whom to Save from It, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 27: 407-421.
1997. W. Glannon, “Psychopathy and Responsibility,” Journal of Applied Philosophy
14: 263-275.
1997. W. Glannon, “Semicompatibilism and Anomalous Monism,” Philosophical
Papers 26: 211-231
1996. W. Glannon, “The Morality of Selective Termination,” Biomedical Ethics
Reviews, Volume 13: Reproduction, Technology, and Rights, J.M. Humber and R.F. Almeder, eds. (Totowa, NJ: Humana Press): 93-109.
1995. W. Glannon, “Equality, Priority, and Numbers,” Social Theory and Practice 21:
427-455
1995. W. Glannon, “Responsibility and the Principle of Possible Action,” Journal of
Philosophy 92: 261-274
1994. W. Glannon, “Omnipotence and the Transfer of Power,” International Journal
for Philosophy of Religion 36: 81-103.
1994. W. Glannon, “Temporal Asymmetry, Life, and Death,” American Philosophical
Quarterly 31: 235-244
1994. W. Glannon, “On the Revised Principle of Alternate Possibilities,” Southern
Journal of Philosophy 32: 49-60.
1993. W. Glannon, “Epicureanism and Death,” The Monist 76: 222-234
1988. W. Glannon, “Virtue and Luck in Aristotle’s Ethics,” Proceedings of the Sixteenth
Philosophy Colloquium, University of Dayton, University of Dayton Review 19:
23-33. Reprinted as “Accion y fortuna en la etica de Aristoteles,” Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (Argentina), CIEF, Volume 3 (1989): 1293-1317.
1988. W. Glannon, “The Author’s Paradox,” British Journal of Aesthetics 28: 239-247.
1988. W. Glannon, “Unamuno y la metafisica de la ficcion, “ in A. Loureiro, ed.,
Estelas, laberintos, nuevas sendas (Barcelona: Anthropos), 95-108.
1987. W. Glannon, “Unamuno’s San Manuel Bueno, martir: Ethics through Fiction,”
Modern Language Notes 102: 316-333. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, Volume 69 (New York: Gale/Thomson Publishing, 2003), and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Volume 148 (New York: Thomson/Gale Publishing, 2004)
1987. W. Glannon, “Wittgenstein’s Epistemological Naturalism,” in G. Schurz and P.
Weingartner, eds., Proceedings of the 11th International Wittgenstein Symposium, (Vienna: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky), 140-143
1987. W. Glannon, “Why There is no Fact of the Matter about Meaning in Fiction,” in
D. Marshall, ed., Literature as Philosophy/Philosophy as Literature (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press), 94-105.
1986. W. Glannon, “Wittgenstein’s Place in the Skeptical Tradition,” in W. Leinfellner
and P. Weingartner, eds., Proceedings of the 10th International Wittgenstein Symposium (Vienna: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky), 550-553.
1986. W. Glannon, “What Literary Theory Misses in Wittgenstein,” Philosophy and
Literature 10: 263-272
1985. W. Glannon, “Charity and Distributive Justice: Misericordia Reexamined,”
Modern Language Notes 100: 247-264.
1985. W. Glannon, “The Psychology of Knowledge in El licenciado vidriera,” Revista
Hispanica Moderna 20 (1): 86-96.
Publications: Reviews
2020. Francoise Baylis, Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome
Editing, Bioethics 34:
2016. Joseph Fins, Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics, and the Struggle for
Consciousness, American Journal of Bioethics 16 (6) 6-7.
2014. James Stacey Taylor, Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics, Bioethics
28: 155-156.
2012. T.M Wilkinson, Ethics and the Acquisition of Organs, Journal of Value Inquiry
46: 379-382.
2012. Sean Spence, The Actor’s Brain: Exploring the Cognitive Neuroscience of Free
Will, AJOB-Neuroscience 3 (4): 93-95.
2011. Martha Farah (ed.), Neuroethics: An Introduction with Readings,
Neuroethics 4 (3): 263-265.
2011. Steven Luper, The Philosophy of Death, Analysis 71 (3): 601-603.
2010. Ben Bradley, Well-Being and Death, Journal of Value Inquiry 44: 107-
111.
2008. R. Merkel et al., Intervening in the Brain: Changing Psyche and Society
Hastings Center Report 38 (4): 46-47.
2008. John Harris, Enhancing Evolution: The Case for Making Better People,
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 17: 347-349
2007. Keith Wailoo et al., A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled
Transplant, and the Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 50: 637-639
2003. Jack Li, Can Death Be a Harm to the Person Who Dies? Journal of
Medical Ethics 29: e3.
1999. Lawrie Reznek, Evil or Ill? Justifying the Insanity Defense, Ethics 105:
704.
1997. Stephen Post, The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease, Ethics 103:
547.
1983. John Butt, San Manuel Bueno, martir, Modern Language Notes 98: 317-
320.
1979. Victoria Camps, Pragmatica del lenguaje y filosofia analitica, Modern
Language Notes 94: 409-412.
Publications: Magazine, Newsletter and Blog Essays
2021. “A World without Us,” Journal of Medical Ethics Blog. December 6.
2016. “Communication in Severe Brain Injury,” Brainstorm International Neuroethics
Forum, 9 (2): 7-8.
2016. Review of Paco Roca, “Wrinkles: Fear of Alzheimer’s and Aging (with Timothy
Krahn, first author), Impact Ethics, Dalhousie University, January.
2016. “Erasing Memories,” Neuroethics Blog, Emory University and American Journal
of Bioethics Neuroscience, March.
2015. “Dead Enough,” Aeon Magazine, October 1, 2,200 words.
2014. “The Free Will Fix,” Aeon Magazine, July 27, 2,000 words.
2014. “Neural Prosthetics, Behavior Control and Criminal Responsibility,” Neuroethics
Blog, Emory University and American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience, November.
2013. “Organ Donation, Death and Harm, Impact Ethics, Dalhousie University, June
Presentations
“Comments on “Mapping the Emerging Legal Landscape for Neuroprostheses,” by T.
Akmazoglu and J. Chandler. Conference on Neurotechnology, Criminal Law and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, University of Sydney Law School, December 13, 2021
“The Value and Disvalue of Consciousness,” Bioethics Lecture Series, University of
Calgary, December 2, 2019.
“Philosophical Implications of Memory,” Philosophy Colloquium, University of
Calgary, November 20, 2019.
“Brain Implants to Erase Memories,” Frontiers Spotlight Conference: “Augmenting Brain
Function, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 20, 2018
“Cognitive Enhancement,” Russell and Robert Moody Lecture Series, “Birth, Life and
Death of the Brain,” Galveston, TX, February 7, 2018 (Some of the ideas in this
presentation have been discussed by W. Winslade and H. Taylor in How to Make the Most of Your Mind: Using Your Brain, Body and Environment to Improve the Quality of Your Life, New York: Thompson and Treanor, 2020).
“Insight and Psychiatric Disorders,” Institute for Medical Humanities, Galveston , TX,
February 6, 2018
“The Evolution of Neuroethics,” Clinical Neurosciences Grand Rounds, Dr. Keith
Brownell Lecture in Neurology, University of Calgary, May 26, 2017
“Are We Underestimating the Risk in Living Kidney Donation?” 28th Annual Fellows
Conference, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago, November 11, 2016
“Moral Enhancement as a Collective Action Problem,” University of Exeter, UK, July 6,
2016
“Ethical Issues in Neuroenhancement,” Annual Seminar Series (Neuroethics), MacLean
Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago, November 4, 2015
“Manipulating Memory: Philosophical and Legal Issues,” Department of Philosophy,
Dalhousie University, September 4, 2015.
“Moral Enhancement,” Annual Conference of the Italian Neuroethics Society, Padua,
Italy, May 16, 2015.
“Cognitive Enhancement,” Montreal Neuroethics Conference for Young Researchers,
Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal, April 17, 2015
“Ethical Issues in Neural Transplantation,” Transplant Ethics Forum, Vancouver General
Hospital, November 21, 2014.
“Probing and Modulating the Brain: Philosophical Reflections on Functional
Neurosurgery,” University of Zurich Hospital, November 12, 2014
“The Legal Implications of Neural Prosthetics,” Atlanta Neurolaw Conference,
September 13, 2014.
“Implications of Neuroscience for Moral and Legal Responsibility,” Neuroethics
Network Meeting, Paris, June 19, 2014.
“Neuroskepticism,” 69th Annual Meeting of the Ogden Surgical-Medical Society, Ogden,
Utah, May 16, 2014.
“The Moral Insignificance of Death in Organ Donation,” University of Illinois, Chicago,
College of Medicine Medical Ethics Lecture Series, March 5, 2014
“What Strokes Can Tell Us about Consciousness” Poster Presentation, second author
with Michel Shamy, Canadian Stroke Conference, Montreal, October 17, 2013
“Neuromodulation for Disorders of the Will,” Department of Philosophy, University of
Turku, Finland, April 29, 2013.
“Manipulating Memory,” Workshop on the Future of Neuroenhancement: Morality,
Memory & Love, Institut fur Ethik, Geschichte und Theorie der Medizin, Muenster, Germany, April 21, 2013.
“Enhancing the Will,” MinD-Symposium on Cognitive Enhancement and Brain Training,
Muenster, Germany, April 19, 2013.
“The Neuroscience and Ethics of Manipulating Memory,” Brocher Foundation,
Hermance, Switzerland, April 9, 2013.
“Prostheses for the Will: Implications of Neuromodulation for Autonomy and Identity,”
Division of Medical Ethics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City March 21, 2013.
“Author Meets Critics: Brain, Body and Mind: Neuroethics with a Human Face.” with
Craig Klugman and William Winslade, Annual Meeting of the Association for
Professional and Practical Ethics, San Antonio, TX, March 2, 2013.
“The Ethical Significance of Consciousness,” Apeiron Society for the Practice of
Philosophy, Calgary, October 2, 2012.
“Neuromodulation, Agency, and Autonomy,” Symposium “Changing the Brain,
Changing Society: Clinical and Ethical Implications of Neuromodulation Techniques in Neurology and Psychiatry,” University of Geneva Neuroscience Center and Brocher Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland, June 14, 2012
“How Conscious Must the Will Be to Be Free?” Institute for Biomedical Ethics,
University of Geneva, June 12, 2012.
“Consciousness and Neuroethics: Brain, Body, Mind and Environment Interactions,”
Seminar Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University, Rome, May 2-4, 2012.
“Neuroscience and Psychopathy,” Montreal Neuroethics Network, Institut de recherches
cliniques de Montreal, March 29, 2012.
“Neuroscience and Criminal Responsibility,” Health
Law Ethics Seminar, Health Law and Policy Institute, University of Houston Law School, February 9, 2012.
“Neuroscience, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility,” Plan II Honors Program Public
Lecture, University of Texas, Austin, TX, February 8, 2012.
“Consciousness, Mind, and Personhood,” Bioethics Seminar, University of Texas,
Austin, February 8, 2012.
“Consciousness and the ‘Location’ of the Mind,” Institute for Medical Humanities,
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, February 7, 2012.
“Neuroscience and Criminal Responsibility,” John P. McGovern Memorial Award
Lecture in the Medical Humanities, Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, February 6, 2012.
“The Ethical Significance of Consciousness,” Symposium on Chronic Disorders of
Consciousness,” Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Germany October 26, 2011.
“Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Enhancing the Will,” Neuroethics Conference:
Neuroenhancement, Johannes Gutenberg Universitat, Mainz, Germany, July 7, 2011.
“Dialogue in Neuroscience: Challenges and Strategies,” European Union Brains in
Dialogue (BID) Final Conference, Brussels, July 6, 2011.
“Promoting Communication and Education in Neuroscience,” Brains in in Dialogue
(BID) Workshop, Brussels, July 5, 2011.
“Ethical Issues in Organ, Tissue and Cell Transplantation,” Symposium Organized by the
World Health Organization and Brocher Foundation, Hermance, Switzerland, May 15, 2011.
“The Moral Insignificance of Death in Organ Donation,” Fondation Brocher,
Hermance, Switzerland, May 5, 2011.
“Persons, Brains, and Mental Illness,” W.F. Mitchell Bioethics Conference, Saskatoon
City Hospital, November 19, 2010.
“Consent to Psychiatric Neurosurgery,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
12th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, October 21, 2010.
“Neurobiology, Decision-Making, and Criminal Responsibility,” CIHR-sponsored
workshop on the Neurobiology and Ethics of Decision-Making, Jackson’s Point, Ontario, September 25, 2010.
“Functional Neurosurgery and the Metaphysics of Mind,” CIHR-sponsored workshop on
Ethical and Philosophical Issues in Functional Neurosurgery, Jackson’s Point,
Ontario, September 23, 2010.
“The Blessing and Burden of Biological Psychiatry,” International Network for
Philosophy and Psychiatry Annual Conference, Manchester, UK, June 29, 2010.
“Consent to Deep-Brain Stimulation for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders,”
Interdisciplinary Ethics Rounds, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, April 14, 2010.
“The Impact of Substance Abuse on the Transplant Candidacy Selection Process,”
Transplant Ethics Forum, Vancouver General Hospital, December 8, 2009.
“Measuring Success in Deep-Brain Stimulation,” Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Neurological Surgeons, Las Vegas, December 5, 2009.
“Neuroscience, Free Will, and Responsibility,” Plenary Lecture for the International
Conference: Brain Matters: New Directions in Neuroethics, Halifax, September
25, 2009.
“Educating Future Neuroscience Clinicians in Neuroethics: A Report of One Program’s
Work-in-Progress (with Philippe Couillard and Keith Brownell), Brain Matters Conference, Halifax, September 25, 2009.
“Neuroethics,” Program of European Neuroscience Schools (PENS), Summer School
on Metabolic Aspects of Chronic Brain Diseases, Reisensburg, Germany, July 9, 2009.
“What Neuroscience Can (and Cannot) Tell Us about Criminal Responsibility,” Law and
Neuroscience Colloquium, University College London, July 6, 2009.
“The Neuroethics of Memory,” Mellon Lecture in Philosophy and Psychology, Bates
College, Lewiston, Maine, USA, March 27, 2009.
“Free Will and Moral Responsibility in the Light of Neuroscience,” Mellon Lecture in
Philosophy and Psychology, Bates College, March 26, 2009.
“Conscription of Cadaveric Organs for Transplantation without Consent,” Transplant
Ethics Forum, Vancouver General Hospital, December 3, 2008.
“Neuroscience and Free Will,” Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Arizona
State University, Tempe, AZ, October 6, 2008.
“Ethical Issues in Deep-Brain Stimulation,” CIHR workshop on Deep-Brain Stimulation,
Halifax, September 20, 2008.
“Stimulating Brains, Altering Minds,” International Bioethics Retreat, Paris, France, June
24, 2008
“Our Brains Are Not Us,” Disorders of Body and Mind Research Group, Heidelberg,
Germany, June 2, 2008.
“Neuroethics: The Promise and Pitfalls of Intervening in the Brain,” Crosley Memorial
Lecture, University of New England, Portland, ME, March 25, 2008.
“Underestimating the Risk in Living Kidney Donation,” Interdisciplinary Ethics Rounds,
University of Calgary, March 9, 2008.
“Moral Responsibility and the Psychopath,” Eastern Division Meeting of the American
Philosophical Association, Baltimore, MD, December 28, 2007.
“Organ Donation,” Transplant Ethics Forum, Vancouver General Hospital, December 8,
2007.
“Keeping One’s Cool: Some Ethical Questions about Psychopharmacological
Enhancement” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., October 18, 2007.
“Reading Brains and Minds: Ethical Issues in Neuroimaging,” CIHR Workshop on
Vision Health and Research, York University, Toronto, August 2, 2007.
“The Neuroethics of Keeping One’s Cool,” Canadian Bioethics Society Annual Meeting,
Toronto, June 1, 2007.
“Brain Injury, Creativity, and Identity,” CIHR Workshop on Identity and Altered
Cognition, Toronto, May 30, 2007.
“Psychopharmacological Enhancement,” Pacific Division Meeting of the American
Philosophical Association, San Francisco, April 5, 2007.
“Neuroethics in the Clinic,” Foothills Hospital Ethics Committee, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Calgary, March 9, 2007.
“Organ Donation after Cardiocirculatory Death: Ethical Issues,” Community Health
Sciences Seminar, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, March 2, 2007.
“Ethical Issues Surrounding Brain Function: Reflections on the Terri Schiavo Case,”
Clinical Neurosciences Grand Rounds, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, October 6, 2006.
“Exploring the Neurophilosophical Landscape,” CIHR New Emerging Team
Meeting, Halifax, September 15, 2006.
“Ethical Issues in Donation after Cardiocirculatory Death,” Medical Grand Rounds,
University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, June 7, 2006.
“Risking One’s Life to Benefit Another? Questions about Living Organ Donation,”
Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, February 27, 2006.
“Donation after Cardiocirculatory Death: Ethical Issues,” British Columbia Transplant
Ethics Forum, Vancouver General Hospital, December 8, 2005.
“Setting Priorities in Allocating Organs for Transplantation,” British Columbia
Transplant Ethics Forum, Vancouver General Hospital, December 10, 2004
“The Therapeutic Misconception in Phase I Oncology Trials,” Canadian Bioethics
Society Conference, Calgary, October 16, 2004
“Medical Ethics from a Clinical Ethicist’s Perspective,” “Dermanities” Conference,
University of British Columbia, June 22, 2004
“Neuroethics,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities/Canadian Bioethics
Society Conference, Montreal, QC, October 18, 2003.
“Ethical Issues in Neonatology,” Conference on Neonatology, Children’s and Women’s
Health Centre of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. May 5, 2003.
“Ethical Issues in Pediatric Research,” Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British
Columbia, January 29, 2003.
“Determining Lives on the Basis of Genetics,” Department of Philosophy, University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, January 29, 2002.
“Life Extension if Light of Evolution,” Canadian Bioethics Society Conference, Quebec
City, October 21, 2000
“Genetic Interventions for Medical Reasons,” Society for Applied Philosophy
Conference, Manchester UK, May 20, 2000.
“The Art and Science of the Clinical Ethics Consult: Cases,” Jewish General Hospital,
Montreal, May 5, 2000
“Extending the Human Lifespan,” Bioethics Conference, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, April 15, 2000
“Identity, Prudential Concern and Extended Lives,” Department of Philosophy, McGill
University, March 31, 2000
“Allocating Health Resource in the United States and Canada,” Conference on Health
Care Systems, University of California, Davis, Medical School, Sacramento, January 15, 2000
‘The Ethics of Human Cloning,” Canadian Bioethics Society Annual Meeting,
Edmonton, AB, October 31, 1999.
“Responsibility and Organ Transplantation,” Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University,
April 15, 1999.
“Ethical Consequences of Genetic Testing,” Department of Philosophy, University of
Victoria, April 21, 1998
“Genes, Embryos and Future People,” Department of Philosophy, University of Western
Ontario, February 28, 1998.
“Genes and Future Generations,” Department of Philosophy, University of Buffalo,
December 5, 1997
“Rights, Duties and Outcomes,” Conference on “Utilitarianism Reconsidered,” New
Orleans, LA, March 27, 1007.
“Equality, Priority and Numbers,” Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan
University, March 11, 1997
“Responsibility and the Principle of Possible Action,” Department of Philosophy,
University of Alberta, March 4, 1997
“Persons, Lives and Posthumous Harms,” Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M
University, February 17, 1997
“Lifespan and Quality of Life,” Department of Philosophy Conference on Quality of Life,
University of Northern British Columbia, August 18, 1996
“Responsibility and Claims on Health Resources,” Centre for Applied Ethics, University
of British Columbia, November 12, 1995
“Experience and Harm,” Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, September
29, 1995
“Free Will and the Closed Future,” Pacific Division Meeting of the American
Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 31, 1995
“Equality, Priority and Numbers,” 19th Conference on Value Inquiry, Drew University,
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