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,

Madison, NJ, April 21, 1994.

“The Moral Mathematics of Selective Termination,” Moral Philosophy in the Public

Domain Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 7, 1990.

“Virtue and Luck in Aristotle’s Ethics,” University of Dayton Philosophy Colloquium,

Dayton, OH, November 13, 1987.

“Wittgenstein’s Epistemological Naturalism,” 11th International Wittgenstein

Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, August 6, 1986.

“Wittgenstein’s Place in the Skeptical Tradition,” 10th International Wittgenstein

Symposium, Kichberg am Wechsel, Austria, August 21, 1985.

Media

Interviews with or citations in Australian Broadcasting Corporation (June 2008), Brains in Dialogue: Neuromedia Corner (Brussels, July 2011); Cosmos Magazine (Australia, June 2018, June 2021), Fast Company (June 2022); Galveston Daily News (February 2018), Irish Times (February 2018) Maclean’s Magazine (Canada, January 2021); The Guardian (July 2019), Miami Herald (July 2018), National Post (Canada, October 2010, October 2012), Nature (July 2011), New York Times (February 2019), Predict (November 2020), Toronto Star (October 2011). (April 2021), Vancouver Sun (March 2023).

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