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Walter Glannon
(April 2010)
Department of Philosophy Department of Community Health Sciences
University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine
2500 University Dr. NWUniversity of Calgary
Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada 3330 Hospital Drive
Email: Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1
Phone: 403-220-3171
Professional Status
Canada Research Chair in Medical Bioethics and Ethical Theory, University of Calgary
(January 2006- )
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Calgary (January 2006- )
Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary (January
2006- )
Education
PhD in Philosophy, YaleUniversity, November 1995. Dissertation: Responsible Persons
MA in Philosophy, YaleUniversity, April 1993
PhD in Spanish Literature, The JohnsHopkinsUniversity, May 1982. Dissertation: The
Development of Unamuno’s Ethics
MA in Spanish Literature, The JohnsHopkinsUniversity, May 1979.
BA (magna cum laude) in Philosophy and Spanish Literature, DukeUniversity, May
1977
Area of Specialization
Biomedical Ethics; Ethical Theory
Employment Experience
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, McGillUniversity,
January 2000-August 2001
Clinical Ethicist, Jewish GeneralHospital, 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
Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, July
1995-June 1997
Assistant and Associate Professor of Spanish Language and Literature, SmithCollege,
September 1983-June 1993 (tenured 1989)
Other Professional Experience
Co-Investigator, New Emerging TeamResearch Group, “States of Mind: Emerging
Issues in Neuroethics” funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health
Research (CIHR), 2006-2011.
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.
Editorial Board, Neuroethics
International Editorial Advisory Board, Policy Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology
Scientific Review Committee, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, 2007
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
Morality Review Committee, British Columbia Children’s and Women’s Hospital,
January 2003-December 2005
Research Ethics Committee, Jewish GeneralHospital, Montreal, January 2000-May 2001
Clinical Ethics Committee, Jewish GeneralHospital, January 2000-May 2001 (Chair
September 2000-May 2001)
Clinical Ethics Fellow, MacLeanCenter for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of
ChicagoSchool of Medicine, September 1998-April 1999
Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, SmithCollege, April 1991-March 1993
Peer reviewer for Canada Research Chairs
Guest Editor for Journal of Ethics in Mental Health, Volume 2 (December 2007),
Thematic issue on “Neurodiversity”
Referee for: American Journal of Transplantation,Archives of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Pharmacogenomics, American Philosophical Quarterly, Bioethics, British Medical Bulletin, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Critical Care Medicine, Developing World Bioethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, McGraw-Hill Publishers, Medicine, Health Care & Philosophy, MITPress,Neuroethics, Oxford University Press (USA, UK, and Canada), Pediatrics & Child Health, Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, Routledge Press, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics,Wellcome Trust, Westview Press.
Teaching and Supervisory Experience
Acting Director of Undergraduate Medical Ethics Education, University of Calgary
Faculty of Medicine, August-December 2006
Medical Student Teaching (lectures and small-group case-based discussions), University
of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, January 2006-
“Neuroscience 421: History, Philosophy, Society and Ethics,” University of Calgary, fall
2010 (with Keith Sharkey, Andrew Bullock, Frank Stahnisch and Keith Brownell)
Clinical Ethics rounds for Neurology Residents, University of Calgary Faculty of
Medicine, Fall 2007- (bi-monthly)
“Biomedical Ethics,” University of Calgary, Department of Philosophy, winter and fall
2007 terms, fall 2008 term
“Bioethics and the Brain,” Graduate/Undergraduate Seminar, University of Calgary,
Department of Philosophy, winter 2006 term
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 ColumbiaMini-MedSchool, Research Ethics, April 2003
Lectures on Research Ethics for Medical Students, University of British Columbia
Faculty of Medicine, Fall 2002-Spring 2003
Director of Master’s Specialization in Bioethics, Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill
University, September 2000-August 2001
Master’s Thesis Supervisor of 4 Students in Master’s Bioethics Program, McGill
University, 2000-2002:
Maya Goldenberg, Philosophy (“The Discourse of Bioethics”)
Dominique Robert, Nursing (“Healing in Medicine”)
Fabian Ballesteros, MD, Experimental Medicine (“Sanctity of Life”)
Natalie Bandrauk, MD, Experimental Medicine (“Medical Futility”)
PhD Thesis Co-Supervisor (with John Baker) of J. David Guerrero, Department of
Philosophy, Universityof Calgary, 2007-
PhD Thesis Co-Supervisor (with Ian Mitchell) of Kiran Pohar Manhas, Department of
Medical Science, University of Calgary, 2007-
MSc Thesis Co-Supervisor (with Ian Mitchell) of Jodie Oosman, Department of Medical
Science, University of Calgary, 2008-
Supervisor of Research Assistant, Elske Straver, Department of Philosophy, University of
Calgary, March-August 2008, Project: “Psychopathy and Social Cognition”
Seminar on Bioethical Theory, Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGillUniversity, Fall 2000
Seminar in Genetics and Ethics, Biomedical Ethics Unit/Department of
Philosophy, McGillUniversity, Winter 2000
Internal Medicine Resident Ethics Rounds, Jewish GeneralHospital, Montreal, February
2000-May 2001 (monthly)
Ethics Seminar Leader, Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, September
1998-June 1999
Bioethics, University of Calgary, Department of Philosophy, Fall-Winter 1997-98
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, 1983-1993
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
CIHR-funded New Emerging Team Grant, “States of Mind: Emerging Issues in
Neuroethics,” Co-Investigator($1,100,000, 2006-2011)
Canada Research Chair in Medical Bioethics and Ethical Theory, Tier 2, University of
Calgary, January 2006-December 2010 ($500,000 from CIHR)
Senior Fellowship, Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL,
September 1998-June 1999
Clinical Ethics Fellowship, MacLeanCenter for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of
ChicagoSchool of Medicine, September 1998-March 1999
Killam Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British
Columbia, July 1995-June 1997
Publications: Books
Bioethics and the Brain, OxfordUniversity Press, 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, OxfordUniversity Press, 2005 (Fundamentals of Philosophy Series)
The Mental Basis of Responsibility, Ashgate Publishing, 2002
Contemporary Readings in Biomedical Ethics (ed.), Wadsworth Publishing, 2002
Genes and Future People: Philosophical Issues in Human Genetics, Westview Press,
2001
The Ethical Dimensions of Organ Donation and Transplantation (under contract with
Cambridge University Press)
Brain, Body, and Mind: Neuroethics with a Human Face (under contract with Oxford
University Press)
Publications: Articles and Chapters(*peer-reviewed)
2011. W. Glannon, “Neuroethics,” International Encyclopedia of Ethics, H. LaFollette,
ed. (London: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming)
2011. W. Glannon, “Neuroimaging and Neuroethics,” Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics,
2nd edition, R. Chadwick, ed. (London: Elsevier, forthcoming).*
2011. W. Glannon,“Brain Injury and Survival,” in J. Taylor, ed., The Metaphysics
and Ethics of Death (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)*
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, forthcoming).*
2010. W. Glannon, “Brain, Behavior, and Knowledge,” Neuroethics (forthcoming)*
2010. W. Glannon, “Consent to Deep-Brain Stimulation for Neuropsychiatric
Disorders,” Journal of Clinical Ethics (forthcoming)*
2010. W. Glannon, “Afterword” to J. Giordano and B. Gordijn, eds., Neuroethics: The
Silent Revolution in Neuroscience—Scientific, Philosophical, and Ethical Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 366-370.
2010. W. Glannon, ”What Neuroscience Can (and Cannot) Tell Us about Criminal
Responsibility,” in M. Freeman, ed. Legal Issues, volume 13, “Law and Neuroscience” (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).*
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*
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: 289-292*
2009. W. Glannon, “Responsibility and Priority in Liver Transplantation,” Cambridge
Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 18: 23-35*
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 (BerlinLondon: Springer, 188-203*
2008. W. Glannon, ”Deep-Brain Stimulation for Depression,” HEC Forum 20 (4):
325-335*
2008. W. Glannon,”Organ Donation,” RoyalCollege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Canada Bioethics Education Project.*
2007. W. Glannon,”Neurodiversity,” Journal of Ethics in Mental Health 2 (3): e6-12*
2007. W. Glannon, “Constructive Memory and Memory Enhancement,” Bioethics
Forum, May 19.
2007. W. Glannon, “Persons, Metaphysics, and Ethics, American Journal of Bioethics:
Neuroscience 7 (1):68-69
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, 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.
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
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: 18pp.*
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 andL. 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.
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 13: 201-
220.* Reprinted in M.R. Ruse and A. Sheppard, eds., Cloning: Responsible Science or Technomadness? (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Press, 2001).
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: OxfordUniversity 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, Letters, and Commentaries
2010. Review of Ben Bradley, Well-Being and Death, Journal of Value Inquiry
(forthcoming)
2008. Review of R. Merkel et al., Intervening in the Brain: Changing Psyche and Society
HastingsCenter Report 38 (4): 46-47.
2008. Review of John Harris, Enhancing Evolution: The Case for Making Better People,
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 17: 347-349
2007. Editorial for thematic issue on “Neurodiversity,” Journal of Ethics in Mental
Health, Volume 2 (November):e5.
2007. Review of 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
2007. Letter to the Editor in response to D. Brudney, “Just Deserts?”HastingsCenter
Report 32 (1): 3.
2006. Commentary on the Case of a Patient with Psychosis and Cirrhosis, Journal of
Ethics in Mental Health 1 (1): e8.
2003. Review of Jack Li, Can Death Be a Harm to the Person Who Dies?, Journal of
Medical Ethics 29: e3.
- “Comments on Free Will,” in Neuroethics: Mapping the Field, S. Marcus, ed.
Washington, D.C.: Dana Press, 26-27.
2002. “Neuroimaging and Determining Responsibility,” Cerebrum 4: 5-6.
1999. Review of Lawrie Reznek, Evil or Ill? Justifying the Insanity Defense, Ethics 105:
704.
1997. Review of Stephen Post, The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease, Ethics 103:
547.
1983. Review of John Butt, San Manuel Bueno, martir, Modern Language Notes 98: 317-
320.
1979. Review of Victoria Camps, Pragmatica del lenguaje y filosofia analitica, Modern
Language Notes 94: 409-412.
Lectures (last five years)
“The Impact of Substance Abuse on the Transplant Candidacy Selection Process,”
Transplant Ethics Forum, VancouverGeneralHospital, 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 Brain Diseases, Gunzburg, Germany, July 9, 2009.
“What Neuroscience Can (and Cannot) Tell Us about Criminal Responsibility,” Law and
Neuroscience Colloquium, UniversityCollegeLondon, 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, BatesCollege, March 26, 2009.
“Conscription of Cadaveric Organs for Transplantation without Consent,” Transplant
Ethics Forum, VancouverGeneralHospital, December 3, 2008..
“Neuroscience and Free Will,” Templeton Research Lecture, Center for the Study of
Religion and Conflict, ArizonaStateUniversity, Tempe, AZ, October 6, 2008.