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Walter Glannon
(February 2012)
Department of Philosophy
University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. NW
Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada
Email:
Phone: 403-220-3171
Professional Status
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Calgary (2006- )
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
Biomedical Ethics; Moral Philosophy; Ethical Issues in Neuroscience; Ethical Issues in
Organ Transplantation
Employment Experience
Canada Research Chair in Medical Bioethics and Ethical Theory, University of Calgary,
January 2006-December 2010
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
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
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.
Abstract Review Committee for “Brain Matters II (Montreal, 2011)
Conference Planning Committee, “Brain Matters: New Directions in Neuroethics,”
Halifax, September 2009.
Abstract Review Committee for “Brain Matters,” 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
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)
Clinical Ethics Fellow, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of
Chicago School of Medicine, September 1998-April 1999
Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Smith College, 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 Bioethics—Neuroscience, American Journal of Bioethics—Primary Research, 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, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, John Templeton Foundation, Journal of Medical Ethics, Leverhulme Trust, McGraw-Hill Publishers, Medicine, Health Care & Philosophy, MIT Press, The Monist, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Neuroethics, Neurosurgery, Oxford University Press (USA, UK, and Canada, academic and trade), 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: History, Philosophy, Society and Ethics,” University of Calgary, BSc
program in Neuroscience, fall 2010 and 2011 (with Keith Sharkey, Andrew Bullock, Frank Stahnisch and Keith Brownell)
Clinical Ethics Rounds for Neurology Residents, University of Calgary Faculty of
Medicine, Fall 2007-Winter 2010 (bi-monthly)
“Death: Metaphysical and Ethical Issues,” University of Calgary, Department of
Philosophy, fall 2011 term
“Morality, Virtue, and Society,” University of Calgary, Department of Philosophy,
Winter 2011 term
“Bioethics,” University of Calgary, Department of Philosophy, winter and fall
2007 terms, fall 2008, 2010, and 2011 terms.
“Neuroethics,” Graduate/Undergraduate Seminar, University of Calgary,
Department of Philosophy, winter 2006 and 2011 terms
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
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, University of Calgary, 2007-11 (awarded August 25, 2011)
PhD Thesis Co-Supervisor (with Ian Mitchell) of Kiran Pohar Manhas, Department of
Medical Science, University of Calgary, 2007-11 (awarded June 23, 2011)
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, McGill University, Fall 2000
Seminar in Genetics and Ethics, Biomedical Ethics Unit/Department of
Philosophy, McGill University, Winter 2000
Internal Medicine Resident Ethics Rounds, Jewish General Hospital, 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
John Templeton Foundation Grant, “Diminishing and Enhancing Free Will,” 2011-2014.
Visiting Scholar, Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical
Branch, Galveston, TX, February 2012.
Research Fellow, Brocher Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland, May 1-31, 2011.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), 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, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of
Chicago School of Medicine, September 1998-March 1999
Killam Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British
Columbia, July 1995-June 1997
Publications: Books
Brain, Body, and Mind: Neuroethics with a Human Face, Oxford University Press, 2011.
Bioethics and the Brain, Oxford University 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, Oxford University 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)
Publications: Articles and Book Chapters
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 (forthcoming)
2013. W. Glannon. “The Moral Insignificance of Death in Organ Donation,” Cambridge
Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (forthcoming)
2012. W. Glannon. “Neuropsychological Aspects of Enhancing the Will,” The Monist
(forthcoming)
2012. W. Glannon. “Obsessions, Compulsions, and Free Will,” Philosophy, Psychiatry
& Psychology (forthcoming)
2012. W. Glannon, “Neuroethics/Brain Imaging” Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics,
2nd edition, volume 3, R. Chadwick, ed. (San Diego: Academic Press), 216-224.
2012. W. Glannon, “Brain Injury and Survival,” in J. Taylor, ed. The Metaphysics and
Ethics of Death (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
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, “Neuroscience’s Threat to Free Will,” in H. Samuelson, ed., Building
a Better Human? Refocusing the Debate on Transhumanism. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang,
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. 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
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. 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 http://rcpsc.medical.org/bioethics/cases/index.php
2007. W. Glannon, ”Neurodiversity,” Journal of Ethics in Mental Health 2 (3): e6-12
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: 18 pp. http://www.ccdt.ca.
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