Center for Advanced Study

View Full Calendar

Editing Nature: Governance Hurdles and Ethical Holes in Genetic Engineering

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Center for Advanced Study
Location
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
Date
Nov 7, 2019   5:00 pm  
Contact
Center for Advanced Study
E-Mail
cas@illinois.edu
Phone
217-333-6729
Views
60

Professor Kofler will outline how scientific and value-based knowledge can inform technology decision-making in ways that are both context-dependent and global in scope. The inadequacy of dominant theories in environmental ethics to support such decision-making will also be presented and an alternative ethos proposed: one that respects the interconnectedness of human and environmental health and invites technology into that relationship to augment the flourishing of both.

Hosted by: Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE)

In conjunction with: Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Department of Atmospheric Science, Department of Entomology, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, School of Earth, Society, and Environment, School of Integrative Biology

______________________________

Natalie Kofler

Scholar affiliate, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

link for robots only