Books

Fertility and the Family, 1989. A report to the European Commission by a working party I chaired on assisted reproduction. It discussed donor...

This book argues that determinism may well be true, and tries to work out an account of freedom and responsibility compatible with determinism and...

It is a bit staggering how easily most of us accept the cruelty and killings that fill so much of the news bulletins. Humanity started out with the...

This book relates work in neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry to questions about what a person is and the nature of a person’s unity across...

This book has three central thrusts. The first is an attempt to provide a new model for thinking about the moral wrongness of killing. It sets out to...

This book, based on the Uehiro Lectures I gave at Oxford, returns more than twenty years later, to the genetic choices discussed in What Sort of...

This was the first philosophical book on the ethics of genetic choices, and (in its second half) the first book on what is now called “neuroethics”:...