Society for Applied Philosophy
ANNUAL CONFERENCE

was held on 19th - 21st May 2000
Chancellors Conference Centre, University of Manchester

THEME: ARE GENES US?

Event Programme

Friday

7.00 p.m.
Brian Appleyard (author of Brave New World: Staying Human in the Genetic Future )
Genetics and the End of Nature

Saturday

8.00 a.m. Breakfast

9.00 a.m.
Ruth Chadwick (Central Lancashire)
Beyond the Genome: the "Value Impact" of the Human Genome Project

9.45 a.m.
Parallel Session 1:
Gregoire Kantardjian (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Genetics and the Construction of Personal Identity

Parallel Session 2:
Robyn Bluhm (McMaster University, Ontario)
The Ideology of the Central Dogma and the Notion of 'Genetic Basis'

10.30 a.m. Coffee break

11.00 a.m.
Parallel Session 1:
David McCarthy (Melbourne)
Information. Autonomy and Genetics

Henriikka Clarkeburn (Glasgow)
The Benefits and Harms of Prenatal Testing

Parallel Session 2:
Tuija Takala (Turku)
Born Harmed? New Challenges to the Child's Right to an Open Future in the Light of Prenatal Genetics

Ainsley Newson (Melbourne)
Is there a Cost Associated with the Choices of Genetic Enhancement?

12.30 p.m. Lunch

3.00 p.m.
Plenary Session
Julian Savulescu (Melbourne)
Is Genetic Selection Superior to Genetic Enhancement?

Walter Glannon (McGill, Montreal)
Genetic Intervention and Personal Identity

4.45 p.m.
Society for Applied Philosophy A.G.M.

6.00 p.m. Dinner

7.30 p.m.
Matti Häyry (Helsinki)
Plenary Session Deeply Felt Disgust - A Devlinian Objection to Cloning

Duncan Richter (Virginia Military Institute)
The Fear of Playing God

9.00 p.m. Drinks

Sunday

8.00 a.m. Breakfast

9.00 a.m.
Anna Kessling (Community Genetics, Imperial College London)
Testing a Multi-Ethnic Community for Complex Disease Risk

9.45 a.m.
Parallel Session 1:
Tom Buller (Alaska)
Identity, Reduction and Genes

Parallel Session 2:
Andy Miah (De Montfort)
The Patenting of Human DNA

10.30 a.m. Cofee break

11.00 a.m.
Parallel Session 1:
Shahrar Ali (University College London)
Assessing the Risk of Deliberate Releases

Jonathan Hughes (University of Manchester)
GM Crops, the Precautionary Principle and the Case for a Moratorium

Parallel Session 2:
Bernd Villhauer (Karlsruhe)
Genetics, Education and Humanism

Maurice Schouten (Amsterdam)
Memory Genes Knocked Out

12.30 p.m. Close

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