Course Director
Dr Guy Kahane is the Director of Studies at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. He is also a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy in Pembroke College, Oxford and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford. Kahane joined the Uehiro Centre as research fellow in 2005, and held a Wellcome Trust University Award in Biomedical Ethics from 2009 to 2014. Kahane is the author of over 70 papers on practical ethics, the psychology and neuroscience of morality, and on other topics in moral philosophy. He was associate editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, and is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Practical Ethics.
Cesar Palacios Gonzalez
Deputy Course Director
Deputy Course Director: Dr César Palacios-González
Dr César Palacios-González is a Senior Research Fellow in Practical Ethics. His research interests include bioethics, philosophy of medicine, neuroethics, and applied philosophy. He is part of the team running the Masters in Practical Ethics, offered by the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics in the Faculty of Philosophy and the Department for Continuing Education. Dr Palacios-González graduated from The University of Manchester in 2016 with a PhD in Science Ethics, where he was part of the Wellcome Trust funded project 'The Human Body, its Scope, Limits and Future'. His doctoral work explored the ethics of human/non-human chimera research. Prior to coming to Oxford, he was a Research Associate at the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London, working in the Wellcome Trust funded project "The Donation and Transfer of Human Reproductive Materials". There he explored the ethics of Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques and In Vitro Gametogenesis.
Lead Tutor
Lead Tutor: Dr Jonathan Pugh
Dr Jonathan Pugh is a a Senior Research Fellow and Manager of Visitors Programmes for the Oxford Uehiro Centre, University of Oxford. Prior to joining the MSt, he was employed on the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator Project. His research interests lie primarily in issues concerning personal autonomy in practical ethics, and he is the author of Autonomy, Rationality and Contemporary Bioethics. He has also written on the ethics of gene-editing, criminal justice, human enhancement, and neuroethics.