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Julian Savulescu

University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics

Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics & Head of the Melbourne-Oxford Stem Cell Collaboration

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Scholarly Papers (18)

1.

Philosophy Meets Internet Engineering: Ethics in Networked Systems Research. (GTC Workshop Outcomes Paper)

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 30 Sep 2015
University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford - Faculty of Philosophy, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and Google - Open Source Research
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Practical ethics, computer ethics, technology law, Internet engineering

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COVID-19 Vaccine Development: Time to Consider SARS-CoV-2 Challenge Studies?

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 25 Jun 2020
National University of Singapore (NUS), National University of Singapore (NUS) - Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and National University of Singapore
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Covid-19; SARS-CoV-2; human challenge study; research ethics; coronavirus

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The Ethics of Overruling Parental Refusal of Neonatal Hepatitis B Vaccination for Babies Born to Mothers with Hepatitis B Virus Infection

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Nov 2020
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - Department of Clinical Research, University of Oxford - Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford - Oxford Vaccine Group, Children's Liver Disease Foundation, Children's Liver Disease Foundation, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - Department of Clinical Research, Imperial College London - Section of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Government of the United Kingdom - Public Health England, Government of the United Kingdom - Public Health England, Public Health England - Immunisation, Hepatitis, and Blood Safety Department, University of Oxford - Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and University of Oxford - Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
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Medical Ethics, Hepatitis B Virus, Vaccine Hesitancy, Vaccine Refusal, Mother-to-Child Transmission, Child Protection, Safeguarding Children

4.

Covert exploitation of relational norms in human-human and human-AI relationships: a challenge to socioaffective alignment

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 10 Jun 2025 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2026
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Centre for Biomedical Ethics, University of Copenhagen - Centre for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law (CeBIL), University of Oxford, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Centre for Biomedical Ethics, University of California, Berkeley Law School, University of Oxford, University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford and Yale University
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human-AI interactions, Artificial Intelligence, relational norms, cooperation

5.

Welfare Versus Autonomy in Human Subjects Research

Florida State University Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2014
Mark S. Stein and Julian Savulescu
affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
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human subjects research, welfare, autonomy, informed consent, bioethics

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Transatlantic Lessons in Regulation of Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy

Science, Vol. 348, Issue 6231, p.178, April 2015
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 25 Apr 2015
I. Glenn Cohen, Julian Savulescu and Eli Y Adashi
Harvard Law School, University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and Brown University Medical School
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Mutant mitochondrial DNA, mtDNA, mitochondrial replacement therapy, MRT, Three Parent IVF, reproductive technologies, embryos, bioethics, UK, USA, EU law

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Neuroimaging and the Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment from Patients in Vegetative State

Medical Law Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2009, U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 433
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 23 Nov 2009
Loane Skene, Dominic Wilkinson, Guy Kahane and Julian Savulescu
University of Melbourne - Law School, University of Oxford - Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Oxford – Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
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vegetative state, life-sustaining treatment, neuroimaging

8.

Personalizing Ai Art Boosts Credit, Not Beauty

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 15 Apr 2025
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Cambridge, University of Copenhagen - Centre for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law (CeBIL), Zhejiang University, Zhejiang University, Loyola University of Chicago, KU Leuven, University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Department of Philosophy I, University of Granada and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Generative AI, Algorithmic Aversion, personalization, Visual Art, Authorship, Aesthetic Value

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Authorship Without Writing: Large Language Models and the "Senior Author" Analogy

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 16 Sep 2025
National University Singapore, University of Oxford, University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and University of Oxford
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Research ethics, professional ethics, philosophy, biomedical ethics, ethics, bioethics, LLMs, large language models, generative AI, artificial intelligence

10.

Ethical frameworks should be applied to computational modelling of infectious disease interventions

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 12 Feb 2024 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2024
University of Melbourne - School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Melbourne, University of Canterbury, University of Melbourne, La Trobe University, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) - Centre for Infectious Disease Control and University of Melbourne - School of Computing and Information Systems
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infectious diseases, public health, modelling, ethics, interventions, equity, pandemics

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Australian Public Perspectives on Genomic Data Storage and Sharing: Benefits, Concerns and Access Preferences

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 28 Sep 2022
University of Melbourne - Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne, University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Melbourne - Murdoch Children's Research Institute and University of Melbourne - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Genome, Genomic medicine, Data management, Qualitative research, Bioethics

12.

COVID-19 Differentiated Measures for Unvaccinated Individuals: The Need for Clear Goals and Strong Justifications

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 01 Apr 2022
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, National University of Singapore (NUS), affiliation not provided to SSRN and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
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COVID-19, pandemic, public health restrictions, ethics, vaccination

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Paediatric Preference Prediction: The Future of Decision-Making for Children?

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 10 Jul 2026
Dominic Wilkinson, Julian Savulescu and Brian D. Earp
University of Oxford - Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and University of Oxford
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Preference Prediction, Advance Directives, Medical Decision-Making, Paediatrics

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Against Mandatory Prompt Disclosure in AI-Assisted Scholarship

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 10 Jul 2026
University of Oxford, Queen’s University, University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and University of Oxford
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Large Language Models, AI-Assisted Writing, Academic Publishing, Research Integrity, Authorship, Transparency, Prompt Disclosure

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Voluntary Palliated Starvation: A Lawful and Ethical Way to Die?

Journal of Law and Medicine, 22, pp. 376-386, 2014
Posted: 10 Jul 2016
Ben White, Lindy Willmott and Julian Savulescu
Queensland University of Technology - Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology - Faculty of Law and University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics

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Palliative care, Refusal of food and water, Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, Medical law, Health law

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The Evaluability Bias in Charitable Giving: Saving Administration Costs or Saving Lives?

Inequality, Trust and Ethics Conference: London 2015
Posted: 18 May 2015
University of Oxford, University of Oxford, University of Oxford, University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and University of Oxford – Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics

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Brain Damage and the Moral Significance of Consciousness

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Vol. 34, Issue 1, pp. 6-26, 2009
Posted: 11 Aug 2009
Guy Kahane and Julian Savulescu
affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics

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brain-imaging, consciousness, minimally conscious state, termination of treatment, vegetative state

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Determining the Validity of Advance Directives

Posted: 27 Jun 2000
Paul Biegler, Cameron Stewart, Julian Savulescu and Loane Skene
Monash Medical Centre, The University of Sydney Law School, University of Oxford - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and University of Melbourne - Law School

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