Dr Neil Levy
Ethical Issues in Biotechnology
nllevy@unimelb.edu.au
Telephone +61 (03) 8344-3855
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BA(Hons), PhD, PhD
Biography
Neil Levy’s work focuses on the links between ethical theory and practice and other disciplines, within and beyond philosophy. Together with Jeanette Kennett he holds an Australian Research Council Grant to develop a framework for the ethical regulation of technologies associated with the sciences of the mind and to seek to understand the implications of these sciences for our conception of human agency.
Fields of special interest
- Free will and moral responsibility
- Neuroethics
- Philosophical psychology
- Moral cognition
- Practical epistemology
Publications
Books
Levy, N. 2007. Neuroethics: Philosophical Challenges for the 21st Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Levy, N. 2004. What Makes us Moral? Crossing the Boundaries of Biology, Oxford: Oneworld.
Levy, N. 2002. Moral Relativism, Oxford: Oneworld.
Levy, N. 2002. Sartre, Oxford: Oneworld.
Levy, N. 2002. Being Up-To-Date: Foucault, Sartre and Postmodernity, New York: Peter Lang.