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Dr Guy Kahane

Deputy Director and Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford

Deputy Director and Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, University of Oxford

Research Associate, Institute for Science and Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

Research Associate, Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

Junior Research Fellow, Pembroke College, University of Oxford

(From October 2014: University Lecturer in Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy and Pembroke College, University of Oxford)

Recipient of a Wellcome Trust University Award (2009-2014)

Associate Editor, Journal of Medical Ethics

guy.kahane@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Suite 8
Littlegate House
St. Ebbe’s St.
Oxford OX1 1PT

Research Interests

Value Theory, Meta-Ethics, Practical Ethics, Philosophy and Ethics of Neuroscience and Psychology

Career & Education

Fulford Junior Research Fellow, Somerville College, 2007-2010
D. Phil. in Philosophy, Oxford University
B. Phil. in Philosophy, Oxford University
B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology, Tel Aviv University

Guy Kahane

 

Publications

Books

  1. Kahane, G. E. Kanterian, E., and O. Kuusela, eds., Wittgenstein and His Interpreters , Blackwells Publishers, 2007

  2. Savulescu, J., R. ter Meulen, and G. Kahane, eds., Enhancing Human Capabilities, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Meta-ethics and Value Theory

  1. Kahane, G. Pain, Dislike, and Experience. Utilitas, 21, 3: 327-336, 2009.

  2. Kahane, G. Feeling Pain for the Very First Time: The Normative Knowledge  Argument. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 80, 1: 20-49, 2010.

  3. Kahane, G. Evolutionary Debunking Arguments, in Nous.45, 1: 103-125, 2011.

  4. Kahane, G. Should We Want God To Exist?, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 82: 3 774-696, 2011

  5. Chan, T. And G. Kahane. The Trouble with Being Sincere, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 41, 2: 215-234, 2011.

  6. Kahane, G. Value and Philosophical Possibility, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

  7. Kahane, G. Must Evaluative Realism Make a Semantic Claim?, forthcoming in The Journal of Moral Philosophy.

Moral Psychology

  1. Kahane, G. and N. Shackel. Do Abnormal Responses Show Utilitarian Bias? Nature, 452, 7185, 2008.

  2. Kahane, G. and N. Shackel, Methodological Issues in the Neuroscience of Moral Judgment, forthcoming in Mind and Language, 25, 5:561-582, 2010.

  3. Kahane, G., K. Wiech, N. Shackel, M. Farias, J. Savulescu and I. Tracey, ‘The Neural Basis of Intuitive and Counterintuitive Moral Judgement’, forthcoming in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

  4. Kahane, G. The Armchair and the Trolley: An Argument for Experimental Ethics, forthcoming in Philosophical Studies.


Applied Ethics

  1. Wilkinson, D. G. Kahane and J. Savulescu. “Neglected Personhood” and Neglected Questions. The American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience, 8, 9: 31-33, 2008.

  2. Kahane, G. and J. Savulescu. Brain-Damaged Patients and the Moral Significance of Consciousness. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 33: 1-21, 2009.

  3. Savulescu, J. and G. Kahane. The Moral Obligation to Create Children with the Best Chance of the Best Life. Bioethics, 23, 5: 274-290, 2009.

  4. Skene, L., D. Wilkinson, G. Kahane and J. Savulescu. Neuroimaging and the Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment From Patients in the Vegetative State, Medical Law Review,  17, 2: 245-261, 2009.

  5. Wilkinson, D., G. Kahane, M. Horne, and J. Savulescu. Functional neuroimaging and Withdrawal of Life-sustaining Treatment from Vegetative Patients, The Journal of Medical Ethics, 35, 8: 508-511, 2009.

  6. Kahane, G. Non-Identity, Self-Defeat, and Attitudes to Future People, Philosophical Studies, 145, 2: 193-214, 2009.

  7. Kahane, G and Savulescu, J. The Value of Sex in Procreative Reasons. American Journal of Bioethics, 10, 7: 22-24, 2010.

  8. Savulescu J. and G. Kahane, ‘Disability: A Welfarist Approach’, forthcoming in Journal of Clinical Ethics.

  9. Kahane, G. ‘Mastery Without Mystery: Why there is no Promethean Sin in Enhancement’, forthcoming in The Journal of Applied Philosophy.


Other Neuroscience

  1. Wiech, K., M. Farias, G. Kahane, N. Shackel, W. Tiede and I. Tracey. An fMRI Study Measuring Analgesia Enhanced by Religion as a Belief System. Pain, 139, 2: 467-476, 2008.


Invited Articles and Book Chapters

  1. Kahane, G. 'Pain, Ethical Significance of,' in Borchert, D., ed., The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2nd Edition, Macmillan (2006).

  2. Kahane, G., E. Kanterian, and O. Kuusela, 'Introduction,' in Wittgenstein and His Interpreters, Oxford: Blackwells Publishers (2007): 1-36.

  3. Kahane, G. 'Brain Imaging and the Inner Life,' The Lancet, 371 (2008): 1572-1573.

  4. Kahane G., and J. Savulescu, 'The Welfarist Account of Disability,' 2009, A. Cureton and K. Brownlee, eds., Disability and Disadvantage, Oxford University Press.

  5. Savulescu, J. G. Kahane and A. Sandberg. 'Well-being and Enhancement,' in Enhancing Human Capacities, J.Wiley-Blackwell, 3-18, 2011.

  6. Kahane. G. 'Reasons to Feel, Reasons to Take Pills' in J. Savulescu, R. ter Meulen and G. Kahane, eds., Enhancing Human Capabilities, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 166-178, 2011.

  7. Foddy, B., J. Savulescu, and G. Kahane. ‘Psychiatry and Practical Ethics’, forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Psychiatry, Oxford University Press.

Reviews

  1. Kahane, G. 'Meditations on the Flourishing and the Fallen', Times Higher Education Supplement, May 2007.

  2. Kahane, G. review of P. A. Tabensky, ed., 'The Positive Function of Evil', South African Journal of Philosophy, 29, 1: 57-60, 2010.

  3. Kahane, G. review of S. Wilkinson, 'Choosing Tomorrow’s Children: The Ethics of Selective Reproduction', in Medical Law Review, 19, 2, 2011.

  4. Kahane, G. review of S. Stewart-Williams, 'Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life: How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Thought You Knew', Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, August 2011.

Selected Grants and Awards

  1. Volkswagen Foundation Research Project Grant, ‘Intuition and Emotion in Moral Decision-Making: Empirical Research and Normative Implications’, €400,000, 2010-2013 (with Drs Stephan Schleim, University of Groningen, and Birte Englich, University of Cologne).

  2. Wellcome Trust University Award, ‘Well-being, Consciousness, and Moral Decision-Making’, £190,000, 2009-2014.