CANCELLED: Hale Lecture Series - Ronald Sandler, Northeastern University
Thursday, March 19th
3:30-5:00 PM
Eastman Hall
Room 2000
Ronald Sandler
Northeastern University
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Should We Engineer Species in Order to Save Them?
There is increasing interest in using biotechnologies – such as cloning, genetic modification, synthetic biology, and stem cells - for conservation purposes. In this talk, Professor Sandler presents three approaches to ethical analysis and evaluation of conservation biotechnologies: instrumental analysis; environmental value analysis; and form of life analysis. He then applies these perspectives to efforts to create genetic likenesses of extinct species (de-extinction) and to spreading intentional genetic modifications through wild populations (gene drives). These cases demonstrate that different conservation biotechnology cases often have very different ethical profiles. Finally, he argues that certain applications of genetic modification – and gene drives in particular – are especially interesting from the perspective of conservation philosophy.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Interpreters provided upon request & subject to availability.
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Open to the Public
| Cost | FREE |
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