TUESDAY 20 OCTOBER 2009

Enhancement in sport  (chaired by Julian Savulescu, Oxford)

0930 – 1020:                    Anti-doping: Not the only matter of concern for elite sport

                                               Bengt Kayser (Director, Institut des Sciences du Mouvement et de la Médecine du Sport, University of Geneva) (download  )

Respondent: Mike McNamee (Professor of Applied Ethics, Swansea University, Wales)

1020 – 1110:                    The Ethics of Sport Enhancement and the Meaning of Sport

                                               Tom Murray (President of The Hastings Center) (download  )

Respondent: Bennett Foddy (Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioethics, Princeton University)

1110 – 1140:                    COFFEE

1140 – 1220:                    Genetics and Ethics in Sport

                                               Sigmund Loland (Professor of Sport Philosophy, Norwegian University for Sport and Physical Education)

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Respondent: Ingmar Persson (Professor of Practical Philosophy, Gothenburg University, Sweden)

1220 – 1300:                    Who Guard the Guardians? – A Critical Reflection on Recent  Developments in the Fight against Doping

                                               Verner Moller (Professor, Department of Sport Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark)

1300 – 1400:                    LUNCH

Life-extension (chaired by Verner Moller, Geneva)

1400 – 1450:                    The Foreseeability of Real Anti-Aging Medicine: Focusing the Debate

                                               Aubrey de Grey (Chief Science Officer, « SENS » Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence)

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Respondent: Gaia Barrazetti (Researcher, EPFL, University of Lausanne)

1450 – 1530:                    Anti-ageing: Results of a Swiss study

                                               Astrid Stuckelberger (Institut de Médecine Sociale et Préventive, University of Geneva)

1530 – 1600:                    COFFEE

1600 – 1650:                    Prevention and Life Extension

                                               Eric Juengst (Professor of Medical Ethics, Oncology, and Philosophy of Science, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Case Western Reserve University)

Respondent: Massimo Reichlin (Professor of Moral Philosophy, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano)

Conference dinner

WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER 2009

General questions (chaired by Bengt Kayser, Geneva)

0930 – 1020:                    General questions

John Harris (Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics, University of Manchester)

Respondent: Andy Miah (Chair of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, University of the West of Scotland)

Neuro-enhancement (chaired by Bengt Kayser, Geneva)

1020 – 1100:                    Cognitive Enhancement and Increased Responsibility

                                               Nicole Vincent (Postdoctoral Researcher, TU Delft)

1100 – 1130:                    COFFEE

1130 – 1210:                    The 'Moral Improvement' Criterion for Neuroenhancements

Tom Douglas (Christ Church Senior Scholar, University of Oxford)

1210 – 1300:                    Human Psychology, Scientific Progress and Moral Enhancement

                                               Julian Savulescu (Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford) &

Ingmar Persson (Professor of Practical Philosophy, Gothenburg University, Sweden)

Respondent: Tom Buller (Associate Professor in Philosophy, University of Alaska Anchorage) $

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1300 - 1400:                     LUNCH

1400 - 1450:                     Oversight of Cognitive Enhancement in Young People

                                               Ilina Singh (Wellcome Trust University Lecturer in Bioethics and Society, London School of Economics and Political Science)

Respondent: Alexandre Mauron (Director, Institut d’éthique biomédicale, University of Geneva)

General questions (chaired by Julian Savulescu, Oxford)

1450 – 1540:                    Critique of Human Enhancement

                                               Paul Root Wolpe (Professor of Bioethics, Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics, and Professor, Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Sociology, Emory University)

Respondent: Andy Miah (Chair of ethics and emerging technologies at the University of the West of Scotland)

1540 – 1610:                    COFFEE

1610 – 1700:                    Legal questions

                                               Hank Greely (Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law, Stanford University)

Respondent: Margareta Baddeley (Director Civil Law Department, University of Geneva)