Robert Sparrow

Personal profile

Biography

At the highest level of description my research interests are political philosophy and applied ethics; I am interested in philosophical arguments with real-world implications. More specifically, I am working in or have worked in: political philosophy, bioethics, environmental ethics, media ethics; just war theory; and the ethics of science and technology.

A more-or-less-up-to-date list of my publications with links to copies of (some of) them, can be found here. Copies of all of my published papers are available on request.

Keywords

Applied Ethics
Political Philosophy
Ethics
Bioethics
Philosophy
Human Enhancement
PGD
Intersex Conditions
Sex
Sex Selection
Genetic Relatedness
Parenthood
Reproductive Liberty
Stem Cells
Therapeutic Cloning
Military Ethics
Robotic Weapons
Robot Ethics
Cloning
IVF
Nanotechnology

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Projects 2007 2020

2 Finished
3 Active

Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Inheritable Genome Modification in Human Reproduction

Mills, C., Sparrow, R., Ludlow, K. & Warren, N.

11/03/19 → 27/03/20

Project: Research

Legal and ethical issues in the inheritable genetic modification of humans

Mills, C., Ludlow, K., Sparrow, R. & Warren, N.

Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University

16/06/17 → 31/05/20

Project: Research

ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science

Wallace, G., Forsyth, M., Macfarlane, D., Officer, D., Cook, M., Dodds, S., Spinks, G., Alici, G., Moulton, S., in het Panhuis, M., Kapsa, R., Higgins, M., Mozer, A., Crook, J., Innis, P., Coote, M. L., Wang, X., Howlett, P. C., Pringle, J. M., Hancock, L., Paull, B., Sparrow, R., Zhang, J., Spiccia, L., Diamond, D., Guldi, D., Kim, S. J., Unwin, P. & Watanabe, M.

Australian Research Council (ARC)

30/06/14 → 31/12/20

Project: Research

A new ethics for the development and application of genetic technologies in a pluralist society

Sparrow, R.

Australian Research Council (ARC)

1/02/11 → 31/12/16

Project: Research

Good Soldiers and Ethical Soldiers

Sparrow, R., Coady, C. & Wolfendale, J.

Australian Research Council (ARC)

2/01/07 → 31/12/09

Project: Research

Research Output 1999 2019

61 Article
29 Chapter (Book)
6 Comment / Debate
5 Encyclopaedia / Dictionary Entry
14 More

Yesterday’s Child: How Gene Editing for Enhancement Will Produce Obsolescence—and Why It Matters

Sparrow, R., 3 Jul 2019, In : American Journal of Bioethics. 19, 7, p. 6-15 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Ethics and the cardiac pacemaker: More than just end-of-life issues

Hutchison, K. & Sparrow, R., 2018, In : Europace. 20, 5, p. 739-746 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review

Playing for fun, training for war: Can popular claims about recreational video gaming and military simulations be reconciled?

Sparrow, R., Harrison, R., Oakley, J. & Keogh, B., 2018, In : Games and Culture: a journal of interactive media. 13, 2, p. 174-192 19 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

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Robots and Racism

Bartneck, C., Yogeeswaran, K., Ser, Q. M., Woodward, G., Sparrow, R., Wang, S. & Eyssel, F., 26 Feb 2018, HRI 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Kanda, T., Hoffman, G., Šabanović, S. & Tapus, A. (eds.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 196-204 9 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review