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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.
Research area 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
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 → 15/06/20
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. M. I., 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
Preventing Mitochondrial Disease Using Genomics - Ethical, Social and Legal Aspects
Mills, C., Sparrow, R., Ludlow, K., Warren, N., Walker, M., Newson, A. J. & Degeling, C.
Australian Government Department of Health
1/07/20 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
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
A new ethics for the development and application of genetic technologies in a pluralist society
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/02/11 → 31/12/16
Project: Research
Research Output
Virtue and Vice in Our Relationships with Robots: Is There an Asymmetry and How Might it be Explained?
Sparrow, R., 30 Jan 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : International Journal of Social Robotics. 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Do robots have race? Race, social construction, and HRI
Sparrow, R., 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Robotics Has a Race Problem
Sparrow, R., 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Science Technology and Human Values.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Citation
(Scopus)
Teledildonics and rape by deception
Sparrow, R. & Karas, L., 28 Aug 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Law, Innovation and Technology. 12, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
The promise and perils of AI in medicine
Sparrow, R. & Hatherley, J., 2019, In : International Journal of Chinese & Comparative Philosophy of Medicine. 17, 2, p. 79-109 31 p., 10.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
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Prizes
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan (short-term)
Sparrow, Robert (Recipient), 10 Jan 2014
Prize: Competitive Fellowships
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Activities
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: Input paper for the Horizon Scanning Project “The Future of Agricultural Technologies” on behalf of the Australian Council of Learned Academies
Robert Sparrow (Fellow), & Mark Howard (Fellow)
2019
Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
Robotics. Input paper for the Horizon Scanning Project “The Future of Agricultural Technologies” on behalf of the Australian Council of Learned Academies
Robert Sparrow (Fellow), & Mark Howard (Fellow)
2019
Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
Large Scale Optimisation and Data Fusion. Input paper for the Horizon Scanning Project “The Future of Agricultural Technologies” on behalf of the Australian Council of Learned Academies
Mark Howard (Fellow), & Robert Sparrow (Fellow)
2019
Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
Australasian Ethics Network Conference 2018
Robert Sparrow (Invited speaker)
28 Sep 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
Australian Intelligent Transport Systems Summit 2018
Robert Sparrow (Speaker)
29 Aug 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
Press / Media
Researchers say we perceive robots as having race — and there's 'no need for all robots to be white\
25/07/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
We're racist towards robots, too, study finds
24/07/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature