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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
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The Uses and Abuses of Black Box AI in Emergency Medicine
Sparrow, R., Howard, M. & Hatherley, J.
10/08/20 → 10/08/21
Project: Research
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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.
Department of Health (Australia)
1/07/20 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
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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 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
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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
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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 → 30/11/20
Project: Research
Research output
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Do robots have race? Race, social construction, and HRI
Sparrow, R., Sep 2020, In : IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. 27, 3, p. 144-150 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
Make way for the wealthy? Autonomous vehicles, markets in mobility, and social justice
Sparrow, R. & Howard, M., 10 Apr 2020, In : Mobilities. 15, 4, p. 514-526 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Robotics has a race problem
Sparrow, R., 2020, In : Science Technology and Human Values. 45, 3, p. 538-560 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
4 Citations (Scopus) -
Teledildonics and rape by deception
Sparrow, R. & Karas, L., 2020, In : Law, Innovation and Technology. 12, 1, p. 175-204 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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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
3 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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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
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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)
2019Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
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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)
2019Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
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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)
2019Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
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Biometric Mirror- Digital Ethics and Society
Robert Sparrow (Contributor)
20 Sep 2018Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2018
Robert Sparrow (Invited speaker)
22 May 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
Press / Media
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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
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We're racist towards robots, too, study finds
24/07/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature