The Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Bucharest hosts the tenth edition of the Bucharest-Oxford Workshops in Practical Ethics on April 10, 2025. The event is organized by the Center for Research in Applied Ethics in partnership with the Oxford Uehiro Institute and brings together professors and researchers from three major academic centers: the University of Oxford, the University of Bucharest, and the National University of Singapore.
The event program includes lectures by philosophers with significant contributions to moral philosophy and applied ethics, such as Roger Crisp (director of the Uehiro Oxford Institute and professor at St Anne’s College, Oxford) and Julian Savulescu (director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the National University of Singapore and professor at NUS Yong Lin School of Medicine).
Topics covered in this edition of the workshop include the relationship between values and the meaning of life, user attitudes toward Artificial Intelligence, the issue of trust in political institutions, the ethics of polygenic editing and vaccination, digital avatars, and the use of language models in philosophical research.
The workshop will take place at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, in the Mircea Florian Amphitheater (1st floor) from 09:15 to 15:30.
The avataResponsibility team will present their work in progress regarding avatars, moral responsibility, and research tools deployed in the project.
Radu Uszkai & Emanuel Socaciu (Research Centre in Applied Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest), Digital duplicates as proxies and the principal-agent problem
Mihnea Dobre, Alex Dancu, Mihaela Constantinescu (Research Centre in Applied Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest), Enhancing Philosophical Research with Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Large Language Models
Anda Zahiu (Research Centre in Applied Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest), The Case Against Trust in Public Government
