1. Julian Savulescu was born on 1963 and is an Australian philosopher and bioethicist.
19 Facts About Julian Savulescu
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Julian Savulescu is Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics and Director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.
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Julian Savulescu is the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, and was previously the Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and co-director of the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities.
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Julian Savulescu is a visiting professorial fellow in Biomedical Ethics at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia, and distinguished visiting professor in Law at Melbourne University since 2017.
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Julian Savulescu directs the Biomedical Ethics Research Group and is a member of the Centre for Ethics of Pediatric Genomics in Australia.
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Julian Savulescu is a former editor and current board member of the Journal of Medical Ethics.
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Julian Savulescu established a group on the ethics of genetics at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia.
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Julian Savulescu describes it as the moral obligation of parents who can select among potential children to choose those expected to have the best life prospects.
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Bioethicist Rebecca Bennett argued against Julian Savulescu's position, contending that not selecting the best offspring harms no one since those potential individuals would otherwise never have existed.
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Julian Savulescu further wrote that the intuitions supporting such a selection merely reflect non-moral preferences rather than genuine moral obligations.
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In 2009, Professor Julian Savulescu presented a paper at the "Festival of Dangerous Ideas", held at the Sydney Opera House in October 2009, entitled "Unfit for Life: Genetically Enhance Humanity or Face Extinction", which can be seen on Vimeo.
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Julian Savulescu argues that stem cell research is important enough as to be justifiable even if one conceptualizes the embryo as a person.
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Julian Savulescu is a member of the board of directors executive committee of the International Neuroethics Society.
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Julian Savulescu was a co-author of Love Is the Drug: The Chemical Future of Our Relationships addressing the future potential widespread use of aphrodisiacs.
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In 2009, Julian Savulescu was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award by Monash University.
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Julian Savulescu has a Honorary degree from the University of Bucharest.
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Julian Savulescu was awarded the 'Thinker' Award in the top 100 Australian Future Leaders, and is a Monash University Distinguished Alumni.
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Julian Savulescu was shortlisted for the AHRC Medal for Leadership in Medical Humanities in 2018.
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Julian Savulescu was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2023.