Faculty of Education

Garðar Ágúst Árnason

Professor
460 8569

Location

  • O208
  • Sólborg

Office hours

Office hours by appointment

Specialisation

Applied ethics Bioethics Philosophy of education
Research portal - Garðar Ágúst Árnason 

General information

Courses

SIÐ0176110
Ethics and Moral Controversy
SHS0156160
Ethics, Ideas and Schools
HSM1505160
Philosophy of Education
HEI0176170
Introduction to philosophy
ÁLM1510160
Issues in Educational Affairs
SHS0156160
Ethics, Ideas and Schools

Research

2023
Ethical, legal and social aspects of human cerebral organoids and their governance in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States
2023
Ethical Issues in Cerebral Organoid Research
2023
Initial heritable genome editing: mapping a responsible pathway from basic research to the clinic
2022
Public Engagement With Brain Organoid Research and Application: Lessons From Genome Editing
2020
The Emergence and Development of Animal Research Ethics: A Review with a Focus on Nonhuman Primates
2020
Asking the Right Questions about Research with Nonhuman Primates
2019
Regulating Clinical Innovation: Trachea Transplants and Tissue Engineering
2018
Objections still fail: a response to Faria
2018
The ethical justification for the use of non-human primates in research: the Weatherall report revisited
2018
Human–Animal Parallels in Clinical Ethics and Research Ethics
2018
Foucault and the Human Subject of Science
2017
Synthetic Biology between Self-Regulation and Public Discourse: Ethical Issues and the Many Roles of the Ethicist.
2017
The Role and Obligations of Ethicists as Members of Ethics Committees in Professional Organizations
2017
Animal Research and the Political Theory of Animal Rights
2017
Biopolitics and the Longevity of Left-Handers
2017
Synthetic biology between self-regulation and public discourse: Ethical issues and the many roles of the ethicist
Genetics, rhetoric and policy
On human genetic databases
2016
On balance: weighing harms and benefits in fundamental neurological research using nonhuman primates.
2013
Donating human samples: Who benefits? Cases from Iceland, Kenya and Indonesia
2013
Exploring central philosophical concepts in benefit sharing: Vulnerability, exploitation and undue inducement
2012
Biopower (Foucault)
2011
Neuroscience, free will and moral responsibility
2010
Neuroimaging, uncertainty, and the problem of dispositions.
2010
Neuroimaging, uncertainty, and the problem of dispositions
2009
Guest editorial: vulnerability revisited.
2009
Undue fear of inducements in research in developing countries.
2009
Guest editorial: Vulnerability revisited
2009
Undue fear of inducements in research in developing countries
2007
On human genetic databases
2007
The Ethics and Governance of Human Genetic Databases
2007
The ethics and governance of human genetic databases: European perspectives
Second Thoughts on Biobanks: