The Human Person: Challenges for Science, Religion and Governance
Synopsis
Rapid advances in science and technology are raising fundamental questions about human life, flourishing, suffering, and death. When does human life begin and deserve protection? How is deeper knowledge of genetics reshaping our conceptions of the human person? What does it mean to live and die with dignity amid 21st technologies? These and other ethical questions at the intersection of science and the human person have a global character, encompassing all of humanity.
Date: March 3-4, 2014
Venue: Georgetown University in Qatar
Presentations from the 2014 Conference – from the Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing’s QScience (includes all papers below).
| Paper Title | Author |
| The Human Person: Challenges for Religion, Science and Governance and Prospects for Common Responses |
Osman Bakar |
| Exploring Personhood in Islamic Thought | Ebrahim Moosa |
| Human Relationship in Contemporary Muslim Bioethics | Sherine Hamdy |
| Human Personhood in Contemporary Islamic Bioethical Discourse | Mohammed Ghaly |
| Gender, Islam, And Assisted Reproductive Technologies | Robert Tappan |
| Law And Ethics In Islamic Bioethics | Abdulaziz Sachedina |
| Relational Aspects of Embryology in Islamic Bioethics | Thomas Eich |
| Boundaries of Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Islamic Lineage Regulations | Ayman Shabana |
| Human Dignity And The Right To Die | Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki |
| Neuroscience and the Human Person | Charles Camosy |
| Neuroscience & Four Challenges Concerning Freedom, Character, & Action | Gregory R Peterson |
| The Challenges of Neuroscience and International Opportunities for Neuroethics | Elisabetta Lanzilao, James Giordano |
| Three Visions of Persons: Sacred, Secular, and Scientific | Owen Flanagan |
Media Coverage of the Human Person Conference (external website)
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