Dr Neil Manson

PhD Supervision Interests

Ethics of communication and information.

Informed consent
Decision making in a medical context
Consent as a communicative act.
The ethics of spin, PR and media.

The ethics of secrecy and concealment.
The nature and ethical significance of genetic information.
Information privacy and epistemic virtue.

The vice of curiosity.
Applied ethics and social epistemology.

Current Teaching

PHIL100 - Introduction to Philosophy

PPR205 Knowledge and Reality

PPR307 History of Twentieth Century Philosophy

PPR 456 Paternalism, AUtonomy and Consent

Research Interests

Neil C. Manson studied philosophy in London , taking his BA at King's College London in 1992 and his MPhil at University College London in 1995. He then went to Corpus Christi College Oxford, gaining his DPhil in 1998 with a thesis entitled Conscious Thought. From 1998 to 2005 he had two research fellowships at King's College Cambridge. He has taught philosophy in London, Oxford and Cambridge.

His research is, broadly, to do with the ethics of communication and information. It falls into four broad, interconnected, areas:

1. Consent, informed consent, and the ethics of communication.
2. The ethics of spin and selective interpretation
3. The virtues of not knowing (the vice of curiosity); the foundations of information privacy

Profile

Applied philosophy/public policy

Neil Manson is currently an associate edictor of the Journal of Applied Philosophy, and was formally (2006-11) the treasurer of the Society of Applied Philosophy.

I have taken part in a wide range of applied philosophical and policy events and activities:

Spring 2008- invited member of the NHS Organ Donation Taskforce 'Ethics Working Group', working on issues to do with consent (e.g., opt-in, opt out, mandated choice) for organ donation.

March 08 -invited participant and respondent, British Academy workshop: 'Philosophy and Public Policy'.

May 08 - invited participant, MRC/Wellcome workshop: 'Regulation and Biomedical Research'

May 08 - invited participant, UK) Human Tissue Authority workshop on directed deceased (organ) donation.

July 08 - invited participant, Nuffield Council on Bioethics fact-finding meeting on (ethics of) dementia.

April 09 - invited speaker/participant in Public Health Genetics Foundation/CRASSH workshop 'Policy, Groups and Populations in a Genomic Era'

Jan 10 - invited participant in AHRC/Human Genetics Commission seminar 'Understanding Genetic Discrimination'

Jun 10 invited participant in Technology Strategy Board 'Knowledge sharing and extending the frontiers of knowledge' workshop.

Jan 11 invited speaker/participant AHRC/HFEA/SAP workshop 'Ethical issues in gamete and embryo donation'

May 11 invited participant in workshop on Ethics of Fabry Disease Newborn Screening Academisch Medisch Centrum, Amsterdam

June 12  Invited witness to UK Leveson Inquiry: Culture, Practice and Ethics of the Press

Office hours

Neil's office hours are Wednesday 11-1.

• Philosophy of Mind and Psychology Research Cluster

  24/08/2007 → 31/12/2011
  Rachel Cooper, Brian Garvey, Neil Manson, Alison Stone, Cain Todd
  A number of people in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR have research interests in the philosophy of mind, psychology, psychoanalysis and psychiatry, and there is a reading group ... Read more»

• The Centre for Bioethics and Medical Law was officially opened in March 2007

  22/11/2007
  The Centre promotes high quality interdisciplinary research in bioethics and medical law across a number of disciplines within the University with a clear unifying focus upon the legal and medical dim ... Read more»