Intuitively Rational: How We Think and How We Should, a new book written by Andrew McGee and Charles Foster, has been published this month. This book is about the respective roles of intuition and reasoning in ethics. It responds to a number of well-known philosophers and psychologists and…
Associate Professor Andrew McGee discusses Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation
Why making voluntary assisted dying legal best respects both sides of this debate After almost three decades of refusing to agree to it, it looks as though Australian parliaments are slowly beginning to warm to the idea of voluntary assisted dying (VAD). Legislation has already been passed in…
Dr Andrew McGee on the therapy and enhancement distinction in regulating germline genome editing
Dr Andrew McGee, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, has delivered a thought provoking new paper on the importance of the therapy v enhancement distinction in regulation germline genome editing. This paper has now been published in the leading bioethics journal. In a first major study, the…