Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine, at the University of Sydney.
Research interests – Philosophical arguments with real-world implications.
More specifically, Rob works in or has worked in political philosophy, bioethics, environmental ethics, media ethics; just war theory; and the ethics of science and technology.
For example:
Environmental ethics
Especially the ethics of genetic modification, the ethics of our treatment of complex inorganic systems, and also applications of virtue ethical arguments to environmental issues.
New reproductive technologies
A large proportion of Rob’s philosophical work in bioethics concerns the ethics of new reproductive technologies and especially their implications for our ideas about normal human bodies and the importance of genetic relatedness.
The ethics of nanotechnology
Rob has participated in debates about the ethics of nanotechnology both because of the possible implications and impacts of nanotechnology and also because these debates offer a unique opportunity to discuss how a democratic society should make decisions about science and technology policy.
More information (from his old position at Monash University)
http://arts.monash.edu.au/philosophy-bioethics/staff/rsparrow.php
