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February 9th, 2015

On Informed Consent

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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

Forum for Philosophy

February 9th, 2015

On Informed Consent

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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

Onora O’Neill/ Jonathan Wolff

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Monday 9 February 2015, 6.30 – 8pm
New Theatre, East Building, LSE

Onora O’Neill, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge. She is also the current Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and a crossbench member of the House of Lords

Jonathan Wolff, Professor of Philosophy, University College London

Chair: Peter Dennis, LSE Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow

Informed consent is not the most fundamental ethical standard, but a means of securing respect for other, more basic standards or aims. It is neither possible nor required when public goods—such as sound currency or clean air—are to be provided. Where it is possible and can be required, as in transactions with individuals, it must be tailored to their cognitive capacities. Genuine, legitimating consent is demanding, and is not achieved by the ‘tick and click’ approaches used in many commercial transactions.

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