Kathinka Evers
Kathinka Evers
Senior Researcher
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Kathinka Evers is a senior researcher at the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics. Her main research focus is neuroethics and the neural basis of consciousness and she teaches an advanced level course in neuroethics. Kathinka Evers’ research also includes biobank ethics and she is part of the BBMRI.se network. She conducted her doctoral studies in philosophy at Balliol College, University of Oxford, at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, and at Lund University, Sweden, where she received her doctoral degree in 1991. She has been a research fellow at Balliol College, University of Oxford (1994); at the Department of Philosophy and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, Colchester (1996-97); invited professor at the University of Tasmania, Hobart (1999), at École Normale Supérieure, Paris (2002), and at Collège de France, Paris (2006-7). For six years (1997-2002) she was the Executive Director for the Standing Committee on Responsibility and Ethics in Science (SCRES) of the International Council for Science (ICSU).
E-mail: Kathinka.Evers@crb.uu.se
Phone: +46 18 471 62 43
Research profile
Teaching
- Neuroethics (7,5 credits, advanced level)
- Research Ethics and the Philosophy of Science (1,5 credit, postgraduate course for medicine and pharmacy)
- Introduction to Scientific Research (7,5 credits, postgraduate course for medicine and pharmacy)
PhD supervision
Selected publications
Evers K, Neuroética. Cuando la materia se despierta, Katz editores, 2010
Evers K, Uma Nova Visão do Cérebro: o Aparecimento da Neuroética, in Curado & Oliveira (eds.) 2010, Pessoas Transparentes: Questões Actuais de Bioética, EdicõesAlmedina, Coimbra, Portugal, 2010:77–92.
Kuhlau F, Höglund AT, Evers K, Eriksson S, A precautionary principle for dual use research in the life sciences, Bioethics, 2011;25:1-8.
Evers K., Neuroéthique. Quand la matière s'éveille. Éditions Odile Jacob, Paris, 2009.
Evers K, Personalized medicine in psychiatry: ethical challenges and opportunities, Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience: Personalized Medicine: Prediction, Prevention, Participation, 2009;11(4):427-433.
Evers K, Ethics in Science: A Socio-Political Challenge, in Sitter-Liver (ed.): Universality: From Theory to Practice, Academic Press, Fribourg, 2009;393-404.
Kuhlau F, Eriksson S, Evers K, Höglund AT, Taking Due Care: Moral obligations in dual use research, Bioethics, 2008:22(9):477-487.
Evers K, Philosophical challenges for neuroethics. European Neuropsychopharmacology, Journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2008;18(4).
Evers K, Toward a philosophy for neuroethics. An informed materialist view of the brain might help to develop theoretical frameworks for applied neuroethics, EMBO reports 2007;8:S1, S48– S51.
Evers K, Kilander L, Lindau M, Insight in Frontotemporal Dementia. Conceptual Analysis and Empirical Evaluation of the Consensus Criterion “Loss of Insight” in Frontotemporal Dementia. Brain & Cognition, 2007;63:13-23.
Evers K, Perspectives on Memory Manipulation – Using Beta-blockers to Cure Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, special issue on neuroethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2007;16:138-146.
Evers K, Neuroethics: A Philosophical Challenge, The American Journal of Bioethics, 2005;.5(2):31-2.
Evers K, Codes of conduct – Standards for ethics in research, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2004.
Evers K, International Guidelines for Ethics in Science, UNESCO's Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems, 2003.
Borge OJ, Evers K, Aspects on Properties, Use and Ethical Considerations of Embryonic Stem Cells – a short review, Stem Cell Biology and Clinical Applications, Cytotechnology, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2003;41:59-68.
Evers K, European Perspectives on Therapeutic Cloning, The New England Journal of Medicine, 2002;346(20).
Evers K, Har forskare ansvar? – Om vetenskapsetik som politisk utmaning' P2-akademiet, NRK, Boksenteret A/S, Oslo, Norway 2002.
Evers K, Ethics in science: a socio-political challenge', in the Proceedings of the Seminar on “Ethics in Science and Technology and Its Impact on the Society” organised by the China Committee for ICSU (ICSU-China) in Beijing, 2002 July 20 th to 21 st.
Evers K, Formulating International Ethical Guidelines for Science, The American Association for the Advancement of Science Professional Ethics Report , Volume 2000;XIII(2). A Chinese translation is published in Impact of Science on Society , 2002;2.
Evers K, The Importance of Being a Self, The International Journal of Applied Philosophy 2001;15(1).
Evers K, Korsakoff Syndrome: The Amnesic Self, The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 1999;13(2).
Evers K, 'The Identity of clones', Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1999;24(1):67-76.
Evers K, Why Tolerance? , The Excalibur Press of London, UK, 1996..
CV in short:
Present position: Senior researcher
Previous position (1997-2002):
Executive Director for the Standing Committee on Responsibility and Ethics in Science (SCRES) of the International Council for Science (ICSU).
2006-2007: Invited Professor at Collège de France, Paris.
2002: Invited Professor on the Chair Condorcet at École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
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