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Margit Sutrop

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Biographical Sketch

Margit Sutrop is Professor of Practical Philosophy, Head of the Institute for Philosophy and Semiotics and the founding Director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at Tartu University. She has published widely on aesthetics, moral and political philosophy, bioethics, and ethics of technology. Her current research interests are value pluralism, moral motivation, and ethical issues of new technologies. She is the author of “Fiction and Imagination. The Anthropological Function of Literature” (Paderborn: Mentis, 2000) and editor of 10 books. She has been guest editor of a special issue of Bioethics (vol. 18, 2004) on pharmacogenetics and of Trames (vol. 8, 2004) on the ethical, legal and social issues of human genetic databases. She has coordinated numerous national (10 grants) and international (8 grants) R&D projects. She is member of the Estonian President’s Advisory Board, member of the Estonian Council of Bioethics, member of the Clinical Ethics Committee of Tartu University Clinic, member of the Council of the Academia Europaea, of the European Commission’s Advisory Board for Humanities in the 7th FP and an independent ethical expert of the European Commission.

Keynote presentation: How to avoid a dichotomy between “autonomy” and “beneficence”? From liberalism to communitarianism and beyond
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This conference is arranged by Cesagen at the universities of Lancaster and Cardiff and the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at Uppsala University.