Associate Professor of Philosophy

Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Ethics and Ethical Theory

Department of Philosophy
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Canada

Office: 1226 Social Sciences
Phone: (403) 220-3171
Fax: (403) 289-5698
Email: wglannon@ucalgary.ca  

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, Yale University
Ph.D., Spanish Literature, Johns Hopkins University
B.A., Duke

Research Interests

Bioethics
Ethical Theory

Selected Publications

Books

Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science: Essential Readings in Neuroethics (ed.) (Dana Press, 2007) 

Bioethics and the Brain (Oxford University Press, 2006)

Biomedical Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2004)

Contemporary Readings in Biomedical Ethics (ed.) (Wadsworth, 2002)

The Mental Basis of Responsibility (Ashgate, 2002)

Genes and Future People: Philosophical Issues in Human Genetics (Westview, 2001)

Articles

 "Neurostimulation and the Minimally Conscious State," Bioethics 22 (2008): 337-345.

"Psychopharmacological Enhancement," Neuroethics 1 (2008): 45-54.

"The Case Against Conscription of Cadaveric Organs for Transplantation," Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 17 (2008): 330-336.

"Underestimating the Risk in Living Kidney Donation," Journal of Medical Ethics 34 (2008): 127-128.

"Phase I Oncology Trials: Why the Therapeutic Misconception Will not Go Away," Journal of Medical Ethics 32 (2006): 252-255.

"Neuroethics," Bioethics 20 (2006): 37-52

"Psychopharmacology and Memory," Journal of Medical Ethics 32 (2006): 164-168.

"Neurobiology, Neuroimaging, and Free Will." Midwest Studies in Philosophy 29 (2005): 68-82.

"Do the Sick Have a Right to Cadaveric Organs?" Journal of Medical Ethics 29 (2003) 153-156.

"The Psychology and Physiology of Depression, " Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 9 (2002) 265-269.

"Depression as a Mind-Body Problem," Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 9 (2002) 243-254.

"Should All Living Donors Be Treated Equally?" Transplantation 74 (2002) 418-421 (Second author, with L. Ross, M. Josephson, R. Thistlethwaite).

"Do Genetic Relations Create Moral Obligations in Organ Transplantation?" , Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 11 (2002) 153-159 (First author, with L. Ross).

"Identity, Prudential Concern, and Extended Lives," Bioethics 16 (2002) 266-281 (with a response from John Harris)

"Extending the Human Life Span," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 27 (2002): 339-354 (with a response from John Harris and Soren Holm).

"Persons, Lives, and Posthumous Harms," Journal of Social Philosophy 36 (2001) 127-142.