The 2025 edition of the Experimental philosophical bioethics ("BioXPhi") Summit will be held in Basel from June 25^th to 27^th, 2025.

For this occasion, we are pleased to welcome as keynote speakers Dr. Matti Wilks from the University of Edinburgh, and Dr. Edmond Awad from the University of Exeter and University of Oxford. This conference is co-organized by the Institute for Biomedical Ethics of the University of Basel, the Uehiro Oxford Institute of the University of Oxford, and the Centre for Biomedical Ethics - Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine of the National University of Singapore.

BioXPhi uses the tools of cognitive science, moral psychology, and experimental philosophy to investigate topics that are traditionally of interest to bioethicists, with an eye to contributing to substantive normative debates in medical ethics and related areas. Example papers can be found at the PhilPapers page for experimental philosophy: bioethics.

Conference program (full program TBA)

Call for contributions

We invite junior and senior researchers working in bioethics or other relevant fields, and using or engaging with methods of cognitive science, moral psychology, empirical bioethics, and experimental philosophy, to submit contributions.

Abstract for conference presentation - guidelines:

To submit an abstract for a conference presentation, please send an email with the subject line "Conference Submission for Bioxphi 2025" to bioxphi2025@clutterunibas.ch by January 31st, 2025.

The body of the email should include a proposed title for the presentation, the (list of) author(s) and affiliation(s), and a 500 word abstract outlining the topic/study, methods, and (if available) results.

Please also indicate if any data have already been collected/analyzed or whether the study is in-progress.

Abstract for poster presentation - guidelines:

We will favor poster submissions that have a graduate student, postdoctoral researcher, or (other) early-career researcher(s) as the first author.

To submit an abstract for the poster presentation, please send an email with the subject line "Poster Submission for Bioxphi 2025" to bioxphi2025@clutterunibas.ch by January 31st, 2025.

The body of the email should include a proposed title for the poster, a list of authors and affiliations, and a 300 word abstract outlining the topic/study, methods, and (if available) results.

Please clearly indicate if the first author is a graduate student, postdoctoral researcher, or other early-career researcher (within 5 years of PhD); please also indicate if any data have already been collected/analyzed or whether the study is in-progress. In addition to empirical work, we will consider purely theoretical posters that engage with BioXPhi or empirical bioethics.

Meals will be covered for all presenters during the full conference, including a dinner on Thursday, June 26th.

Registration

Registration is not open yet.

Organizers

Tenzin Wangmo, University of Basel
Brian D. Earp, National University of Singapore
Carme Isern, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Christian Rodriguez Perez, University of Basel
Emilian Mihailov, University of Bucharest
Ivar Rodriguez Hannikainen, University of Granada
Kathryn Francis, University of Leeds

Our "Sister" Conference: Euro X-Phi 2025

If you’re interested in experimental philosophy, you may also want to check out the 5th European Experimental Philosophy Conference (Euro X-Phi 2025) - July 10–12, 2025, at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, UK. The conference welcomes contributions from all areas of experimental philosophy, with a call for abstracts open until March 1, 2025. Accepted formats include talks, posters, and symposia. For more details and submission guidelines, visit: https://x-phi.uea.ac.uk/EuroX-Phi2025-conference/