DrNicole Vincent

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The concept of responsibility occupies centre stage in Dr Vincent's scholarly pursuits, and socially responsible innovation and value-sensitive design are key features of her approach to a wide range of topics in a diverse range of fields including neuroethics, neurolaw, philosophy and ethics of emerging technologies, political philosophy, public policy, jurisprudence and philosophy of law, bioethics, media, feminism, gender, and happiness.

Her earlier work focused predominantly on the fields of neuroethics, neurolaw, ethics, philosophy of tort and criminal law, and political philosophy. For example, she wrote and delivered talks on such topics as the different meanings of the term "responsibility", the compatibility of responsibility and determinism, medical interventions to make criminal offenders competent for execution, how neuroscience and behavioural genetics fit into criminal responsibility adjudication procedures, tort liability for failure to use cognitive enhancement medications, whether people who live unhealthy lifestyles should have de-prioritised access to public health care resources and to organ transplants, and whether neuroscience can help us lead happier lives.

Her more recent work addresses topics in the philosophy of technology, ethics of emerging technologies, digital transformation, feminism, gender studies, and bioethics. For example, she has written and delivered talks about conscientious objection, transgender-related public policy, depictions of transhumanism and posthumanism in film, gendered cyberhate and cybercrime, and design and regulation of emerging technologies - in particular, gene editing, blockchain, and autonomous vehicles.