Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Sparrow, R., Andrejevic, M., and Harris, B. 2023. Should we embrace “Big Sister”? Smart speakers as a means to combat intimate partner violence. Ethics and Information Technology. Published online 4 November 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-023-09727-5

Sparrow, R. 2023. Friendly AI will still be our master. Or, why we shouldn’t want to be the pets of super-intelligent machines. AI & Society: Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication. Published online 3 June 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01698-x

Sparrow, R. 2023. Technology Ethics Assessment: Politicising the “Socratic Approach”. Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility 32(2): 454-466. https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12518.

Hatherley, J., and Sparrow, R. 2023. Diachronic and synchronic variation in the performance of adaptive machine learning systems: the ethical challenges. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 30(2): 361–366. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocac218.

Sparrow, R., and Henschke, A. 2023. Minotaurs, not centaurs: The future of manned-unmanned teaming. Parameters 53(1): Article no. 14. https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol53/iss1/14.

Sparrow, R. 2022. Masturbation, deception, and rape. Journal of Applied Philosophy. Published Online, 15 June 2022. DOI: 10.1111/japp.12594.

Hatherley, J., Sparrow, R., and Howard, M. 2022. The virtues of interpretable medical artificial intelligence. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 1-10. Published online by Cambridge University Press, 16 December 2022. doi:10.1017/S0963180122000305.

Sparrow, R., Howard, M. and Degeling, C. 2021. Managing the risks of artificial intelligence in agriculture. NJAS: Impact in Agricultural and Life Sciences 93(1): 172-196. Published online: 24 Feb 2022. DOI: 10.1080/27685241.2021.2008777.  

Sparrow, R., and Mills, C. 2021. Genome editing: From Bioethics to Biopolitics. Biosocieties. Online First, 6 May 2021. DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00229-5.

Sparrow, R., Mills, C, and Carroll, J. 2021. Gendering the seed: Mitochondrial replacement techniques and the erasure of the maternal. Bioethics. Published Online: 5 May 2021. DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12868.

Sparrow, R. 2021. Human germline genome editing: On the nature of our reasons to genome edit. American Journal of Bioethics. Online First, 19 Apr 2021. DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2021.1907480.

Sparrow, R. 2021. Why machines cannot be moral. AI & Society: Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication. Published Online: 21 January, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-01132-6.

Sparrow, R. and Howard, M. 2020. Robots in Agriculture: Prospects, impacts, ethics, and policy. Precision Agriculture. Online First, 24 October, 2020. DOI:10.1007/s11119-020-09757-9.

Sparrow, R. and Howard, M. 2020. Make way for the wealthy? Autonomous vehicles, markets in mobility, and social justice. Mobilities. Published Online: 10 April, 2020. DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1739832. 

Sparrow, R. 2020. Virtue and vice in our relationships with robots: Is there an asymmetry and how might it be explained? International Journal of Social Robotics. Published Online: 22 February: DOI: 10.1007/s12369-020-00631-2.

Sparrow, R. and Hatherley, J. 2020. High hopes for ‘Deep Medicine’? AI, economics, and the future of care. Hastings Center Report 50(1): 14-17. DOI: 10.1002/hast.1079.

Sparrow, R. and Karas, L. 2020. Teledildonics and rape by deception. Law, Innovation, and Technology DOI: 10.1080/17579961.2020.1727097.

Sparrow, R. and Hatherley, J. 2019. The promise and perils of AI in medicine. International Journal of Chinese and Comparative Philosophy of Medicine 17(2): 79-109.

Sparrow, R. 2019. Do robots have race? Race, Social Construction, and HRI. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. Early access 29 October, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2019.2927372.

Sparrow, R. 2019. Robotics has a race problem. Science, Technology, & Human Values. Published online July 28 2019, as doi: 10.1177/0162243919862862.

Sparrow, R. 2019. Yesterday’s child: How gene editing for enhancement will produce obsolescence – and why it matters. American Journal of Bioethics 19(7): 6-15. DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2019.1618943.

Sparrow, R., McLaughlin, R., and Howard, M. 2019. Naval robots and rescue. International Review of the Red Cross Published online: 13 February 2019, as doi:10.1017/S181638311800067X.

Sparrow, R., Harrison, R., Oakley, J., and Keogh, B. 2018. Playing for fun, training for war: Can popular claims about recreational video gaming and military simulations be reconciled? Games and Culture 13(2): 174-192. Published Online First, November 26, 2015, as doi: 10.1177/1555412015615025.

Hutchison, K. and Sparrow, R. 2018. Ethics and the cardiac pacemaker: More than just end-of-life issues. EP Europace 20(5): 739–746, 1 May 2018. Published Online First, April 6, 2017, as doi:10.1093/europace/eux019.

Sparrow, R. and Howard, M. 2017. When human beings are like drunk robots: driverless vehicles, ethics, and the future of transport. Transportation Research Part C. 80: 206-215. Published Online First, May 9, 2017, as doi: 10.1016/j.trc.2017.04.014.

Sparrow, R. 2017. Robots, rape, and representation. International Journal of Social Robotics 9(4): 465-477. Published Online First, June 1, 2017, as doi: 10.1007/s12369-017-0413-z.

Sparrow, R. 2017. Moral bioenhancement worthy of the name. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 26 (3): 411-414. Published Online First, May 25, 2017, as doi: 10.1017/S0963180116001079.

Sparrow, R. and Lucas, G. Jr. 2016. When robots rule the waves? Naval War College Review 69(4): 49-78.

Hutchison, K. and Sparrow, R. 2016. What pacemakers can teach us about the ethics of maintaining artificial organs. Hastings Center Report 46 (6): 14-24. DOI: 10.1002/hast.644.

Sparrow, R. 2016. Robots and respect: Assessing the case against Autonomous Weapon Systems. Ethics and International Affairs 30(1): 93-116. doi:10.1017/S0892679415000647.

Sparrow, R. 2016. Robots in aged care: A dystopian future? AI and Society 31(4): 445-454. Published Online First, November 10, 2015, as doi: 10.1007/s00146-015-0625-4.

Sparrow, R. 2016. If people were movies? Free speech and free association. The Journal of Political Philosophy 24(2): 227–244. Published Online First, November 6, 2015, as doi: 10.1111/jopp.12084.

Sparrow, R. 2015. Twenty seconds to comply: Autonomous Weapon Systems and the recognition of surrender. International Law Studies 91: 699-728.

Sparrow, R. 2015. Imposing genetic diversity. American Journal of Bioethics 15(6): 2–10. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2015.1028658.

Sparrow, R. 2015. Martial and moral courage in tele-operated warfare: A commentary on Kirkpatrick. The Journal of Military Ethics 14(3-4): 220-227.

Sparrow, R. 2015. Enhancement and obsolescence: Avoiding an “enhanced rat race”. The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 25(3): 231–260, September.

Sparrow, R. 2014. Reproductive technologies, risk, enhancement, and the value of genetic relatedness. Journal of Medical Ethics 40: 741-743. Published Online First, March 6, 2014, as doi: 10.1136/medethics-2013-101807.

Sparrow, R. 2014. Egalitarianism and moral bioenhancement. American Journal of Bioethics 14(4): 20-28.

Sparrow, R. 2014 Better living through chemistry? A reply to Savulescu and Persson on “moral enhancement”. Journal of Applied Philosophy 31(1): 23–32.Published Online First, August 27, 2013 as doi: 10.1111/japp.12038.

Sparrow, R. 2014. In vitro eugenics. Journal of Medical Ethics 40(11): 725-731. Published Online First, April 4, 2013. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2012-101200.

Sparrow, R. 2014. Sexism and human enhancement. Journal of Medical Ethics 39(12): 732-735. Published Online First, August 23, 2013 as doi: 10.1136/medethics-2012-101143.

Sparrow, R. 2013. Gender eugenics? The ethics of PGD for intersex conditions. American Journal of Bioethics 13(10): 29-38. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2013.828115.

Savulescu, J. and Sparrow, R. 2013. Making better babies: Pros and cons. Monash Bioethics Review 31(1): 36-59.

Sparrow, R. 2013. Queerin’ the PGD clinic: human enhancement and the future of bodily diversity. Journal of Medical Humanities 34(2): 177-196. Published Online First, March 10, 2013. doi: 10.1007/s10912-013-9223-y.

Sparrow, R. 2013. The perils of post-persons. Journal of Medical Ethics 39: 80-81.Published Online First, November 5, 2012. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2012-100834.

Sparrow, R. 2012. A child’s right to a decent future? Regulating human genetic enhancement in multicultural societies. Asian Bioethics Review 4(4): 355–373.

Sparrow, R. 2012. Human enhancement and sexual dimorphism. Bioethics 26(9): 464–475. Published Online First, 2011. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2011.01884.x.

Sparrow, R. 2012. Orphaned at conception: The uncanny offspring of embryos. Bioethics 26(4): 173–181, May. Published Online First, 2010. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2010.01848.x

Sparrow, R. 2012. The dead donor rule and means-end reasoning: A reply to Napier. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 21(1): 141-146, January.

Sparrow, R. 2012. ‘Just say no’ to drones. IEEE Technology and Society 31(1): 56-63. doi: 10.1109/MTS.2012.2185275.

Sparrow, R. 2011. Liberalism and eugenics. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89(3): 499-517. Published Online First, 17 May 2010. doi: 10.1080/00048402.2010.484464.

Sparrow, R. 2011. Fear of a female planet: How John Harris came to endorse eugenic social engineering. Journal of Medical Ethics 38: 4-7. doi: 10.1136/jme.2011.045021.

Sparrow, R. 2011. Harris, harmed states, and sexed bodies. Journal of Medical Ethics 37(5): 276-279. doi: 10.1136/jme.2010.039982.

Sparrow, R. 2011. A not-so-new eugenics: Harris and Savulescu on human enhancement. Hastings Center Report  41(1): 32-42.

Sparrow, R. 2010. Better than men? Sex and the therapy/enhancement distinction. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 20(2): 115-144.

Sparrow, R. 2010. Should human beings have sex? Sexual dimorphism and human enhancement. American Journal of Bioethics 10(7): 3-12. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2010.489409.

Sparrow, R. 2010. Implants and ethnocide: Learning from the cochlear implant controversy. Disability and Society 25(4): 455-466. Published Online First, doi: 10.1080/09687591003755849.

Sparrow, R. and Cram, D. 2010. Saviour embryos? Preimplantation genetic diagnosis as a therapeutic technology. Reproductive BioMedicine Online. 20(5): 667-674. doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2009.12.015

Sparrow, R., and Gardiner, D. 2010. Not dead yet: Controlled non-heart beating organ donation, consent, and the dead donor rule. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 19(1): 17-26, January.

Sparrow, R. 2009. Xenotransplantation, consent, and international justice. Developing World Bioethics 9(3): 119-27, December.

Sparrow, R. 2009. Therapeutic cloning and reproductive liberty. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 34(2): 102-18, April.

Sparrow, R. 2009. The social impacts of nanotechnology: an ethical and political analysis. The Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 6(1): 13-23, January.

Sparrow, R. 2009. Predators or plowshares? Arms control of robotic weapons. IEEE Technology and Society 28(1): 25-29, Spring.

Sparrow, R. 2009. Building a better warbot: Ethical issues in the design of unmanned systems for military applications. Science and Engineering Ethics 15(2): 169–187, June.

Sparrow, R. 2008. Talkin’ ’bout a (nanotechnological) revolution. IEEE Technology and Society 27(2): 37-43, June.

Sparrow, R. 2008. Is it ‘every man’s right to have babies if he wants them’? Male pregnancy and the limits of reproductive liberty. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 18(3): 275–299, September.

Sparrow, R., and Russell, W. 2008. The case for regulating intragenic GMOs. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21(2): 153-181, April.

Sparrow, R. 2007. Procreative beneficence, obligation, and eugenics. Genomics, Society and Policy 3(3): 43-59, December.

Sparrow, R. 2007. Revolutionary and familiar, inevitable and precarious: Rhetorical contradictions in enthusiasm for nanotechnology. NanoEthics 1(1): 57-68, March.

Sparrow, R. 2007. Killer robots. Journal of Applied Philosophy 24(1): 62-77, March.

Sparrow, R., and Sparrow, L. 2006. In the hands of machines? The future of aged care. Minds and Machines 16: 141-161, May.

Sparrow, R. 2006. ‘Trust us… we’re doctors’: Science, media, and ethics in the Hwang stem cell controversy. Journal of Communication Research 43(1): 5-24.

Sparrow, R. 2006. Right of the living dead? Consent to experimental surgery in the event of cortical death. Journal of Medical Ethics 32(10): 601-605, October.

Sparrow, R. 2006. Cloning, parenthood, and genetic relatedness. Bioethics 20(6): 308-318.

Sparrow, R. 2005. ‘Hands up who wants to die?’: Primoratz on responsibility and civilian immunity in wartime. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 8(3): 299-319, June.

Sparrow, R. 2005. Defending Deaf Culture: The case of cochlear implants. The Journal of Political Philosophy 13(2): 135-152, June.

Sparrow, R. 2004. The Turing triage test. Ethics and Information Technology 6(4): 203-213.

Sparrow, R. 2002. The march of the robot dogs. Ethics and Information Technology 4(4): 305-318.

Sparrow, R. 2002. Talking sense about political correctness. Journal of Australian Studies 73: 119-133.

Sparrow, R., and Goodin, R. E. 2001. The competition of ideas: Market or garden? Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 4(2): 45-58.

Sparrow, R. 2000. History and collective responsibility. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 78(3): 346-359, September.

Sparrow, R. 1999. The ethics of terraforming. Environmental Ethics 21(3): 227-245.

Book Chapters

Sparrow, R. 2023. Human enhancement through the lens of sex selection. In Fabrice Jotterand and Marcello Ienca (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement. London: Routledge, 103-118. DOI: 10.4324/9781003105596-10.

Walker, M. and Sparrow, R. 2023. Being in the world: Extended minds and extended bodies. In Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs, Birgit Beck, and Orsolya Friedrich (eds.) Neuro-ProsthEthics. Ethical Implications of Applied Situated Cognition. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. Forthcoming, accepted November 16, 2022.

Sparrow, R. 2023. Killer Robots: Ethical Issues in the Design of Unmanned Systems for Military Applications. In: Valavanis, K.P., Vachtsevanos, G.J. (eds) Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32193-6_98-2 [republished paper].

Sparrow, R., Koplin, J., and Mills, C. 2023. Mitochondrial replacement techniques: A critical review of the ethical issues. In Diana Bowman, Karinne Ludlow, and Walter Johnson (eds.) Reproduction Reborn: How Science, Ethics and Law Shape Mitochondrial Replacement Therapies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 32-61.

Sparrow, R. 2022.  Genome editing, in time. In Neal Baer and Martha Montello (eds.) Reshaping Human Nature: The Promise and Peril of CRISPR. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Forthcoming, accepted February 10, 2022.

Sparrow, R., and Hatherley, J. 2022. “Derin Tıp” için Büyük Umutlar (mı)? Yapay Zekâ, Ekonomi ve Sağlık Hizmetinin Geleceği (In Turkish). In Eds. Tayyibe Bardakçı, M. İhsan Karaman, Yapay Zeka Etiği: Disiplinlerarası Bir Yaklaşım, İstanbul: İSAR Yayınları. (Translated and republished paper).

Sparrow, R. 2021.  How robots have politics. In Carissa Véliz (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Published online November 2021. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198857815.013.16.

Sparrow, R. 2021.  Riskless warfare revisited: Drones, asymmetry, and the just use of force. In Christian Enemark (ed.) Ethics of Drone Strikes: Restraining Remote-Control Killing. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 10-30.

Howard, M., and Sparrow, R. 2021. Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink: Sex robots as social influencers. In Ruiping Fan and Mark J. Cherry (eds.) Sex Robots: Their Social Impact and the Future of Human of Human Relations. Springer: Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82280-4_4.

Sparrow, R. 2019. Unravelling the human tapestry. Diversity, flourishing, and genetic modification? In Erik Parens and Josephine Johnston (eds.) Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming, accepted 20 August 2017).

Sparrow, R. and Lucas, G. Jr. 2018. When robots rule the waves? In John Jackson (ed.) One Nation Under Drones: Legality, Morality, and Utility of Unmanned Combat Systems. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 75-98 [republished paper].

Sparrow, R., and Sparrow, L. 2017. In the hands of machines? The future of aged care. In Arthur L. Caplan and Brendan Parent (eds.) The Ethical Challenges of Emerging Medical Technologies. Farnham, England: Ashgate [republished paper].

Sparrow, R. 2016. Human enhancement for whom? In Steve Clarke, Julian Savulescu, C. A. J. Coady, Alberto Giubilini, and Sagar Sanyal (eds.) The Ethics of Human Enhancement: Understanding the Debate. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 127-142.

Sparrow, R. 2016. Implants and ethnocide: Learning from the cochlear implant controversy. In Alan Roulstone, Alison Sheldon, and Jennifer Harris (eds.) Disability and Technology: Key Papers from Disability and Society. London: Routledge [republished paper].

Sparrow, R. 2016. The Turing triage test. In Wendell Wallach and Peter Mario Asaro (eds.) Machine Ethics and Robot Ethics. Farnham, England: Ashgate, forthcoming (solicited January 15, 2015) [republished paper].

Sparrow, R. 2016. Grappling with the universal protoplasm. In Julian Savulescu and Misao Fujita (eds.) Ethics for the Future of iPS/Stem Cells. Tokyo: The Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education, 55-74.

Sparrow, R. 2015. Drones, courage, and military culture. In George R. Lucas, Jr. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Military Ethics. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 380-394.

Sparrow, R. 2015. Killer robots: Ethical issues in the design of unmanned systems for military applications. In Kimon P. Valavanis and George J. Vachtsevanos (eds.) Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. New York: Springer Reference, 2965-2983 [republished paper].

Sparrow, R. 2015. Terraforming, vandalism and virtue ethics. In Jai Galliot (ed.) Commercial Space Exploration: Ethics, Policy, and Governance. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 161-178.

Sparrow, R. 2015. A not-so-new eugenics: Harris and Savulescu on human enhancement. In Thomas H. Murray and Voo Teck Chuan (eds.) The Ethics of Sports Technologies and Human Enhancement. Farnham, England: Ashgate, forthcoming (solicited April 23, 2015) [republished paper].

Sparrow, R. 2015. The Social Impacts of Nanotechnology: An Ethical and Political Analysis. In Andrew Maynard and Jack Stilgoe (eds.) The Ethics of Nanotechnology, Geoengineering, and Clean Energy. Farnham, England: Ashgate, forthcoming (solicited March 12, 2015) [republished paper].

Sparrow, R. 2014. Ethics, eugenics, and politics. In Akira Akayabashi (ed.) The Future of Bioethics: International Dialogues.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 139-153.

Sparrow, R. 2014. What we can – and can’t — learn about the ethics of enhancement by thinking about sport. In Akira Akayabashi (ed.) The Future of Bioethics: International Dialogues. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 218-223.

Sparrow, R. 2014. (Im)Moral technology? Thought experiments and the future of “mind control”. In Akira Akayabashi (ed.) The Future of Bioethics: International Dialogues. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 113-119.

Sparrow, R. 2014. The real force of “procreative beneficence”. In Akira Akayabashi (ed.) The Future of Bioethics: International Dialogues. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 183-192.

Simpson, R. and Sparrow, R. 2014. Nanotechnologically enhanced combat systems: The downside of invulnerability. In Bert Gordijn and Anthony Mark Cutter (eds.) In Pursuit of Nanoethics, The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology 10, doi 10.1007/978-1-4020-6817-1_2, Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media, 89-103.

Sparrow, R. 2013. War without virtue? In Bradley Jay Strawser (ed.) Killing By Remote Control. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 84-105.

Sparrow, R. 2012. Cloning, parenthood, and genetic relatedness. In Stephen Holland (ed.) Arguing About Bioethics. London and New York: Routledge, 163-175 [republished paper].

Sparrow, R. 2012. Can machines be people? Reflections on the Turing triage test. In Patrick Lin, Keith Abney, and George Bekey (eds.) Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 301-315.

Sparrow, R. 2011. Robotic weapons and the future of war. In Jessica Wolfendale and Paolo Tripodi (eds.) New Wars and New Soldiers: Military Ethics in the Contemporary World. Surrey, UK & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 117-133.

Sparrow, R. 2010. The ethical challenges of military robots. In Gerhard Dabringer (ed.) Ethical and Legal Aspects of Unmanned Systems: Interviews, Vienna, Austria: katholiches Militärseelsorge Österreich, 87-101.

Sparrow, R. 2010. The slippery nature of nano-enthusiasm. In Fern Wickson and Kamilla Kjolberg (eds.)Nano Meets Macro: Social Perspectives on Nanoscale Sciences and Technologies. Singapore: Pan Stanford Publishing, 123-138.

Sparrow, R. 2008. Genes, identity, and the expressivist critique. In Loane Skene and Janna Thompson (eds) The Sorting Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 111-132.

Sparrow, R. 2008. Killer robots. In Igor Primoratz and Tony Coady (eds.) Military Ethics. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 527-542. [republished paper].

Sparrow, R. 2008. Anarchism since 1992. In Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit and Thomas Pogge (ed.) Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, 2nd edn, Volume One, Oxford: Blackwell, 282-284.

Sparrow, R. 2008. For the union makes us strong: Anarchism and patriotism. In Alexander Pavlovic and Igor Primoratz (eds) Patriotism: Philosophical and Political Perspectives, Aldershot, UK & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 201-217.

Sparrow, R. 2007. Negotiating the nanodivides. In Graeme Hodge, Diana Bowman and Karinne Ludlow (eds.) New Global Frontiers in Regulation: The Age of Nanotechnology, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 87-107.

Sparrow, R. 2007. ‘Barbarians at the gates’: The moral costs of political community. In Igor Primoratz (ed.) Politics and Morality, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 170-188.

Sparrow, R. 2004. Censorship and freedom of speech. In Justin Healy (ed.) Censorship and Free Speech, Issues in Society Series, Vol. 207. Thirroul, NSW: The Spinney Press, 1-4.

Sparrow, R. 2001. Anarchist politics and direct action. In Timo Ahonen, Markus Termonen, Tuomas Tirkkonen and Ulla Vehaluoto (eds.) Väärin ajateltua: anarckistisia puheenvuoroja herruudettmmasta yhteiskunnasta, Kopijyvä, Jyväskykä: Kampus Kustannus, 163-175. Trans, in Finnish.

Reviews

Sparrow, R. 2014. Unfit for the future: The need for moral enhancement, by Persson, Ingmar, and Julian Savulescu. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92(2): 404-407. Published online: 20 Nov 2013. doi: 10.1080/00048402.2013.860180.

Sparrow, R. 2012. Book review: Beyond humanity? The ethics of biomedical enhancement, by Allen Buchanan. Journal of Applied Philosophy 29(2):160-162. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5930.2011.00551.x.

Editorials

Altmann, J., Asaro, P., Sharkey, N., and Sparrow, R.J. 2013. Armed military robots. Ethics and Information Technology 15 (2):73-76.

Encyclopedia Entries

Sparrow, R. 2019: Artificial Intelligence. In Hugh LaFollette (ed) International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons (forthcoming, accepted 1 February 2019).

Sparrow, R. 2014. Drones. In Carl Mitcham (ed.) Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, Second Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA (forthcoming).

Sparrow, R. 2014. Androids. In Carl Mitcham (ed.) Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, Second Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA (forthcoming).

Sparrow, R. 2014. Robots. In Carl Mitcham (ed.) Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, Second Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, (forthcoming).

Sparrow, R. 2013. Political correctness. In Hugh LaFollette (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Ethics.  Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons. Published Online, 1 Feb 2013, doi: 10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee589

Sparrow, R. 2013. Genetic enhancement technologies. In Stanley Maloy and Kelly Hughes (eds.) Brenner’s Encyclopedia of Genetics, Second Edition. Oxford: Academic Press.

Sparrow, R. 2013. Anarchism. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online (in progress)

Sparrow, R. 2005. Androids. In Carl Mitcham (ed.) Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 68-69.

Sparrow, R. 2005. Robots. In Carl Mitcham (ed.) Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 1654-1656.

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

Bartneck, C., Yogeeswaran, K., Ser, Q. M, Woodward, G., Sparrow, R., Wang, S. and Eyssel, F. 2018. Robots and Racism. In Proceedings of 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3171221.3171260.

Sparrow, R. 2002. Liberal freedoms and cultural goods. Proceedings of the 2002 Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics Conference. Brisbane, Australia.

Correspondence

Sparrow, R. 2010. Why bioethicists still need to think more about sex … . American Journal of Bioethics 10 (7): W1-W3. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2010.489410

Papers in Conference Proceedings

Sparrow, R. 2002. Culture and choice: Two models of culture in the cochlear implant debate, Proceedings of the 2nd Victorian State Deaf Conference, Different Views…One vision. May the 4th and 5th, Melbourne, Victorian Council of Deaf People, 51-72.

Sparrow, R. 2001. Artificial intelligences, embodiment and the ‘Turing triage test’. In Ruth F. Chadwick, Lucas Introna and Antonio Marturano (eds.) Proceedings of the Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry 2001 Conference: IT and the Body, 14-16 December, Lancaster University, Lancaster, U.K., 222-235.

Better off Deaf? Res Publica 11(1): 11-16.