Professor & Department Chair
Contact Information
364 Savery Hall
Office Hours
by zoom and by appointment; email me to set up a time
Biography
Ph.D. from University of Colorado, Boulder, 1998
Curriculum Vitae
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Sara Goering is Professor of Philosophy, Core Faculty for the Program on Ethics, and the Disability Studies Program. She is adjunct in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities. She co-leads the UW neuroethics research group and is affiliated with the UW Center for Neurotechnology. She's currently co-PI on an NIH R01 grant in neuroethics focused on Caring for BRAIN Pioneers (R01MH130457). She teaches courses in bioethics, ethics, philosophy of disability, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of medicine.
Research
Selected Research
- Eran Klein and Sara Goering "Can I hold that thought for you? Dementia and shared relational agency" Hastings Center Report 5: 17-29.
- Jones, Nic R., Debi Talukdar, and Sara Goering. 2022. “Can Pre-College Philosophy Help Academic Philosophy’s Diversity Problem?: Reflecting on What Diverse Philosophers Say about Early Exposure to Philosophy.” Precollege Philosophy and Public Practice 4: 5-31. https://doi.org/10.5840/p4202241323.
- Goering and Klein (2020) “Fostering Neuroethics Integration with Neuroscience in the BRAIN Initiative: Comments on the NIH Neuroethics Roadmap (2020)” AJOB Neuroethics 11:3, 184-188, https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2020.1778120
- Goering, S. and Klein, K. (2020) "Embedding Ethics in Neural Engineering: An Integrated Transdisciplinary Collaboration" in A Guide to Field Philosophy: Case Studies and Practical Strategies (eds. Brister and Frodeman), pp. 17-34, Routledge.
- Goering, Sara and Eran Klein. "Embedding Ethics in Neural Engineering: An Integrated Transdisciplinary Collaboration.” In Philosophy for the Real World: An Introduction to Field Philosophy with Case Studies and Practical Strategies, edited by Evelyn Brister and Robert Frodeman. Routledge, (forthcoming).
- Goering, Sara, and Eran Klein. "Neurotechnologies and Justice by, with, and for Disabled People." In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190622879.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190622879-e-33.
- Pham, Michelle, Sara Goering, Matthew Sample, Jane E. Huggins, and Eran Klein.“Asilomar Survey: Researcher Perspectives on Ethical Principles and Guidelines for BCI Research.” Brain-Computer Interfaces 5 (2018): 1-15. DOI: 10.1080/2326263X.2018.1530010
- Goering, Sara. “Thinking Differently: Neurodiversity and Neural Engineering.” In The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics, edited by L. Syd M. Johnson and Karen S. Rommelfanger, 37-50. New York: Routledge, 2017.
- Specker Sullivan, Laura, Eran Klein, Tim Brown, Matthew Sample, Michelle Pham, Paul Tubig, Raney Folland, Anjali Truitt, and Sara Goering. “Keeping Disability in Mind: A Case Study in Implantable Brain-Computer Interface Research.” Science and Engineering Ethics published online June 2017; DOI 10.1007/s11948-017-9928-9
- Goering, Sara, Eran Klein, Darin Dougherty, and Alik Widge. “Staying in the Loop: Relational Agency and Identity in Next Generation DBS for Psychiatry.” AJOB Neuroscience 8.2 (2017): 59-70.
- Brown, Timothy, Patrick Moore, Jeffrey Herron, Margaret Thompson, Tamara Bonaci, Howard Chizeck, and Sara Goering. "Personal Responsibility in the Age of User-controlled Neuroprosthetics." in the proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science and Technology (ETHICS), pp. 1-12. IEEE, 2016.
- Brown, Timothy, Margaret C Thompson, Jeffrey Herron, Andrew Ko, Howard Chizeck, and Sara Goering. “Controlling Our Brains – a Case Study on the Implications of Brain-Computer Interface-Triggered Deep Brain Stimulation for Essential Tremor.” Brain-Computer Interfaces, September 14, 2016: 1–6.
- Klein, Eran, Sara Goering, Josh Gagne, Conor V. Shea, Rachel Franklin, Samuel Zorowitz, Darin D. Dougherty, and Alik S. Widge. “Brain-Computer Interface-Based Control of Closed-Loop Brain Stimulation: Attitudes and Ethical Considerations.” Brain-Computer Interfaces 3, no. 3 (2016): 1–9.
- Goering, Sara, Eran Klein, Timothy Brown, Matthew Sample, and Anjali Truitt, “Engineering the Brain: Ethical Issues and the Introduction of Neural Devices.” Hastings Center Report 45, no. 6 (2015): 26-35.
- Goering, Sara, "Eugenics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2014/entries/eugenics/
- Goering, Sara, Shudak, Nicholas, and Wartenberg, Thomas, eds. Philosophy in Schools: An Introduction for Philosophers and Teachers. New York: Routledge, 2013.
- Goering, Sara. “Postnatal Reproductive Autonomy: Promoting Relational Autonomy and Self-Trust in New Parents.” Bioethics 23.1 (2009): 9-19.
- Goering, Sara, Holland, Suzanne, and Fryer-Edwards, Kelly. “Transforming Genetic Research Practices with Marginalized Communities: A Case for Responsive Justice.” Hastings Center Report 38.2 (2008): 43-53.
- Goering, Sara. “’You say you’re happy, but…’: Contested Quality of Life Judgments in Bioethics and Disability Studies.” Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 5 (2008): 125-135.
Courses Taught
Spring 2025
Autumn 2024
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Autumn 2023
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
Autumn 2020
Spring 2020
Winter 2020
Affiliations
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- Letter from the Chair (November 9, 2022)
- Neuroethics Research Group receives NIH grant (November 9, 2022)
- Faculty Summer Reading Recommendations 2022 (June 29, 2022)
- Faculty Summer Reading Recommendations 2021 (June 14, 2021)
- Awards Ceremony 2021 (June 2, 2021)
- Sara Goering Discusses the Need for Neuro Privacy Rights (June 2, 2021)
- A Network of Two (May 19, 2021)
- UW neuroethics team co-authored paper in Neuroethics journal (May 6, 2021)
- The ethics of augmenting your brain and body (January 26, 2021)
- Faculty Summer Reading Recommendations 2020 (June 25, 2020)
- UW Neuroethics team members win numerous awards at 2019 International Neuroethics Society meeting (November 19, 2019)
- Neuroethics group celebrates summer 2019 undergraduate research program (August 23, 2019)
- Faculty Summer Reading Recommendations 2019 (July 14, 2019)
- UW-led philosophy team receives $1.5M grant to study the ethics of neurotechnology research (November 29, 2018)
- Gerler Symposium on Race & Equity in Philosophy for Children [with videos] (June 27, 2018)
- Faculty Summer Reading Recommendations 2018 (June 26, 2018)
- Register for the Gerler Symposium on Race & Equity in Philosophy for Children (April 23, 2018)
- Ethics & Policy: 200 Days into the Trump Administration Workshop (September 18, 2017)
- Ethics as a cornerstone of neural engineering research (June 20, 2017)
- Benjamin Rabinowitz Symposium in Medical Ethics on Race, Health & Justice (April 27, 2017)
- Recognizing and Combating Racism and Sexism - #philosophyresponds: Conversations After the Election (March 9, 2017)
- Hate Speech and Slurs - #philosophyresponds: Conversations After the Election (January 30, 2017)
- #philosophy responds: Conversations After the Election (January 17, 2017)
- Navigating the Ethics of Neuroscience (August 5, 2016)
- Spring Philosophy Symposiums and Workshop (July 18, 2016)
- "Stimulating the Self: Neurotechnology, Identity, and Agency" Symposium in Neuroethics (April 6, 2016)
- UW Philosophers Talk About the Migration Crisis (December 15, 2015)
- UW Philosophers Talk about the Migration Crisis - Health - Carina Fourie and Sara Goering (December 3, 2015)
- Short film "Philosophical Children" showcases UW Center for Philosophy for Children (August 19, 2015)
- Is Mind Control Ethical? Ask Professor Sara Goering. (May 14, 2014)
- Awards and Achievements 2012 (April 1, 2014)
- Newsletter Fall 2011 Awards and Achievements Faculty (March 31, 2014)
- Newsletter Fall 2011 Philosophy for Children (March 27, 2014)
- Newsletter Fall 2010 Rabinowitz Symposium (March 27, 2014)
- Newsletter Fall 2010 Bioethics and American Medicine (March 27, 2014)
- Newsletter Winter 2012 Rabinowitz Symposium (March 13, 2014)
- Philosophy for Children Updates Spring 2012 (March 6, 2014)
- Neuroethics Project at UW (October 21, 2013)
- Sara Goering Answers Ethical Questions relating to Brain Technology on KUOW (October 4, 2013)