Brian Earp

{{Short description|American academic}}

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{{Infobox writer

| name = Brian David Earp

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| occupation = Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Bioethicist

| notable_works = Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships

| website = {{URL|https://www.brianearp.com/}}

| honorific_prefix = Dr

| education = Yale University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge{{cite web|title=Brian D. Earp|author=National University of Singapore (NUS) Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE)|url=https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/cbme/people_uri/brian-d-earp/|access-date=22 October 2024}}

| birth_date = 1985

| awards = 2020 commendation, by the John Maddox Prize judges{{cite web|title=Anthony Fauci and Salim Abdool Karim jointly awarded John Maddox Prize 2020 for standing up for science during the coronavirus pandemic|author=CAPRISA|date=14 December 2020|url=https://www.caprisa.org/NewsAndEvents/Read/10505|access-date=22 October 2024}}{{cite web|title=Maddox Prize 2020|author=Sense about Science|url=https://senseaboutscience.org/activities/maddox-prize-2020/|access-date=22 October 2024}}

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Brian David Earp is an American bioethicist, philosopher, and interdisciplinary researcher. He is probably best known for his writings on bodily autonomy and integrity, the involuntary non-therapeutic (medically unnecessary) genital cutting of children and drug use in the United States. He is Director of the Oxford-National University of Singapore (NUS) Centre for Neuroethics and Society and the EARP Lab (Experimental Bioethics, Artificial Intelligence, and Relational Moral Psychology) within the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Earp is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and of Psychology at NUS by courtesy. He is Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center. He is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He is an elected member of the UK Young Academy under the auspices of the British Academy and the Royal Society.

Earp has written on a wide range of topics, including free will,{{cite journal | journal=PsyArXiv | doi=10.31234/osf.io/3bxra | title=Determined to be Humble? Exploring the Relationship Between Belief in Free Will and Humility | last1=Earp | first1=Brian D. | last2=Everett | first2=Jim Albert Charlton | last3=Crone | first3=Damien | last4=Nadelhoffer | first4=Thomas | last5=Caruso | first5=Gregg D. | last6=Shariff | first6=Azim | last7=Sinnott-Armstrong | first7=Walter }} sex and gender{{Cite journal |last=Earp |first=Brian D. |date=2020 |title=What is gender for? |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340598169 |journal=The Philosopher |volume=108 |issue=2 |pages=94–99 |via=ResearchGate}} and the replication crisis in psychology{{Cite journal|last1=Earp|first1=Brian D.|last2=Trafimow|first2=David|date=2015|title=Replication, falsification, and the crisis of confidence in social psychology|journal=Frontiers in Psychology|language=English|volume=6|page=621|doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00621|pmid=26042061|pmc=4436798|issn=1664-1078|doi-access=free}} He has also worked on relational moral psychology, human enhancement, philosophy of love and children’s rights. Brian helped to establish "experimental philosophical bioethics" (bioXphi) as an area of research. He currently writes the quarterly "Philosophy in the Real World" column for The Philosopher. In 2019, Earp wrote his first book (co-written with Julian Savulescu), published in the UK as Love Is the Drug: The Chemical Future of Our Relationships{{Cite web|title=Manchester University Press - Love is the Drug|url=https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526145413|access-date=2020-12-07|website=Manchester University Press|language=en-US}} and in the United States as Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships).{{Cite book |last1=Earp |first1=Brian David |url=http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27130 |title=Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships |last2=Savulescu |first2=Julian |publisher=Redwood Press |year=2020 |isbn=9780804798198 |language=en |access-date=2020-12-07}}{{Cite web|last=Greenberg|first=Jon|date=April 18, 2016|title=HIV In Africa: 6 Million Circumcisions And Counting|url=https://www.politifact.com/article/2016/apr/18/hiv-africa-6-million-circumcisions-and-counting/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028211259/https://www.politifact.com/article/2016/apr/18/hiv-africa-6-million-circumcisions-and-counting/ |archive-date=2020-10-28 |access-date=2020-10-25|website=Politifact|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=Zublin|first=Fiona|date=2020-01-05|title=Love in the Roaring '20s|url=https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/love-in-the-roaring-20s/258144/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200106153840/https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/love-in-the-roaring-20s/258144/ |archive-date=2020-01-06 |access-date=2020-10-25|website=OZY}}{{Cite web|last=Shane|first=Cari|date=2019-12-12|title=Can We Replace Couples Therapy With Real-Life Love Potions?|url=https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/can-we-replace-couples-therapy-with-real-life-love-potions/251775/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213140134/https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/can-we-replace-couples-therapy-with-real-life-love-potions/251775/ |archive-date=2019-12-13 |access-date=2020-10-25|website=OZY}}{{Cite web|last=Szalavitz|first=Maia|date=2014-05-19|title=Is It Possible to Create an Anti-Love Drug?|url=https://www.thecut.com/2014/05/anti-love-drugs-will-change-how-we-end-romances.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417053306/https://www.thecut.com/2014/05/anti-love-drugs-will-change-how-we-end-romances.html |archive-date=2018-04-17 |access-date=2020-10-29|website=The Cut|language=en-us}}

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