Human Enhancement

  • Read more: Harvard Effective Altruism: Nick Bostrom, September 4 at 8 PM
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    Harvard Effective Altruism: Nick Bostrom, September 4 at 8 PM

    [This message is from the students at Harvard Effective Altruism.] Welcome back to school, altruists! I’m happy to announce our first talk of the semester – from philosopher Nick Bostrom. See you there! Harvard College Effective Altruism presents: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies with Nick Bostrom Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University What…

  • Read more: Special issue in the Journal of Philosophy & Technology on evolution, genetic engineering, and human enhancement
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    Special issue in the Journal of Philosophy & Technology on evolution, genetic engineering, and human enhancement

    By Yu-Chi Lyra Kuo A special issue published this month by the Journal of Philosophy & Technology features a collection of articles discussing evolution, genetic engineering, and human enhancement. Recent years have seen a rapidly expanding variety of approaches to exploring the normativity of human enhancement, by philosophers, bioethicists, physicians, and biologists. The articles in…