December 9, 2015
NanoEthics (vol. 9, no. 3, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Analyses of Acceptability Judgments Made Toward the Use of Nanocarrier-Based Targeted Drug Deliver: Interviews with Researchers and Research Trainees in the Field of New Technologies” by Vanessa … Read More
December 3, 2015
(Medical Daily) – Humans have been trying to cheat death for centuries. But while this may have seemed like an impossible pipe dream, the evolution of technology is making it all the more possible that it’s only a matter of … Read More
November 20, 2015
(Yahoo! News) – Will men be able to give birth sooner than, well, never? That’s the question provoked by last week’s announcement that the Cleveland Clinic is performing uterus transplant surgery on women who were born without a womb or … Read More
November 16, 2015
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 40, no. 6, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Taming Our Brave New World” by Joshua A. Reagan “Surrogate Motherhood: A Trust-Based Approach” by Katharina Beier “Procreative Beneficence, Intelligence, and the … Read More
November 2, 2015
(Pacific Standard) – Richard Brautigan’s 1967 poem “Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” has the hopeful, reverential tone of a prayer. What Brautigan longs for in the poem is a utopia without work, where humans are “joined back to … Read More
October 15, 2015
(BBC) – Earlier this year, a two-year-old Thai girl became the youngest person to be cryogenically frozen, preserving her brain moments after death in the hope that she will one day be brought back to life. The BBC’s Jonathan Head … Read More
October 14, 2015
(New York Times) – I am a theoretical neuroscientist. I study models of brain circuits, precisely the sort of models that would be needed to try to reconstruct or emulate a functioning brain from a detailed knowledge of its structure. … Read More
September 21, 2015
(BBC) – Zoltan Istvan is running for US president. He’s the leader of the Transhumanist Party, which is campaigning to develop technology that would help us to live forever. That is also why he is driving round the US in … Read More
September 15, 2015
(BBC) – As technology advances, a group of people known as transhumanists are increasingly seeking ways to enable us to live on in new forms. How plausible are their ideas? “We have this strange idea that dying is something we … Read More
June 15, 2015
The New Bioethics (vol. 21, no. 1, 2015) is now available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The subject of enhancement: Augmented capacities, extended cognition, and delicate ecologies of the mind” by Darian Meacham “‘Just a bit of fun’: How … Read More
May 26, 2015
(The Telegraph) – Wealthy humans are likely become cyborgs within 200 years as they gradually merge with technology like computers and smart phones, a historian has claimed. Yuval Noah Harari, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said the … Read More
May 15, 2015
Dialog (vol. 54, no. 1, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The boundaries of human nature” by Ted Peters “Beyond the boundaries of current human nature: Some theological and ethical reflections on transhumanism” by James M. Childs Jr. … Read More
May 8, 2015
Theology Today (Vol. 72, no. 1, 2015) is now available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Bodies, selves, and human identity: A conversation between Transhumanism and the Apostle Paul” by Steven John Kraftchick
March 10, 2015
(ABC.net) – Our knowledge of human biology – in particular of genetics and neurobiology – is beginning to enable us to directly affect the biological or physiological bases of human motivation, either through drugs, or through genetic selection or engineering, … Read More
February 6, 2015
World Future Review (Vol. 6, No. 3, September 2014) is now available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Boundaries of the Human: From Humanism to Transhumanism” by José Cordeiro “What is Future Human Evolution About?” by Ted Chu “Human and Robots Interaction: … Read More
January 12, 2015
NanoEthics (Volume 8, Issue 3, December 2014) is now available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Ethical issues in cyborg technology: diversity and inclusion” by Enno Park ‘Human Enhancement’? It’s all about ‘body modification’! Why we should replace the term ‘human … Read More
December 25, 2014
Neuroethics (Volume 7, No. 3, December 2014) is now available online by subscription only. Articles include: “What to Enhance: Behaviour, Emotion or Disposition?” by Karim Jebari “Defining Moral Enhancement: A Clarificatory Taxonomy” by Kasper Raus, et al “Moral Enhancement and Self Subversion … Read More
November 26, 2014
(Phys.org) – What do pacemakers, prosthetic limbs, Iron Man and flu vaccines all have in common? They are examples of an old idea that’s been gaining in significance in the last several decades: transhumanism. The word denotes a set of … Read More
November 12, 2014
(Vox) – Scientists have been making amazing advances in bionic technology in recent years: robotic exoskeletons that help people walk, artificial eyes that help blind people see. Some of these technologies are meant as medical aids to help people regain function. … Read More
November 12, 2014
(National Journal) – Super strong mechanical appendages and brain implants are common fixtures of a science-fictional future. More and more, American veterans are arriving at that future before the rest of us. As a result of military-funded programs, vets are … Read More
November 7, 2014
The Journal for Medical Ethics (Vol. 40, No. 11, November 2014) is now available online by subscription only. Articles include: “In vitro eugenics” by Robert Sparrow “Some doubts about in vitro eugenics as a human enhancement technology” by Andrew W. Siegel … Read More
November 6, 2014
Bioethics (Vol. 28, No. 9, November 2014) is now available online by subscription only. Articles include: “When Intuition is Not Enough. Why the Principle of Procreative Beneficence Must Work Much Harder to Justify Its Eugenic Vision” by Rebecca Bennett “Reciprocity-Based Reasons … Read More
October 29, 2014
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (Volume 39, No. 5, October 2014) is now available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Flouting the demands of justice? physician participation in executions” by Adam Kadlac “Love as a regulative ideal in surrogate decision making” … Read More
October 23, 2014
(Business Insider) – Modern science fiction fans are not the only ones enthralled by the prospect of intelligent machines; the idea of intelligent robots has been a part of human culture since ancient times, going back to Greek mythology, and … Read More
October 21, 2014
(The Telegraph) – A growing cadre of innovators is taking things further, using replacement organs, robotic prosthetics and implants not to restore bodily functions but to alter or enhance them. When he lost his right eye in a shotgun accident … Read More
