Dialogues on Human Enhancement

We face an emerging range of technologies that can be applied to our human natures with the goal of enhancing us. These fictional dialogues between a proponent, opponent, moderate, and supervising philosopher explore the issues that arise.

Nicholas Agar is Professor of Ethics at the University of Waikato in Aotearoa, New Zealand. He has written extensively on the philosophical debate about human enhancement including three books on the topic - Liberal Eugenics (2004), Humanity's End (2010), and Truly Human Enhancement (2013).

Night 1: What should we say about gene-edited twins who may have been enhanced? Night 2: Enhancement technologies, doping athletes, and the meaning of human enhancement Night 3: From Francis Galton's eugenics to liberal eugenics Night 4: Radical versus moderate enhancement and cognition Night 5: SENS and radical life extension Night 6: Enhanced moods and morality Night 7: How do we decide which aspects of human nature to preserve? Night 8: A species relativist rejection of radical enhancement Night 9: Three contrasting nightmares about the Age of Human Enhancement