Enhancing the disadvantaged
A new edition of the American Journal of Bioethics explores the possibility of remedying social disadvantage through cognitive enhancement. A new edition of the American...
Washington Post features symposium on transhumanism
Is the movement becoming mainstream?As a sign of growing interest in transhumanism, the Washington Post recently featured a symposium with several distinguished writers. It may...
Taking moral bioenhancement seriously
Oxford’s utilitarian bioethicist Julian Savulescu, with others, has proposed what they call moral bioenhancement – achieving moral outcomes with the help of drugs, genetic engineering...
Jimmy Savile meets bioethics
As details continue to emerge of Jimmy Savile’s horrific crimes, a bioethicist is questioning the complicity of healthcare workers in allowing for the abuses. As...
Is moral bioehancement even possible?
A new article in Bioethics criticises the moral bioenhancement debate as misguided and framed on gratuitous assumptions. The authors – Inmaculada de Melo-Martin (Cornell) and...
Alas, moral bioehancement won’t stop climate change
Several recent articles in leading journals have considered the ability of moral bioehancement to produce ‘environmentally conscious’ citizens and thus (indirectly) reduce carbon emissions. In...
Moral bioehancement debate intensifies
Bioenhancement has been receiving increased attention since the 2013 publication of Julian Savulescu and Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement by Julian...
Savulescu – We have a moral obligation to increase the intelligence of our children
Oxford bioethicist Julian Savulescu calls for genetic screening of the unborn for IQ genes. Oxford bioethicist Julian Savulescu has again sparked controversy, this time advocating...
Two sceptical prophets
Hi there, By one of those strange quirks of fate, John F. Kennedy, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis and all died on November 22, 1963...
“We have a moral imperative to research moral enhancement”: Savulescu
At a TEDx conference in Barcelona last month, Oxford bioethicist Julian Savulescu shared his views on using medicine and technology for “moral enhancement”. At a...
The Coming Race — remembering Bulwer-Lytton
Hi there , Enhancement, physical, intellectual and moral, is a lively subject of discussion among some bioethicists. Is it ethical? Should it be treated as...
Make the world a better place. Take nice drugs.
Is moral bioenhancement the answer to the dark clouds gathering over the future of humanity? “What a wonderful world,” sang Louis Armstrong. But how can...