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• Critique of "All Together Now"

  Do humans have the right to “uplift” animals? In his “All Together Now: Developmental and ethical considerations for biologically uplifting nonhuman animals,” George Dvorsky makes the case for raising the intelligence of animals Read More...
  Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 8:57 AM by eloi / 0 Comments

  Tags: animal uplift dvorsky bioethics rawls singer hughes liberal democracy political philosophy evolution

• Critique of Democratic Transhumanism 2.0

  What is the difference between transhumanism and democratic transhumanism? In his Democratic Transhumanism 2.0, Dr. James Hughes writes that "until very recently the majority of transhumanists have been libertarians. As a consequence, issues of equality Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:00 PM by eloi / 1 Comments

  Tags: hughes dvorsky wilde democratic transhumanism homosexuality egalitarianism anthropocentricism evolution lysenko lysenkoism lamark lamarkism gould

• Starvation & Sustainability

  The price of such staples as wheat, corn, and rice has been rising dramatically for some time now. At least part of the increase in price has been blamed on the production of biofuel, seen by many as an eco-friendly alternative energy source whose use Read More...
  Posted Sunday, April 20, 2008 5:46 AM by eloi / 1 Comments

  Tags: global warming climate change

• Postgenderism & Egalitarianism

  Postgenderism & Egalitarianism In their essay Postgenderism: Beyond the Gender Binary, George Dvorsky and James Hughes (hereafter D&H), argue that “the erosion of binary gender will be liberatory” and contend that “dyadic gender Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:22 AM by eloi / 1 Comments

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• The Dawkins Delusion

  A critique of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion from an evolutionary point of view. by eloi Odd book for an evolutionary biologist to write. For in rejecting the adaptive function of religious belief, Dawkins also rejects the significance of adaptation, Read More...
  Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 10:46 PM by eloi / 3 Comments

  Tags: richard dawkins God delusion evolutionary psychology

• Jane Roe, meet Peter Singer

  In his meticulous study of the case for harvesting older human embryos, The Organ Factory, William Saletan describes how embryonic stem cells are too difficult to work with, and how much less technically problematic it would be to harvest tissue from Read More...
  Posted Sunday, May 13, 2007 1:44 AM by eloi / 3 Comments

  Tags: embryonic stem cells, bioethics, cloning, biolaw, biojurisprudence