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• Saletan on Sandel and human perfection

  ( Crossposted from Metamagician and the Hellfire Club .) The New York Times review of Michael Sandel's The Case against Perfection by William Saletan gets things about half right, as Saletan says of Sandel himself. In fact, I'd go a bit further Read More...
  Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 12:46 PM by Russell Blackford / 1 Comments

  Tags: bioconservativism, enhancement, genetic engineering, human enhancement, philosophy, Michael Sandel, William Saletan

• Naturalistic pluralism and the challenge of human enhancement

  ( Crossposted with minor modifications from Metamagician and the Hellfire Club .) (This is the first draft of my final section of my final chapter of my current study of human enhancement technologies. Given that this is the climax, I've allowed myself Read More...
  Posted Sunday, June 17, 2007 1:04 PM by Russell Blackford / 0 Comments

  Tags: naturalism, reason, enhancement, genetic engineering, metaphysical naturalism, human future, human enhancement, moral pluralism, philosophy