The Compatibility of Religious and Transhumanist Views of Metaphysics, Suffering, Virtue and Transcendence in an Enhanced Future
Exploring the compatibility of the transhumanist project with the major world faiths.
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Transdisciplinarity and the Development of an Integrated Model of Personhood, Health, and Wellness
Good health and well being require a clean and harmonious environment in which physical, physiological, social and aesthetic factors are all given their due importance. The environment should be regarded as a resource for improving living conditions and increasing well being. – World Health Organization Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care…
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Ethics of Genetic Enhancement
Introduction For future generations, genetic engineering might all but eliminate the predisposition to serious disease and disability. It is not difficult to imagine a future where parents routinely select genetic enhancement to “improve” not only the health and longevity, but the physical features, behavioral traits, and aptitudes of their children. I want to discuss…
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Catholic Metaphysics and the Collapse of the Enlightenment
Metaviews 087. 2000.10.08. Approximately 13,060 words. Below is a report on a Vatican conference on Metaphysics for theThird Millennium, which took place in Rome a month ago. The reportis written by David Murray and followed by the text of one of thepresenters, Nicholas Capaldi., a Professor of Philosophy and Law atthe University of Tulsa, Oklahoma….
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Useless Arithmetic and Inconvenient Truths
A review of Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future by Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Columbia University Press, 2007. My story begins with the intriguing title of a new book — Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future (Pilkey 2007). The authors are a father and daughter team. The…
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Eating Well Together: Donna Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto
“When Species Meet” is a continuation and enlargement of Donna Haraway’s previous book. Both are efforts to do philosophy on the boundaries where species interact and to explore the complex relations between humans and animals.
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Resources and Problems in Whitehead’s Metaphysics
His process metaphysics tends to depersonalize God to the extent of rendering theism irrelevant and naturalize moral evil in the service of evolution.
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Sleepless in Tehran
Through Metanexus Institute, I had helped to organize a delegation of Western scholars to participate in this International Congress on Religion and Science. This was the first conference of its kind to be held in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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(D)evolving Catholic Perspectives on Creation
When you gotta go, you gotta go. In the men’s room after Michael Behe’s opening talk at a recent intelligent design symposium a fellow lad-in-waiting mocked, “There’s an evolutionary explanation for this,” referring to the dozen of us on a line that stretched to the exit. “As long as they don’t have to explain anything…
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H-: Engaging Transhumanism: A Critical Historical Perspective
Technology is transforming human life at a faster pace than ever before. The convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, robotics, information and communication technology, and applied cognate science poses a new situation in which the human has become a design project. The new technologies allow for new kinds of cognitive tools that combine artificial intelligence with interface…
