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Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement
An argument that achieving millennial life spans or monumental intellects will destroy values that give meaning to human lives. Proposals to make us s...
In Defence of Human Enhancement
In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children’s characteristics. Get...
Science, Ethics, and Nature
Are bacteriophage T4 and the long-nosed elephant fish valuable in their own right? Agar defends an affirmative answer to this question by arguing that...
Why Technology Isn't the Answer to Everything
In The Paradox of Progress, Nicholas Agar challenges the central claims of 'radical optimism': that technological progress will automatically make us ...
A Philosophical Defense of Limits
A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings. ...
We face an emerging range of technologies that can be applied to our human natures with the goal of enhancing us. There are nootropic smart drugs and ...
An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy. In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and c...
Unravelling the Cloning Debate
Here Nicholas Agar provides a perfect guide to a labyrinthine debate....
A Skeptic's Guide to Technology
How to Think about Progress is an interdisciplinary work exploring whether optimistic claims about technology’s potential stand up to humanity’s m...
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