Invertebrate animals are frequently lumped into a single category and denied welfare
protections despite their considerable cognitive, behavioral, and evolutionary diversity …

In this book Joshua Shepherd presents a systematic account of the value present within
conscious experience. This account emphasizes not only the nature of consciousness, but …

We imagine posthumans as humans made superhumanly intelligent or resilient by future
advances in nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science …

Recent technological developments and potential technological developments of the near
future require us to try to think clearly about what it is to have moral status and about when …

An argument that achieving millennial life spans or monumental intellects will destroy values
that give meaning to human lives. Proposals to make us smarter than the greatest geniuses …

A major approach to the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) is to use social choice, in which
the AI is designed to act according to the aggregate views of society. This is found in the AI …

The human is a central reference point for human rights. But who or what is that human?
And given its long history of exclusiveness, when so many of those now recognised as …

Transhumanism, the belief that technology can transcend the limitations of the human body
and brain, is part of the family of Enlightenment philosophies. As such, transhumanism has …

Synthetic biologists aim to generate biological organisms according to rational design
principles. Their work may have many beneficial applications, but it also raises potentially …

Cary Wolfe begins his widely known book What Is Posthumanism?(2010) by announcing the
results of a Google search. He reports that at the time of his writing (summer 2008) the …