Suppose a school were to set out deliberately to improve the mental and physical capacities
of its students. Suppose its stated aims were to ensure that the pupils left the school not only …

In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be
allowed to enhance their children's characteristics. Gets away from fears of a Huxleyan …

Attempts to link evolution and ethics first sprang up in the middle of the last century, as
people turned to alternative foundations in response to what they perceived as the collapse …

We outline a number of ethical objections to genetic technologies aimed at enhancing
human capacities and traits. We then argue that, despite the persuasiveness of some of …

We respond to a number of objections raised by John Harris in this journal to our argument
that we should pursue genetic and other biological means of morally enhancing human …

Julian Savulescu...''improved posthumans would inevitably come to view the naturals''as
inferior, as a subspecies of humans suitable for exploitation, slavery, or even extermination …

Evolutionary ethics has a (deservedly) bad reputation. But we must not remain prisoners of
our past. Recent advances in Darwinian evolutionary biology pave the way for a linking of …

“The most obvious, and most immediate, and most important result of the Origin of Species
was to effect a separation between truth in moral science and truth in natural science,” so …

Few, if any, now share the confidence of some nineteenth-century thinkers that, by a process
as inevitable as the survival of the fittest in the animal kingdom, those principles of action …

Nick Agar noted in the pages of this journal in 2007, there now exists a significant body of
work in bioethics that argues in favor of enhancing human beings. 1 Writers including …