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philosophy

Articles tagged philosophy, drawn from 5 portals. Tags are assigned by hand and cut across the portal structure, so this set will not match any single subject area.

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BioconservatismSocietyThe position that biotechnological modification of human beings should face a strong presumption against it, grounded in dignity, precaution, or the value of the given.presentEstablished
Bioethics of enhancementSocietyThe philosophical and policy debate over whether biomedical means may legitimately be used to push human capacities beyond species-typical function.presentEstablished
Future of humanityFoundationsThe study of humanity's possible long-run trajectories, conventionally grouped into extinction, recurrent collapse, plateau, and posthuman transformation.indefiniteSpeculative
Julian SavulescuPeopleAustralian bioethicist who formulated procreative beneficence and, with Ingmar Persson, the argument for moral bioenhancement; the leading academic advocate of human enhancement.presentEstablished
Max MorePeopleBritish-American philosopher who founded extropianism, wrote the principles that gave transhumanism its first organized programme, and led Alcor from 2011 to 2020.presentEstablished
Nick BostromPeopleSwedish philosopher who defined existential risk as a field, wrote Superintelligence, and formulated the simulation argument and the vulnerable world hypothesis.presentEstablished
PosthumanFoundationsA hypothetical being whose central capacities exceed the human maximum, and, in a separate scholarly tradition, a critique of the humanist subject itself.indefiniteSpeculative
Procreative beneficenceSocietyJulian Savulescu's principle that prospective parents have moral reason to select, among the children they could have, the one expected to live the best life.presentContested