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October 2014

October 07, 2014

Harrison Bergeron-ing a Too-Exceptional Sprinter

There's an article in the NYT today covering one of my philosophy of the body hobbyhorses....

November 2012

November 25, 2012

“Because I am fearfully and wonderfully made”

Frankenstein is at least the great-uncle of the zombie story. The alternate title of Shelley’s...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

Bob, can I interest you in Transhumanism?

Bob Seidensticker has looked over my recent post on objective morality and hard to get...

May 2012

May 04, 2012

Scared of Darwin for All the Wrong Reasons

UPDATE: I've expanded a response to a commenter in a new post: "Have Humans 'Won'...

April 2012

April 19, 2012

Irrational with Respect to What?

In Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman draws on a lot of empirical studies where...

April 18, 2012

Quasi-Transhumanist Charismatic Christians

This post is part of Patheos's book club for T.M. Luhrmann's When God Talks Back:...

April 16, 2012

When Do You Reject Your Intuitions?

A while ago, a commenter emailed me to ask if I could recommend any books...

March 2012

March 28, 2012

Q&A on Mormon Priesthood (Part 2)

Now that Michael's given us an overview of the Mormon priesthood and answered some of...

March 05, 2012

Spotted: A New Patheos Blogger with a Dedicated ‘Transhumanist’ Tag

Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five...

March 03, 2012

Intelligently Designed Bodies

Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five...

February 2012

February 29, 2012

Evolution Isn’t On Our Side

Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five...

February 29, 2012

Evolution Doesn’t Select for Ethics

Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five...

February 24, 2012

No ‘Healthy Outlet’ for Bad Habits

Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I'm one of...

January 2012

January 23, 2012

Futzing Around with Final Causes

This post is part of a series on Aquinas, Aristotle, and Edward Feser's explanation of them...

December 2011

December 10, 2011

Finding the Morality Pill Hard to Swallow

After a week of talking about transhumanism, brain-hacking, and the persistence of identity, I couldn't...

December 08, 2011

Simulated Ethics and Brainmodding

It's a week of tough questions about transhumanism. After reading my post on moral hazard...

December 07, 2011

Hoist on my own (Virtual) Petard?

Last week, I was ragging on people who deny meaning in this life or put...

September 2011

September 26, 2011

Natural Death Black Boxes

I warned commenters against turning the Soup Nazi Approach to Sex post into an abortion...

September 15, 2011

Why Bother Genemodding?

Flesh to fiber-optic interface from Battlestar Galactica Alex Knapp likes to kick around transhumanist problems...

September 14, 2011

Dualism and Descartes’s Demon

At the National Catholic Register, Frank Cronin has written a post titled, “Atheism, Quidditch, and...

July 2011

July 01, 2011

Natural vs Normative

I appreciate the Christians weighing in on why they oppose gay marriage and trying to...

April 2011

April 15, 2011

NFP, Contraception, and (oh yes) Transhumanism

I really appreciate the patience and attention to detail both sides are displaying in the...

March 2011

March 22, 2011

The Trap of Numbness and Self-Satisfaction

I've still been thinking about some of the questions we've been picking over in the...

March 17, 2011

Drinking Death Upon Yourself

Patrick had an interesting observation on the comment thread of my post on jump discontinuities...

March 14, 2011

Inducing a Moral Jump Discontinuity (A thought experiment)

Tristyn of Eschatological Psychosis jumps the line by prefacing her comment on my review of...

March 14, 2011

The Body and Buggy Software

Christian of The Thinking Grounds has posted a new installment in his series on defining...

March 13, 2011

David Brooks and the Social Automaton

After reading my slam on David Brooks's The Social Animal, Dylan had some objections: "Other...

February 2011

February 14, 2011

Sorry, did someone say ‘Transhumanism?’

You may think no one's mentioned transhumanism on the blog lately, but then you haven't...

January 2011

January 12, 2011

Fun and Games with Minds and Brains

There have been a bunch of interesting comments already on my post on Mind/Brain division,...

January 11, 2011

Picking an Atheist’s Brain… er… Mind

Over at The Warfare is Mental, blogger cl was perplexed by a recent comment of...