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Global Spiral Publishes Ten Defenses of Transhumanism


February 06, 2009

In its “Special Issue on Transhumanism”, the magazine Global Spiral gave guest editor Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and five other authors - Ted Peters, Katherine Hayles, Don Ihde, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, and Andrew Pickering - all participants in a Templeton Foundation-funded project on transhumanism - an opportunity to critique transhumanism’s alleged faults. This responsive second Special Issue on Transhumanism is an opportunity for ten transhumanist authors - seven of them members of the IEET community - to evaluate the criticisms and address concerns.


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Posted by John L  on  02/15  at  02:42 PM

Good to see Metanexus / Spiral engaged positively in this. And nice work yourselves..





Posted by David Bowles  on  02/18  at  05:44 PM

Thanks for this.  I especially like Walker’s “Ship of Fools.”  Very cogent argument in favor of risking the unknown (perhaps negligible) “dangers” of transhumanism instead of the very real, very predictable, very deadly consequence of continuing as we have been…





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