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Volume of Criticism of H+ Published
Posted: Feb 22, 2012
All the anti-H+ essays generated by the four year Templeton grant to the Arizona State University project on Transhumanism have been published in Germany.
 Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava / Mossman, Kenneth L. (eds.)
Building Better Humans? Refocusing the Debate on Transhumanism
Series: Beyond Humanism: Trans- and Posthumanism / Jenseits des Humanismus: Trans- und Posthumanismus - Volume 3
2012. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012. 520 pp.
ISBN 978-3-631-63513-1 hb.
Contents:
- Michael M. Crow: Science, Technology, and Democracy
- Quentin Wheeler: Recombinant Innovation Creative Hybrid Zones in the Adaptive University
- Hava Tirosh-Samuelson/Kenneth L. Mossman: New Perspectives on Transhumanism
- Hava Tirosh-Samuelson: Science and the Betterment of Humanity: Three British Prophets of Transhumanism
- Linell E. Cady: Religion and the Technowonderland of Transhumanism
- Norbert Samuelson/Hava Tirosh-Samuelson: Jewish Perspectives on Transhumanism
- Farzad Mahootian: Ideals of Human Perfection: A Comparison of Sufism and Transhumanism
- Eugene Clay: Transhumanism and the Orthodox Christian Tradition
- Steven M. Wasserstrom: «The True Dreams of Mankind». Mircea Eliade’s Transhumanist Fiction and the History of Religions
- Brian Gratton: What is Race? Transhumanism and the Evolutionary Sciences
- Kenneth L. Mossman: In Sickness and in Health: The (Fuzzy) Boundary between «Therapy» and «Enhancement»
- Gary E. Marchant/Alexandra López: The (In)Feasibility of Regulating Enhancement
- Steven A. Hoffman: Transhumanist Materialism: A Critique from Immunoneuropsychology
- Craig T. Nagoshi/Julie L. Nagoshi: Being Human versus Being Transhuman: The Mind-Body Problem and Lived Experience
- Michael J. White: Prenatal Human Enhancement and Issues of Responsibility
- Walter Glannon: Neuroscience’s Threat to Free Will
- Barry G. Ritchie: The (Un)Likelihood of a High-Tech Path to Immortality
- Daniel Barben: Converging Technologies, Transhumanism, and Future Society
- Joan L. McGregor: Transhumanism and Obligations to Future Generations
- Jerry Coursen: Against Species Extinction Transhumanism and Contemporary Technological Culture
- Braden Allenby: Technology and Transhumanism: Unpredictability, Radical Contingency, and Accelerating Change
- William J. Grassie: Is Transhumanism Scientifically Plausible? Posthuman Predictions and the Human Predicament.
About the editor(s)
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Professor of History, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, and Director of Jewish Studies at Arizona State University.
Kenneth L. Mossman is Professor of Health Physics at Arizona State University and administrative judge of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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It sounds however extremely interesting.
Has anybody read it yet? Is it really so “negative”?
In any event, sometimes “critical” commentaries depict an image of transhumanism much more interesting and appealing for some of us than “supporting”, mainstream-appeasing, ones. 
I find it intriguing, and resonating with my own views, for instance that they appear to put transhumanism and posthumanism in the same camp.
Criticism towards Transhumanism in this stage is good. It will strengthen the basic body of ideas and make it weatherproof.
And waterproof as well, hopefully.
...not surprised that it has been published in *Germany*...
Hah, ze wacky Germans, obstinate since the Roman age.
A really great book is H+/-: Transhumanism and Its Critics. I highly suggest this book. (I was the Guest Editor on the project that this book was the result of at the journal Global Spiral. Hava was the earlier Guest Editor who brought together authors to discount transhumanism and I brought together authors to rebut their erroneous and some substantial claims against transhumanism. It makes for very good reading.)
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