Transforming Human Nature

Date: 10/21/2011 to 10/23/2011

Location:
Dublin City University
Dublin 9
Ireland

Speaker: Prof. Julian Savulescu, Director of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, UK

Further information: http://www.transformingthehuman.org/index.html

Description: During the last two decades, advances in technological integration are calling for special attention from thinkers across the disciplines and around the world. As the technological characteristics of the human condition impact our understanding of "the human", we are faced with radical changes in self-undersatnding and human identity. In short, through technology we are transforming human nature. The first global conference on "Transforming Human Nature" deals with a wide range of topics including bioenhancement, transhumanism and posthumanism.

Contact:
Dr. Thomas Philbeck
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
Road No 3831
Manama
Bahrain
Phone: 00973 - 177711444
tphilbec@nyit.edu
http://transformingthehuman.org/

Organizer: New York Institute of Technology (NYIT); University of Exeter; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Dublin City University

Program coordination: Dr. Thomas Philbeck, New York Institute of Technology; Dr. Curtis Carbonell, New York Institute of Technology; PD Dr. Michael Hauskeller, University of Exeter; Dr. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Dr. Dónal O'Mathúna, Dublin City University

Keywords: biotechnology; eugenics/enhancement; research ethics; technology ethics