Living Forever - Boring?

Living Forever - Boring?

Living Forever - Boring? A recent article ["Would it be boring to live forever"] raised the question that if science could resolve the problem of dying and prolong human life indefinitely, in a…
Love Drugs And The Perils Of Human Enhancement

Love Drugs And The Perils Of Human Enhancement

The latest issue of Philosophy Now features an interesting collection of articles on human enhancement, with articles arguing that the approach is “essential” to humans in order to avoid catastrophes…
Playing God

Playing God

I recently came across an article entitled "Synthetic biology: 'playing God' is vital if we are to create a better future for all".   As you can imagine, the article itself is primarily focused…
Eugenics - Coming To A Rich Country Near You

Eugenics - Coming To A Rich Country Near You

Eugenics, the darling of elite, educated progressives 100 years ago in their quest to create Utopia, has been out of favor since those crazy Germans took it too far in the late 1930s, but there is…
Platonic Ignorance

Platonic Ignorance

Plato famously maintained that knowledge is “justified true belief,” meaning that to claim the status of knowledge our beliefs (say, that the earth goes around the sun, rather than the other way…
The Ethics Of Humor

The Ethics Of Humor

Plato and a platypus walked into a bar. The bartender gave the philosopher a quizzical look, and Plato said, “What can I say? She looked better in the cave.” The relationship between humor and…