October 26, 2011
Justice without Foundations
Every age has beliefs about the good life and about ultimate reality that seem normal at the time but are strange and...
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October 26, 2011
The Case for Enhancing People
Does the enhancement of human physical and intellectual capacities undermine virtue? In answering this question, we...
October 26, 2011
Liberation Biology, Lost in the Cosmos
It is never easy to argue with a libertarian, particularly one as intelligent and well-informed as Ronald Bailey. His...
October 26, 2011
Machine Morality and Human Responsibility
Charles T. Rubin on the paradoxes of the project to program virtue
October 26, 2011
Why We Need a ‘Stuck with Virtue’ Science
Peter A. Lawler and Marc D. Guerra on why in-between beings will always need virtue.
October 26, 2011
The Science of Politics and the Conquest of Nature
How liberal theory and evolutionary science gave us transhumanism
August 8, 2011
Place and Placelessness in America
In the 1990s, the mavens of high technology praised in breathless tones a new “placelessness.” Thanks to the...
July 18, 2011
July 18, 2011
The Particularities of Place
Gertrude Stein’s famous line about the city of Oakland, California — that there is no “there” there — has...
July 18, 2011
The New Meaning of Mobility
What is “mobility” and what is it for? The word has commonly been used to describe upward movement on the...
