TRANSFORMING HUMANITY: FANTASY? DREAM? NIGHTMARE?

http://www.centerforinquiry.net/research/conferences/

December 3 and 4: Friday 9am to 9pm and Saturday 9am to 6pm

University of Pennsylvania, 160 Biomedical Research Building Auditorium
Philadelphia PA USA

Sponsored by The Center for Inquiry, the Penn Center for Bioethics, and the Penn Center for Neuroscience & Society

This conference will address technological, moral, and legal questions about potential biomedical enhancements to humanity.

SPEAKERS

Adrienne Asch (Yeshiva) and James Block (DePaul): The Mechanization of Politics: Rethinking Human Transformation
Allen Buchanan (Duke): Breaking Evolution’s Chains
Arthur Caplan (Penn): Fair or Foul: The Use of Enhancements in Sports
Peter Caws (George Washington): What is Humanity, that We should be Worried about Transforming It?
Martha Farah (Penn): Eight Things We Don’t Know about Neurocognitive Enhancement
James Giordano (Potomac Institute): Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Strivings to Flourish
Ronald Lindsay (CFI): The Ethics of Enhancements: Spurious Concerns and Genuine Uncertainties
Maxwell Mehlman (Case Western): Can Humanity Survive Evolutionary Engineering?
Jonathan Moreno (Penn): Enhancement and National Security
John Shook (CFI): Challenges for a Neuroscience of Moral Enhancement
Rosemarie Tong (UNC-Charlotte): Feminist Reflections on Looking Better and Living Longer

& additional presenters

General Registration: $89   /    CFI Friends-of-the-Center: $69

Students: $29 /  U Penn Students: free

Sponsored by

The Center for Inquiry, the Penn Center for Bioethics,
and the Penn Center for Neuroscience & Society

Register at the conference, or pre-register online at www.centerforinquiry.net/research/