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Nicholas Agar

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Ethics

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#281

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Nicholas Agar's Degrees

PhD Philosophy University of New Zealand
Masters Philosophy University of New Zealand
Bachelors Philosophy University of New Zealand

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According to Wikipedia, Nicholas Agar is a New Zealand professor of ethics at the University of Waikato. Agar has a BA from the University of Auckland, an MA from the Victoria University of Wellington, and a PhD from the Australian National University. He has been teaching at Victoria since 1996.

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Nicholas Agar's Published Works

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Published Works

Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement (2004) (190)
Humanity's End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement (2010) (138)
Liberal eugenics. (1998) (102)
Truly Human Enhancement: A Philosophical Defense of Limits (2013) (70)
What do frogs really believe (1993) (62)
Whereto Transhumanism? The Literature Reaches a Critical Mass (2007) (50)
Why is it possible to enhance moral status and why doing so is wrong? (2012) (46)
Life's intrinsic value : science, ethics, and nature (2001) (42)
Truly Human Enhancement (2013) (37)
The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life (2003) (33)
Life's Intrinsic Value (2001) (24)
A question about defining moral bioenhancement (2013) (24)
How to Be Human in the Digital Economy (2019) (23)
A Defense of Truly Human Enhancement (2014) (22)
Biocentrism and the Concept of Life (1997) (19)
Moral bioenhancement is dangerous (2013) (15)
How to Treat Machines that Might Have Minds (2020) (14)
Why We Should Defend Gene Editing as Eugenics. (2018) (14)
Embryonic Potential and Stem Cells (2007) (13)
Can ‘eugenics’ be defended? (2021) (10)
Designing babies: morally permissible ways to modify the human genome. (1995) (9)
Enhancing genetic virtue? (2010) (9)
Functionalism and Personal Identity (2003) (9)
Ray Kurzweil and Uploading: Just Say No! (2011) (8)
Moral bioenhancement and the utilitarian catastrophe. (2015) (8)
The Sceptical Optimist (2015) (7)
Valuing Species and Valuing Individuals (1995) (7)
Perfect Copy: Unravelling the Cloning Debate (2002) (6)
On the irrationality of mind-uploading: a rely to Neil Levy (2012) (6)
Thoughts about our species' future: themes from Humanity's End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement. 1 (2010) (5)
Cloning and identity. (2003) (5)
Don’t Worry about Superintelligence (2016) (5)
How to Defend Genetic Enhancement (2008) (5)
On the Prudential Irrationality of Mind Uploading (2014) (4)
We must not create beings with moral standing superior to our own (2013) (4)
Still afraid of needy post-persons (2012) (3)
Why we can't really say what post-persons are (2011) (3)
Designer Biology: The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems (2013) (3)
The debate over liberal eugenics. (2006) (3)
Human Enhancement and the Story of Job (2017) (2)
Radical Human Enhancement as a Transformative Change (2014) (2)
Designer Babies : Ethical Considerations (2015) (2)
How to insure against utilitarian overconfidence (2014) (2)
Enhancement, Mind-Uploading, and Personal Identity (2016) (1)
On the irrationality of mind-uploading: a rely to Neil Levy (2011) (1)
Transformative change in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (2018) (1)
Commentary: The Implementation Ethics of Moral Enhancement. (2019) (1)
Concepts of therapy and normal human experience (2006) (1)
Teleogy and genes (1996) (1)
The Moral Case against Radical Life Extension (2014) (1)
We should eliminate the concept of disease from mental health (2019) (1)
The Threat to Human Identities from Too Much Enhancement (2014) (1)
GM Food, Risk, and Taste (2003) (1)
Agar's Review of Katz (2002) (1)
Biodiversity and Biotechnology (2008) (1)
The Problem of Nature (2002) (1)
What Is Radical Enhancement (2010) (1)
Radical Enhancement and Posthumanity (2010) (1)
Why Moral Status Enhancement Is a Morally Bad Thing (2014) (0)
Why Radical Cognitive Enhancement Will (Probably) Enhance Moral Status (2014) (0)
Genius Sperm, Eugenics and Enhancement Technologies (2008) (0)
The Therapist—Aubrey de Grey’s Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (2010) (0)
A Species-Relativist Conclusion about Radical Enhancement (2010) (0)
A Pragmatic Optimism About Enhancement Technologies (2008) (0)
How to Treat Machines that Might Have Minds (2019) (0)
What Interest Do We Have in Superhuman Feats (2014) (0)
At the dawn of a great transition: the question of radical enhancement. Blackford, Russell. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2021. 203 pp. ISBN 9783796541896. $146.00. (Hardback). (2022) (0)
Challenges from the Future of Human Enhancement (2017) (0)
Transformative change in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (2018) (0)
How to insure against utilitarian overconfidence (2014) (0)
What Can We Learn from Eugenics? (2020) (0)
Should We Enhance Our Cognitive Powers to Better Understand the Universe and Our Place in It (2014) (0)
The Moral Image of Therapy (2008) (0)
Book Review. Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation Anthony O'Hear (2001) (0)
The Moral Image of Nurture (2008) (0)
Nicholas Agar, 2010. Humanity’s End, Massac husetts, The MIT Press, 219pp. (2012) (0)
Erratum to: On the irrationality of mind-uploading: a reply to Neil Levy (2014) (0)
Enhanced Humans When (2008) (0)
Erratum to: On the irrationality of mind-uploading: a reply to Neil Levy (2014) (0)
Two Ideals of Human Enhancement (2014) (0)
Teleology and Genes (1996) (0)
Our Postliberal Future (2008) (0)
PARENTAL VIRTUE: A NEW WAY OF THINKING ABOUT THE MORALITY OF REPRODUCTIVE ACTIONS (p 181-190) ROSALIND MCDOUGALL THE PARENTAL OBLIGATION TO EXPAND A CHILD'S RANGE OF OPEN FUTURES WHEN MAKING GENETIC TRAIT SELECTIONS FOR THEIR CHILD (p 191-197) (2007) (0)
The Sociologist—James Hughes and the Many Paths of Moral Enhancement (2010) (0)
Agar's Review of Katz (2002) (0)
Is Uploading Ourselves into Machines a Good Bet (2010) (0)
Let's Treat Robots Like Yo-Yo Ma's Cello—As An Instrument for Human Intelligence (2015) (0)
The Philosopher—Nick Bostrom on the Morality of Enhancement (2010) (0)
Who Wants to Live Forever (2010) (0)
Many Thanks to Bioethics Reviewers. (2015) (0)
A Technological Yet Truly Human Future—as Depicted in Star Trek (2014) (0)
Making Moral Images of Biotechnology (2008) (0)
The Technologist—Ray Kurzweil and the Law of Accelerating Returns (2010) (0)

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