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Final Reflections
The rapidly deteriorating health of the Earth as documented in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2021 report is reviewed. Additional...
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The relationship between speculation and translation in Bioethics: methods and methodologies
There are increasing pressures for bioethics to emphasise ‘translation’. Against this backdrop, we defend ‘speculative bioethics’. We explore...
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Genebanking plant genetic resources in the postgenomic era
Genebanking, the process of preserving genetic resources, is a central practice in the modern management of crop genetics, especially for the species...
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Who are We, and Who (or What) Do We Want to Become? An Evolutionary Perspective on Biotransformative Technologies
Human evolution sits at several important thresholds. In organic evolution, interplay between exogenous environmental and genetic factors rendered...
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Biokitsch in Art: And the Survival of the Prettiest
Today’s and tomorrow’s biotechnology developments are opening up many possibilities for modifying organisms, including the development of new visual...
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Introduction
Whenever people ask me what I am writing about, their reactions to my answer are invariably along the lines of: “What? What does politics have to do...
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Including animal welfare targets in the SDGs: the case of animal farming
There is an increasing body of literature proposing to include animal welfare in the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda. The main argument...
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Is Genome Editing Unnatural?
The concept of nature and naturalness plays an important role in academic and public bioethical discussions. Given the obvious weakness of arguments...
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Co-existence
Co-existence is a major theme in the philosophical discourse on the Anthropocene. The best known movements within Anthropocene thinking are...
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Religiously Metaphysical Arguments Against Agrifood Biotechnology
Metaphysical claims assert categories and categorical systems for the broadest and most general characterizations of reality and experience. The...
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Why catastrophic events, human enhancement and progress in robotics may limit individual health rights
Despite the fact that people usually believe that individual health rights have an intrinsic value, they have, in fact, only extrinsic value. They...
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Structuralism, Vitalism, and Bioengineering
Genetic manipulation (bioengineering) is implicit to the current paradigm of modern biology. Concerns raised about the technology have focused...
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Dematerialization and Intellectual Property in the Biosciences
Over the past 40 years, modern biosciences coevolved with the expansion of intellectual property, as new laws have enabled life forms that are the...
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Extinct and Alive: Towards A Broader Account of Loss
Extinction is usually associated with the death of the last remaining individual of a species, taxon, or population of organisms. Here I ask the...
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Applied Ethics: AI and Ethics
Gain an understanding about how we can proceed to apply ethics
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The role of philosophy and ethics at the edges of medicine
BackgroundThe edge metaphor is ubiquitous in describing the present situation in the world, and nowhere is this as clearly visible as in medicine....