Human Enhancement Symposium

 

EXPLORING HUMAN ENHANCEMENT: A SYMPOSIUM

at The Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology
The University of Texas at Dallas

April 8-9, 2011
Hyatt Regency North Dallas Hotel
Richardson, Texas

 

• Call for Papers
• Registration
• Hotel & Travel Information (Deadline for Group Rate: March 17)

Preliminary Program

Thursday, April 7th

6:00-8:00 PM – Registration – Strongly Encouraged

Friday, April 8th

8:00-8:30 AM – Registration & Coffee

8:30-8:35 AM – Welcome

• Matthew J. Brown, Director, Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology

8:35-8:40 AM – Opening Remarks

• Dennis Kratz, Dean of UTD School of Arts & Humanities and Founding Director, Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology

8:40-9:15 AM –  Session 1: What is Human Perfection?

• Ruth Tallman (Barry University)

9:15-9:45 AM – Session 2: Genetics and Athletic Doping

• Genetic Advantage and Enhanced Humans – Noah Levin (Washington State University – Pullman)

9:45-10:00 AM – Break

10:00-11:00 AM – Session 3: Cognitive Enhancers and Fairness

• Ethical Implications of Taking Smart Drugs: Is Taking Smart Drugs Smart? – Cesar Palacios Gonzalez (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
• Neuroeconomics and the Enhancement of Human Decision-making – David M. Frank (University of Texas, Austin)

11:00AM-12:00PM – Discussion Panel: Super-soldiers and Human Enhancement: Applications of Military Research

• Ray Baughman (UT Dallas) and  Will Rosellini (Microtransponder, Inc.)

12:00-1:15 PM – Lunch on your own

1:30-2:30 PM – Session 4: Enhancing Morality I: Moral Status Enhancement

• On the Possibility and Implications of Moral Status Enhancement – Ronald Sandler (Northeastern University) & John Basl (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
• Cognitive Enhancement and Discriminatory Implications of the Standard View of Moral Status – Matthew C. Braddock (Duke University)

2:30-3:30 PM –  Session 5: Enhancing Morality II: Engineering Morality

• “Virtue Engineering” and Moral Agency: Will Post-Humans Still Need the Virtues? – Fabrice Jotterand
• Hive-Mind Ethics: What are they? – Katherine Ruff (Montana State University)

3:30-3:45 PM – Break

3:45-4:45 PM – Workshop Session

• Theorizing the Body 2.0 – Linda F. Hogle

4:45-5:45 PM – Poster Session

5:45-7:15 PM – Dinner on your own

7:30 PM – Keynote Lecture

• Extinction by Design: Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Human Evolution – Maxwell Mehlman

Saturday, April 9th

7:30-8:00 AM – Registration & Coffee

8:00-8:30 AM – Session 6: Eugenics

• Enhancing Discourse, Not People: Habermas’s Modest Proposal for Liberal Eugenics – Tatiana Patrone (Ithaca College)

8:30-9:30 AM –  Session 7: Gender and Cyborgs

• Extended Minds, Extended Technologies, and Extended Persons – Riley Halligan (Montana State University)
• Substrate Matters: Feminism and Gender in Singularitarianism – Amy Michelle DeBaets (Emory Unversity)

9:30-9:45 AM – Break

9:45-10:45 AM – Session 8: A New Caste System

• The Ethics of Human Impairment – Jim Delaney & Steve Petersen (Niagara University)
• You Look Human To Me! Investigating The Political Stakes of ‘Species Integrity’, A Phenomenological Approach – Darian Meacham (University of the West of England)

10:45-11:00AM – Break

11:00AM-12:00 PM – Workshop Session

• Be More Than You Can Be: Biomedical Enhancement in the Military – Maxwell Mehlman

12:00-1:30 PM – Lunch on your own

1:45-3:15 PM – Keynote Lecture

• Designing the Able Body – Linda F. Hogle

3:15-3:30 PM – Break

3:30-4:30 PM – Session 9: Putting on an Enhanced Self: Virtual Reality and Wearable Technology

• Emergent Virtualism — Human Enhancement through Game-Based Simulations – Marjorie A. Zielke (University of Texas at Dallas)
• Emerging Transmortal Designs for Wearable Selves – Natasha Vita-More (University of Plymouth, UK)

4:30-5:30 PM – Wrap-Up Discussion

• Maxwell Mehlman
• Linda Hogle
• Janet Kourany
• Fritz Allhoff

5:30-7:00PM –  Dinner on your own

7:15 PM –  Shuttle to UTD from Hyatt

8:00PM – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, UTD University Theatre

• FREE with conference registration fee