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faculty curriculum student awards and projects after macalester colloquium series
James J. Hughes Colloquium
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8:00 PM Location All are welcome, refreshments will be served. Questions? Call the Philosophy Dept. x6141
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Bioethics is giving way to biopolitics. The new biopolitics started with the mobilizations for and against the Roe v. Wade decision, and have been accelerated by the arguments around human enhancement technologies. The new biopolitics have a diverse group of religious and secular "bioconservatives" on one side, and liberal bioethicists, libertarians, transhumanists and technoprogresssives on the other. Debates driving biopolitical polarization are disagreement about (a) "humanness" vs. "personhood" as a basis for rights-bearing, (b) the importance of the "natural", (c) the capacity of human reason to improve on the human body, and (d) the legitimate grounds for restricting individual bodily autonomy, cognitive liberty and reproductive rights. James J. Hughes Ph.D. is the Associate Director of Institutional Research and Planning at Trinity College Dr. Hughes also teaches in Trinity College's Graduate Studies program. Dr. Hughes also produces the public affairs radio program Change Surfing column, and is author of "Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future" (2004, Westview Press).
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