The following annual debate sponsored by the sociology department may be of interest to people on this list.   ‘There is no scientific basis to the concept of humanity’   Pro: John Harris Con: Steve Fuller   Time and Place: Monday 19 May 2008, 17:30-19:00, Ramphal Building, R2.01, University of Warwick.  

John Harris, FMedSci, is Director of The Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation and Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics, School of Law, University of Manchester. He is joint Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Medical Ethics and has been a member of The United Kingdom Human Genetics Commission since its foundation in 1999 and is a Member of the Medical Ethics Committee of the British Medical Association. Recent Books Include: Clones Genes and Immortality. (Oxford, 1998).  John Harris Ed. Bioethics. Oxford Readings in Philosophy Series. (Oxford, 2001). Justine C. Burley and John Harris Eds. A Companion To Genethics:  Philosophy and the Genetic Revolution. (Basil Blackwell, 2002) and On Cloning  (Routledge, 2004). His new book Enhancing Evolution is published by Princeton University Press in 2007.

 

Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick. He is 2008 president of the sociology and social policy section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He is most closely associated with the research programme of ‘social epistemology’, the name of a quarterly journal he founded in 1987 and the first of his fifteen books. His most recent books include New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies (Polity, 2007) and Science vs. Religion? Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution (Polity, 2007).  He is the UK partner of a European Union project on ‘converging technologies for the enhancement of human performance’. In 2007 he was awarded a higher doctorate (D.Litt.) by Warwick for contributions to scholarship.

 

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