James Hughes
James Hughes Ph.D. is a bioethicist and sociologist teaching health policy and working at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago, where he also taught in the clinical bioethics program.
Dr. Hughes serves as the Executive Director of the World Transhumanist Association and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He also produces the syndicated weekly public affairs radio talk show program Changesurfer Radio and the biweekly Change Surfing column for Betterhumans.com, and contributes to the democratic transhumanist Cyborg Democracy blog.
Dr. Hughes' book Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future was published by Westview Press in November 2004.
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- "...my transhumanism is the inevitable conclusion of 400 years of humanist and scientific progress. Transhumanism is simply the natural extension of the idea that reason can improve our lives, and that there are no divinely imposed limits on our self-improvement. Thinking people raised in the wake of liberal democracy and humanism will naturally turn to transhumanism."
Bibliography
- Hughes, James. Embracing Change with All Four Arms: A Post-Humanist Defense of Genetic Engineering. 1996
- Hughes, James. The Politics of Transhumanism. 2002
- Hughes, James. Democratic Transhumanism. 2002
- Hughes, James. Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Westview Press, 2004. [ISBN 0813341981]
- Sirius, R. U. "Transhumanism's Left Hand Man". NeoFiles, Vol. 1, No. 9.