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Templeton Research Lectures

Templeton Research Lectures

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Opposing the Opponents of Human Enhancement-And Then What?

Opposing the Opponents of Human Enhancement-And Then What?

Michael H. Shapiro (University of Southern California) is the Dorothy W. Nelson Professor of Law at University of Southe... Read more

24 Apr 2009

59mins

Ranked #2

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The Blind Spot of Humanism and Transhumanism: The Scientific study of Human Nature

The Blind Spot of Humanism and Transhumanism: The Scientific study of Human Nature

Pascal Boyer (Washington University) is Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory in Arts & Sciences.... Read more

16 Apr 2007

44mins

Ranked #3

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A Missing Global Blueprint for Integral Life and Culture: The Maturation of the Human Species

A Missing Global Blueprint for Integral Life and Culture: The Maturation of the Human Species

Ashok Gangadean (Haverford College) is Professor of Philosophy and was the first Director of the Margaret Gest Center fo... Read more

16 Apr 2007

1hr 2mins

Ranked #4

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Lives in the Balance

Lives in the Balance

Brad Allenby joined ASU in 2004 after spending over twenty years working for AT&T as counsel, senior environmental c... Read more

17 Nov 2007

51mins

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Who Are We? Reconciling Universal Human Nature and Genetic Uniqueness

Who Are We? Reconciling Universal Human Nature and Genetic Uniqueness

John Tooby is best known for his work in pioneering the new field of evolutionary psychology, along with Templeton Resea... Read more

17 Apr 2007

53mins

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Can Beauty Build Adapted Minds? Neural Self-Assembly in a Changing World

Can Beauty Build Adapted Minds? Neural Self-Assembly in a Changing World

John Tooby (University of California, Santa Barbara) is Professor of Anthropology and co–director of UCSB’ Center for Ev... Read more

16 Apr 2007

42mins

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Does the Wall Still Stand? The Implications of Transhumanism for the Seperation of Church and State

Does the Wall Still Stand? The Implications of Transhumanism for the Seperation of Church and State

Steven P. Goldberg (Georgetown University) is James M. and Catherine F. Denny Professor of Law at Georgetown University.... Read more

24 Apr 2009

1hr 8mins

Ranked #8

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Transhumanism and the Future of Democracy: Closing Discussion

Transhumanism and the Future of Democracy: Closing Discussion

Charles Townes (University of California at Berkeley) is a Nobel Laureate, Professor Emeritus at the University of Calif... Read more

24 Apr 2009

33mins

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Is There a Human Nature:An Argument Against Modern Excarnation

Is There a Human Nature:An Argument Against Modern Excarnation

Jean Bethke Elshtain (University of Chicago) is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, ... Read more

24 Apr 2009

1hr 18mins

Ranked #10

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Transhumanism and the Limits of Democracy

Transhumanism and the Limits of Democracy

Ronald Bailey (Reason Magazine) is the award-winning science correspondent for Reason magazine and Reason.com, where he ... Read more

24 Apr 2009

1hr 12mins

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Directed Evolution: Public Policy and Human Enhancement

Directed Evolution: Public Policy and Human Enhancement

Maxwell J. Mehlman is the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University and the Director of t... Read more

20 Apr 2009

1hr 5mins

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From Dante to the Internet: Body and Soul as Aspects of Being

From Dante to the Internet: Body and Soul as Aspects of Being

Margaret Wertheim is an internationally noted science writer and commentator who, in addition to her books, has written ... Read more

23 Feb 2009

1hr 2mins

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Improved Humans: Legal and Political Aspects of the New Genetics

Improved Humans: Legal and Political Aspects of the New Genetics

Maxwell J. Mehlman is the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University and the Director of t... Read more

12 Nov 2008

53mins

Ranked #14

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Cybernetics is an Antihumanism: Advanced Technologies and the Rebellion Against the Human Condition

Cybernetics is an Antihumanism: Advanced Technologies and the Rebellion Against the Human Condition

Jean-Pierre Dupuy is professor of social and political philosophy and director of the Centre de Recherche en Épistémolog... Read more

25 Apr 2008

1hr 13mins

Ranked #15

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Of Which Human are We Post?

Of Which Human are We Post?

Don Ihde is Distinguished Professor of philosophy at Stony Brook University. He is the author of thirteen books and the ... Read more

25 Apr 2008

1hr 19mins

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