Whilst Clynes and Kline saw participant evolution as the process of creating cyborgs, the idea has been adopted and propounded by transhumanists who argue that individuals should have the choice of us ...
The concept can be traced to H. G. Wells' novel The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), in which the eponymous scientist transforms animals into horrifying parodies of men through surgery and psychologica ...
The Progressive Movement, historically associated with left-wing politics, began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in cities with settlement workers and reformers who were interested in helpin ...
In Britain conservative ideas (though not yet called that) emerged in the Tory movement, during the English Restoration period (1660–1688). Toryism supported a hierarchical society with a monarch who ...
Ihab Hassan, theorist in the academic study of literature, once stated:“ Humanism may be coming to an end as humanism transforms itself into something one must helplessly call posthumanism. ”This vi ...
Abolitionism – ethical ideology based upon a perceived obligation to use technology to eliminate involuntary suffering in all sentient life.Democratic transhumanism – political ideology synthesizing ...
Zoltan Istvan is an American-Hungarian philosopher, journalist, entrepreneur, and futurist. He is best known as a leading transhumanist and the author of the controversial novel, The Transhumanist Wag ...
Sirius was a teenage Yippie activist in the early 1970s. He was the lead singer for Rochester, New York-based punk band Party Dogs from 1979 to 1981.1990s Sirius recruited Timothy Leary to be a contri ...
Hughes holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago, where he served as the assistant director of research for the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Before graduate school h ...
The main ideologies of the centre-left are social democracy, social liberalism, green politics, and sometimes democratic socialism (often seen as left-wing).Throughout the world, centre-left groups ge ...
In early 21st century political discourse in the United States, liberalism has come to include support for reproductive rights for women, including abortion, affirmative action for minority groups his ...
The non-aggression principle (NAP) is the foundation of most present-day right-libertarian philosophies. It is a moral stance which asserts that aggression is inherently illegitimate. NAP and property ...
Anders Sandberg (born July 11, 1972, in Solna, Sweden) is a researcher, science debater, futurist, transhumanist, and author. He holds a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from Stockholm University, ...
The intended effects of a policy vary widely according to the organization and the context in which they are made. Broadly, policies are typically instituted to avoid some negative effect that has bee ...
The classical model of scientific inquiry derives from Aristotle, who distinguished the forms of approximate and exact reasoning, set out the threefold scheme of abductive, deductive, and inductive in ...
