"The Adaptable Human Body: Transhumanism and Bioethics in the 21st
Century"
June
27-29, 2003
Luce
Hall, Yale University
New Haven, CT USA
SPEAKERS
Partial List
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TV2003USA is co-sponsored by the World
Transhumanist Association and the
Yale
Interdisciplinary Bioethics Program Working Research Group on Technology
and Ethics.
Media Sponsors
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DEBATE
"Should Humans Welcome or Resist Becoming
Posthuman?"
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George
Annas J.D.
Director, Health Law, Boston University |
Greg
Stock Ph.D.
author of
Redesigning
Humans |
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
“Why
Not Re-Invent Humans?
Is This The Best We Can Do?”
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CLOSING
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
“Who's Afraid of PostHumanity?:
The Politics and Ethics of Genetically Engineering People”
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Greg
Pence Ph.D.
author of Whose
Afraid of Human Cloning? |
Ron
Bailey
science correspondent for Reason
Magazine
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Other speakers at TV03USA
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| Alice
Dreger Ph.D. author Hermaphrodites
and the Medical Invention of Sex
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Douglas
Mulhall
author of Our
Molecular Future |
Ramez
Naam
CEO of Apex
Nanotechnologies |
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Austin
Dacey
Editor Philo,
philosophical journal of the
Center for Inquiry |
Munawar
Anees Ph.D.
Author of Islam and Biological
Futures: Ethics, Gender and Technology
Founder of "Periodica
Islamica" |
Natasha
Vita-More
President,
Extropy Institute
Founder, Transhumanist Arts
& Culture |
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William
Sims Bainbridge Ph.D.
Deputy Director, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems,
National Science Foundation |
Dorothy
Wertz Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts |
Nick
Bostrom Ph.D.
Oxford University,
Chair of the World Transhumanist Association,
author of Anthropic
Bias |
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William
Grey Ph.D.
Philosophy, University of Queensland, Australia |
David
Wasserman J.D.
Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Univ. of Maryland |
Vanessa
Edwards Foster
chair, National
Transgender Advocacy Coalition |
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Daniel
Kevles Ph.D.
Dept. of History,
Yale University |
Miller
Brown Ph.D.
Dean of the Faculty
Trinity College |
Evelyne
Shuster, Ph.D.
Philosophy in Psychiatry, U. of Pennsylvania
Human Rights & Ethics Program, Veterans Affairs Medical Center |
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Jose
Cordeiro
President, Sociedad Mundial del Futuro Venezuela, and author of The
Great Taboo
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Wrye
Sententia
co-Director of the
Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics |
Anita
Silvers Ph.D.
Philosophy Dept.
San Francisco State University |
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James
Hughes Ph.D.
Public Policy Studies, Trinity College, Hartford CT USA
Producer, Changesurfer
Radio
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Stuart
Hameroff M.D.
"Quantum Consciousness,
AI Debunker,
Anesthesiologist"
U. of Arizona Center for Consciousness Studies
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Linda
MacDonald Glenn LLM
Senior Fellow,
Institute for Ethics,
American Medical Association
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Leslie
Francis Ph.D., J.D.
College of Law, University of Utah |
John
Davis, J.D. Ph.D.
Medical Humanities, Brody School of Medicine |
Robin
Hanson Ph.D.
Dept. of Economics
George Mason University |
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Barbara
Gibson
Dept. of Physical Therapy
University of Toronto
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Aubrey
de Grey Ph.D.
Univ. of Cambridge
author The
Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging |
Rafal
Smigrodski M.D.,Ph.D.
Dept. of Neurology, Univ. of Virginia |
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Mike
Treder
Director,
Centerl for Responsible
Nanotechnology |
George
Dvorsky
author of Transitory
Human column |
William
A. Edmundson J.D., Ph.D.
Prof. of Phil. and Law,
Author, An
Introduction to Rights |
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Patrick
Hopkins Ph.D.
Prof. of Bioethics,
Millsaps College |
Ben
Hijink
Midwest
Organizer
World Transhumanist Association |
David
Donnelly Ph.D.
Associate Dean,
Quinnipiac University |
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Susantha
Goonatilake Ph.D.
New School of Social Research
author of Merged Evolution: Long-Term Implications of Biotechnology
& Information Technology |
Hatuna
Pokrovskaia
founder and president, Colleges Against Cancer NYU chapter |
Anatoly
Nichvoloda
contributing writer, Internatura thinktank
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Steve
Mann
University of Toronto
inventor of WearComp |
David
Calverley J.D.
Author "Artificial Intelligence as a Legal Entity" |
Sebastian
Sethe
Institute
for Biotechnological Law and Ethics
University of Sheffield |
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Lanfranco
Aceti
Central Saint Martins
College of Art and Design (UK) |
Wendell
Wallach
machine ethics theorist
Vice Pres. of Operations, SYNNAP |
Eliezer
Yudkowsky
Research fellow at the Singularity
Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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Tyler
Emerson
Singularity Institute for
Artificial Intelligence |
John
Smart
Chair, Institute
for Accelerating Change |
Iain
McKenna
Dept. Philosophy
Concordia University |
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Simon
Smith
Editor Betterhumans magazine |
Andrew
Zolli
futurist consultant
Z+ Partners |
Michael
Anissimov
co-Director, Immortality
Institute for Infinite Lifespans |
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Anders
Sandberg Ph.D.
Co-founder Swedish
Transhumanist Association and Tankesmedjan
Eudoxa AB
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