Sociology and Philosophy
Professor Michael Hauskeller
Research Interests
- Transhumanism
- Metaethics: the grounds of morality
- The interrelation between aesthetics and morality
- Allegedly "irrational” moral concerns
- Moral concerns related to biotechnology
- Philosophy of art and beauty
- Scepticism and Common Sense
Research projects:
completed: The Integrity of Living Beings as a Normative Concept
in progress: Transhumanism and the Call for Human Enhancement
Research Supervision
- Transhumanism and human enhancement
- Moral concerns about the use of biotechnology
- Morality and the emotions
- Mythology and philosophical argument
- Narratives of the human
- Philosophical investigations into human nature
- Utopias and utopian aspects in philosophical thought
Research Students
Rishad Motlani: How Religious and Cultural Influences Shape Medical Practice (completed 2011)
Trijsje Franssen: Contemporary Philosophical and Literary Images of the Human: Prometheus and Human Enhancement
Ann-Sophie Barwich: A Defence of Promiscuous Realism
James Watson: Posthuman Dignity
