Nanotechnology and Human Enhancement
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work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0621021. Any
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Additional support from:
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
Philosophy Department
Ethics Institute
All Sessions Located in Haldeman Building Room 125
Saturday April 14, 2007
8:30
AM Coffee and Welcome
Session 1
Moderator: Jim Moor, Dartmouth College
9:00 AM Fundamentals of Nanoscience
and Nanotechnology
Ursula
Gibson, Dartmouth College
10:00 AM Chemistry, Nanoscience and Medicine
Joseph
BelBruno,Dartmouth College
11:00 AM Break
11:15 AM Nanomedicine and Nanotoxicity
Ursula
Gibson, Dartmouth College
12:15 PM Nanotechnology in the Environment
Joseph
BelBruno, Dartmouth College
1:15 PM Lunch
Session 2
Moderator: Fritz Allhoff, Western Michigan University
2:00 PM Nanotechnological Improvements to Neurons: Exploring the
Possibilities
Nancy
Woolf, UCLA
3:00 PM Stage 2 Enhancements
George
Khushf, University of South Carolina
4:00 PM Break
4:15 PM How Not to Think About Radical Human Enhancement
Ronald
Sandler, Northeastern University
5:15 PM The Emerging Biopolitics of Enhancement
James
Hughes, Trinity College
6:15 PM Dinner (125 Haldeman)
Sunday April 15, 2007
8:30 AM Coffee
Session 3
Moderator: Pat Lin, Dartmouth College
9:00 AM Problematizing 'Enhancement'
Jason
Robert, Arizona State University
10:00 AM Human Enhancement's Flipside: Nanotechnology and the Blind
Chicken
Paul
Thompson, Michigan State University
11:00 AM Break
11:15 AM From Buzz Lightyear to Darth Vader: The Light Side and the Dark
Side of Converging Technologies?
Linda
MacDonald Glenn, Alden March Bioethics Institutte, Albany Medical Center
12:15 PM Nanotechnological Enhancements: Embrace, Reject, or
Regulate?
Wendell
Wallach, Yale University
1:15 PM Workshop Ends
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