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32Forever Young? Life Extension and the Ageing MindEthical Perspectives 18 (3): 385-405. 2011.This paper argues that the goal the proponents of radical life extension wish to attain is in fact unattainable, and that with regard to this goal, the whole project of conquering ageing and death is therefore likely to fail. What we seek to achieve is not the prolongation of life as such, but rather the prolongation of a healthy and youthful life. Yet even though it may one day be possible to prevent the body from ageing beyond a certain stage , it may never be possible to arrest the ageing of …Read more
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31The Art of Misunderstanding CriticsCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 25 (1): 153-161. 2016.
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26The reification of lifeGenomics, Society and Policy 3 (2): 70-81. 2007.‘What’s wrong – fundamentally wrong – with the way animals are treated (…) isn’t the pain, the suffering, isn’t the deprivation. (…) The fundamental wrong is the system that allows us to view animals as our resources, here for us – to be eaten, or surgically manipulated, or exploited for sport or money.’\n\nTom Regan made this claim 20 years ago. What he maintains is basically that the fundamental wrong is not the suffering we inflict on animals but the way we look at them. What we do to them, w…Read more
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24Will Technology Help Us Transcend the Human Condition?The Philosophers' Magazine 79 74-78. 2017.
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24The Authors ReplyHastings Center Report 43 (1): 6-7. 2013.A reply by the author of “Reflections from a Troubled Stream: Giubilini and Minerva on ‘After‐Birth Abortion’” to “The Arguments Matter,” by Don Marquis, “The Importance of Rationality,” by G. Owen Schaeffer, and “Reasons and Freedom,” by Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva.
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23Illness as a Crisis of MeaningHastings Center Report 48 (4): 42-43. 2018.In Phenomenological Bioethics: Medical Technologies, Human Suffering, and the Meaning of Being Alive, the Swedish philosopher Fredrik Svenaeus aims to show how the continental tradition of phenomenology can enrich bioethical debates by adding important but often‐ignored perspectives, namely, that of lived experience. Phenomenology focuses not on supposedly objective, scientifically validated facts, but on the “life world” of the individuals affected by a situation. Individuals' life worlds consi…Read more
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22Human Enhancement and the Common GoodAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 1 (3): 37-39. 2010.
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21Pro-Enhancement EssentialismAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 2 (2): 45-47. 2011.While I agree in principle both with Banja's (2011) moral relativist claim that there are no absolute moral categories and with his anti-essentialist position (Hauskeller 2009b), it seems to me tha...
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20Moral Enhancement: Critical Perspectives (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2018.The papers collected in this volume examine moral enhancement: the idea that we should morally improve people through the manipulation of their biological constitution. Whether moral enhancement is possible or even desirable is highly controversial. Proponents argue that it is necessary if we are to address various social ills and avert catastrophic climate change. Detractors have raised a variety of concerns, some of a practical nature and others of principle. Perhaps most fundamentally, howeve…Read more
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19The meaning of life and death: ten classic thinkers on the ultimate questionBloomsbury Academic. 2019.The worst of all possible worlds: Arthur Schopenhauer -- The despair of not being oneself: Soren Kierkegaard -- The interlinked terrors and wonders of God: Herman Melville -- The hell of no longer being able to love: Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The inevitable end of everything: Leo Tolstoy -- The joy of living dangerously: Friedrich Nietzsche -- The dramatic richness of the concrete world: William James -- The only life that is really lived: Marcel Proust -- Our hopeless battle against the boundaries …Read more
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19The Things That Really Matter: Philosophical Conversations on the Cornerstones of Life (edited book)UCL Press. 2022.
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14“Something that matters”: the Religious Dimension of Moral ExperienceRevista de Filosofia Aurora 29 (46): 335. 2017.Written from a broadly atheist point of view, this paper explores the religious dimension of moral experience, that is, whether in order to be moral and/or to live a life that in our own eyes means something it is necessary to believe in something that transcends what we can verify through science or direct observation and even what we can clearly articulate. I investigate the question through an interpretation of the work of four very different writers, namely Hans Jonas, Alfred North Whitehead…Read more
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149. Schopenhauers LeidensethikIn Matthias Koßler & Oliver Hallich (eds.), Arthur Schopenhauer: Die Welt Als Wille Und Vorstellung, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. pp. 137-152. 2014.
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12Being Queasy about Reconstructing AnimalsAustralian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 7 (1). 2005.
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11Better Humans?: Understanding the Enhancement ProjectRoutledge. 2013.Developments in medical science have afforded us the opportunity to improve and enhance the human species in ways unthinkable to previous generations. Whether it's making changes to mitochondrial DNA in a human egg, being prescribed Prozac, or having a facelift, our desire to live longer, feel better and look good has presented philosophers, medical practitioners and policy-makers with considerable ethical challenges. But what exactly constitutes human improvement? What do we mean when we talk o…Read more
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10The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television (edited book)Palgrave. 2015.In an age characterised by an increasing integration of advanced technology into our everyday lives, posthumanism has developed into a major intellectual force. It affects research agendas, economic developments, social policies, philosophical theories, and ultimately the way we understand ourselves. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the various aspects of posthumanism and how they are represented, discussed and exemplified in the cultural medium of film and television. Understo…Read more
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7Erkenntnis und Wahrnehmung in Platons Dialog TheaitetosAllgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 23 (2): 167-180. 1998.
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7Abschied vom unbewegten Beweger. Eine Begegnung mit Rudolf zur LippeAllgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 27 (3): 257-264. 2002.
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6Genetic engineering is still considered morally wrong by a large proportion of the public. Yet many scientists are puzzled about the public concern over a technology that, in their view, promises great benefits to humans and does not seem to cause more harm to animals than other practices which are rarely questioned. In this book, Michael Hauskeller takes public fears seriously and offers the idea of 'biological integrity' as a clarifying principle which can then be analyzed to show that seeming…Read more
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6Die Ökonomisierung des guten LebensIn Gerald Hartung & Matthias Herrgen (eds.), Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie: Jahrbuch 5/2017: Lebensspanne 2.0, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 57-64. 2017.Alle klagen ständig darüber, dass sie keine Zeit hätten. Keine Zeit für dies, keine Zeit für jenes. Gewöhnlich ist das, weil wir mit anderen Dingen beschäftigt sind, die unsere ganze Zeit ausfüllen. Daran ließe sich im Prinzip etwas ändern. Wir bräuchten nur unsere Prioritäten zu ändern.