• The Invention of Autonomy. A History of Modern Moral Philosophy (review)
    Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 53 (2). 1999.
  • Anthropologie und Ethik des Enhancements (review)
    Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 65 (2). 2011.
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    Review of Nicholas Agar, Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement (review)
    Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (11). 2005.
  • Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity (review)
    Ethical Perspectives 16 (1): 144-147. 2009.
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    Human Enhancement and the Giftedness of Life
    Philosophical Papers 40 (1): 55-79. 2011.
    Michael Sandel's opposition to the project of human enhancement is based on an argument that centres on the notion of giftedness. Sandel claims that by trying to ?make better people? we fall prey to, and encourage, an attitude of mastery and thus lose, or diminish, our appreciation of the giftedness of life. Sandel's position and the underlying argument have been much criticised. In this paper I will try to make sense of Sandel's reasoning and give an account of giftedness that defends its relev…Read more
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    Being Queasy about Reconstructing Animals
    Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 7 (1). 2005.
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    The Art of Misunderstanding Critics
    Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 25 (1): 153-161. 2016.
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    Nietzsche, the Overhuman and Posthuman
    Journal of Evolution and Technology 21 (1): 1. 2010.
    Sorgner (2009, 29) has argued that Bostrom (2005, 4) was wrong to maintain that there are only surface-level similarities between Nietzsche’s vision of the overman, or overhuman, and the transhumanist conception of the posthuman. Rather, he claims, the similarities are “significant” and can be found “on a fundamental level”. However, I think that Bostrom was in fact quite right to dismiss Nietzsche as a major inspiration for transhumanism. There may be some common ground, but there are also esse…Read more
  • Life extension and the ageing mind
    Ethical Perspectives 18 (3): 385-405. 2011.
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    Why Buridan’s Ass Doesn’t Starve
    Philosophy Now 81 9-9. 2010.
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    Erkenntnis und Wahrnehmung in Platons Dialog Theaitetos
    Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 23 (2): 167-180. 1998.
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    The “Little Alex” problem
    The Philosophers' Magazine 62 (62): 74-78. 2013.
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    Abschied vom unbewegten Beweger. Eine Begegnung mit Rudolf zur Lippe
    Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 27 (3): 257-264. 2002.
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    Rethinking Reprogenetics
    Hastings Center Report 47 (2): 50-51. 2017.
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    The question what makes us human is often treated as a question of fact. However, the term 'human' is not primarily used to refer to a particular kind of entity, but as a 'nomen dignitatis' -- a dignity-conferring name. It implies a particular moral status. That is what spawns endless debates about such issues as when human life begins and ends and whether human-animal chimeras are "partly human". Definitions of the human are inevitably "persuasive". They tell us about what is important and how …Read more
  • Handeln zugunsten anderer. Eine moralphilosophische Untersuchung (review)
    Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 56 (4). 2002.
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    The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television (edited book)
    with Thomas Drew Philbeck and Curtis D. Carbonell
    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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    Christian Illies: The Grounds of Ethical Judgement (review)
    Ethics 114 (4): 823-827. 2004.
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    The Authors Reply
    Hastings 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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    Indem dieser Band sich auf das Verhältnis von Naturerkennen und Natursein konzentriert, thematisiert er einen wesentlichen Ausschnitt aus dem weiten Spektrum von Böhmes philosophischer Arbeit. Um die Naturthematik möglichst breit zu entfalten und für Querverbindungen offenzuhalten, ist der vorliegende Band in drei Abschnitte gegliedert. Im ersten Abschnitt stehen Charakter und Reichweite der wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnis von Natur im Mittelpunkt. Der zweite Teil des Bandes stellt alternative Per…Read more