John Harris (bioethicist)

John Harris
Harris in 2008
Born	(1945-08-21) 21 August 1945
Alma mater	University of Kent (undergraduate) Balliol College, Oxford (postgraduate)
Known for	Philosophy Ethics Bioethics
Awards	FMedSci FRSA
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Kent University of Oxford University of Manchester City of Birmingham Polytechnic Brunel University
Thesis	Violence and negative actions (1976)

Website	www.manchester.ac.uk/research/john.harris

Transhumanism

Issues Accelerating change Eradication of suffering Fourth Industrial Revolution Human enhancement Genetic Moral Neuro- Cognitive liberty New eugenics Eugenics Human nature Meliorism Post-politics Post-scarcity
People Andrews Bostrom Church José Luis Cordeiro Drexler Fahy FM-2030 Freitas Fyodorov Fuller de Garis Gasson Goertzel de Grey Haldane Hanson Harari Harbisson Harris Huxley Hughes Istvan Kurzweil Land Ole Martin Moen Hans Moravec More Elon Musk Osborn Pearce Martine Rothblatt Sandberg Savulescu Sorgner Spencer Stock Stolyarov Teilhard de Chardin Vernor Vinge Vita-More Mark Alan Walker Warwick Wiener Eliezer Yudkowsky
Influential works Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883) Looking Backward (1888) The Will to Power (~1901) Daedalus (1924) La raza cósmica (1925) The Phenomenon of Man (1955) The Dialectic of Sex (1970) Metaman (1993) The Hedonistic Imperative (1995) Regeln für den Menschenpark (1997) The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999) Citizen Cyborg (2004) The Singularity Is Near (2005) Human Enhancement (2009) Fanged Noumena (2011) The Transhumanist Wager (2013) Sapiens (2014) Homo Deus (2015) The Transhumanist Bill of Rights (2015) The Age of Em (2016) The Precipice (2020) What We Owe the Future (2022) "Techno-Optimist Manifesto" (2023)
Variants Accelerationism Effective Cypherpunk Dataism Extropianism Immortalism Longtermism Postgenderism Posthumanism Russian Cosmism Singularitarianism Technogaianism Technolibertarianism Technological utopianism Techno-progressivism
Related topics Dyson sphere Technologies Emerging Disruptive Hypothetical

John Morley Harris, FMedSci, FRSA, FRSB (born 21 August 1945), is a British bioethicist and philosopher. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manchester and founded the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation.