Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research An examination of a decade and a half of political controversy, ethical debate, and scientific progress in stem cell research.



“This ground-breaking examination of the American stem cell debates presents a powerful call for high levels of ethicality in the life sciences. Complex and thought-provoking, Good Science is a tour de force by one of the leading feminist technoscience scholars of our times.”

—Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale University



"Bravo! A very important book... Thompson reveals how important relations among stem cell researchers, their many publics, sponsors, users and research materials must grow and change to address the next generation of scientific potentialities and the complexities of traveling transnationally. Must reading for all of us."

—Adele E. Clarke, University of California, San Francisco Subjective Time: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Temporality Interdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time.



Our awareness of time and temporal properties is a constant feature of conscious life. Subjective temporality structures and guides every aspect of behavior and cognition, distinguishing memory, perception, and anticipation. This milestone volume brings together research on temporality from leading scholars in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, defining a new field of interdisciplinary research.



Contributors:

Melissa J. Allman, Holly Andersen, Valtteri Arstila, Yan Bao, Dean V. Buonomano, Niko A. Busch, Barry Dainton, Sylvie Droit-Volet, Christine M. Falter, Thomas Fraps, Shaun Gallagher, Alex O. Holcombe, Edmund Husserl, William James, Piotr Jaśkowski, Jeremie Jozefowiez, Ryota Kanai, Allison N. Kurti, Dan Lloyd, Armando Machado, Matthew S. Matell, Warren H. Meck, James Mensch, Bruno Mölder, Catharine Montgomery, Konstantinos Moutoussis, Peter Naish, Valdas Noreika, Sukhvinder S. Obhi, Ruth Ogden, Alan o’Donoghue, Georgios Papadelis, Ian B. Phillips, Ernst Pöppel, John E. R. Staddon, Dale N. Swanton, Rufin VanRullen, Argiro Vatakis, Till M. Wagner, John Wearden, Marc Wittmann, Agnieszka Wykowska, Kielan Yarrow, Bin Yin, Dan Zahavi Truly Human Enhancement: A Philosophical Defense of Limits A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings.



"Debates over human enhancement too often pit equally simplistic enhancement enthusiasts and enhancement luddites against one another. Agar takes us beyond this kind of futile debate, into the difficult questions concerning which enhancements are worth pursuing and on what grounds..."

—Neil Levy, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne



"...The broad examples that [Agar] gives include the following: Imagine giving humans the strength and endurance to run a marathon in fifteen minutes. Imagine giving humans the ability to live a thousand years. Imagine giving humans intellectual abilities that were a thousand times faster, more accurate, more insightful, and more creative than any human is capable of now. Imagine enhancing human moral capacities to such an extent that such individuals would have to be regarded as having superior moral status as 'post-persons.' That is, they were beyond weakness of will and moral mistakes, not to mention outrageous immoral cruelty. Agar wants to reject all these things as desirable future states of affairs if they are achieved through some form of radical enhancement."

—Leonard M. Fleck, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews The Feeling Body: Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to issues in affective science.



“Bodily affect, in a sense that goes deeper than basic emotions, has been underplayed in emotion theory and even in some of the most embodied approaches to cognition. Colombetti does a great service in exploring the dynamics of the affective life, gathering together empirical and theoretical perspectives to show that enactive theories need to be even more embodied than they are usually construed to be.”

—Shaun Gallagher, Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy, University of Memphis