John Harris (bioethicist)

John Harris FMedSci FRSA FRSB
Harris in 2008
Born	(1945-08-21) 21 August 1945
Education	University of Kent (BA, 1966) Balliol College, Oxford (DPhil, 1976)
Known for	Survival lottery
Scientific career
Fields	Philosophy Ethics Bioethics
Institutions	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 Cordeiro de Chardin Drexler Fahy FM-2030 Freitas Fyodorov Fuller de Garis Gasson Goertzel de Grey Haldane Hanson Harari Harbisson Harris Huxley Hughes Istvan Johnson Kurzweil Land Moen Moravec More Musk Pearce Rothblatt Sandberg Savulescu Sorgner Spencer Stock Stolyarov Thiel Vinge Vita-More Walker Warwick Wiener Yudkowsky
Influential works The Dialectic of Sex (1970) Metaman (1993) The Hedonistic Imperative (1995) 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.