Russell Blackford
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Russell Blackford

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I am a philosopher, legal scholar, and literary critic - and sometimes a creative writer. My books include: * STRANGE CONSTELLATIONS: A HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION (Greenwood Press, 1999; co-authored with Van Ikin and Sean McMullen). * 50 VOICES OF DISBELIEF: WHY WE ARE ATHEISTS (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009; co-edited with Udo Schuklenk). * FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND THE SECULAR STATE (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). * 50 GREAT MYTHS ABOUT ATHEISM (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013; co-authored with Udo Schuklenk). * HUMANITY ENHANCED: GENETIC CHOICE AND THE CHALLENGE FOR LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES (MIT Press, 2014). * INTELLIGENCE UNBOUND: THE FUTURE OF UPLOADED AND MACHINE MINDS (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014; co-edited with Damien Broderick). * THE MYSTERY OF MORAL AUTHORITY (Palgrave, 2016). * PHILOSOPHY'S FUTURE: THE PROBLEM OF PHILOSOPHICAL PROGRESS (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017; co-edited with Damien Broderick). * SCIENCE FICTION AND THE MORAL IMAGINATION: VISIONS, MINDS, ETHICS (Springer, 2017). * THE TYRANNY OF OPINION: CONFORMITY AND THE FUTURE OF LIBERALISM (Bloomsbury, 2019). * AT THE DAWN OF A GREAT TRANSITION: THE QUESTION OF RADICAL ENHANCEMENT (Schwabe Verlag, 2021). I am a prolific essayist and commentator with interests including legal, moral, and political philosophy; philosophical bioethics; philosophy of religion; and debates involving visions of the human future.
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