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Professor Savulescu is the Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics at the National University of Singapore, where he directs the Centre for Biomedical Ethics. An award-winning ethicist and moral philosopher, he trained in neuroscience, medicine, and philosophy, going on to hold the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford from 2002, where he founded the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics in 2003, before moving to NUS in 2022.
Website: https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/cbme/people_uri/julian-ssavulescu/
Summary:
In this interview, we discuss the concept of human enhancement and its ethical implications. Julian Savulescu is known to be in favor of enhancing our capacities because he believes it can increase our well-being. He finds increasing our health span to be particularly important. We also discuss the relationship between human enhancement and disability. Savulescu states that while it is true that much of the disadvantage that people with disabilities experience is due to a lack of accommodations, some disabilities still lower human well-being. Relatedly, Savulescu says that his proposal is in some sense eugenics but not like the eugenics of the past.
