Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Forewords -- Science, Technology, and Democracy Michael M. Crow -- Recombinant Innovation Creative Hybrid Zones in the Adaptive University Quentin Wheeler -- New Perspectives on Transhumanism Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Kenneth L. Mossman -- Part I: Transhumanism and Religion -- Science and the Betterment of Humanity: Three British Prophets of Transhumanism Hava Tirosh-Samuelson -- Religion and the Technowonderland of Transhumanism Linell E. Cady -- Jewish Perspectives on Transhumanism Norbert Samuelson and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson -- Ideals of Human Perfection: A Comparison of Sufism and Transhumanism Farzad Mahootian -- Transhumanism and the Orthodox Christian Tradition Eugene Clay -- "The True Dreams of Mankind" Mircea Eliade's Transhumanist Fiction and the History of Religions Steven M. Wasserstrom -- Part II: The Promise and Perils of Human Enhancement -- What is Race?: Transhumanism and the Evolutionary Sciences Brian Gratton -- In Sickness and in Health: The (Fuzzy) Boundary between "Therapy" and "Enhancement" Kenneth L. Mossman -- The (In)Feasibility of Regulating Enhancement Gary E. Marchant and Alexandra López -- Transhumanism and the Human Person -- Part III: Transhumanism and the Human Person -- Transhumanist Materialism: A Critique from Immunoneuropsychology Steven A. Hoffman -- Being Human versus Being Transhuman: The Mind-Body Problem and Lived Experience Craig T. Nagoshi and Julie L. Nagoshi -- Prenatal Human Enhancement and Issues of Responsibility Michael J. White -- Neuroscience's Threat to Free Will Walter Glannon -- Transhumanism as a Futuristic Vision -- Part IV: Transhumanism as a Futuristic Vision -- The (Un)Likelihood of a High-Tech Path to Immortality Barry G. Ritchie -- Converging Technologies, Transhumanism, and Future Society Daniel Barben.

Transhumanism and Obligations to Future Generations Joan L. McGregor -- Against Species Extinction Transhumanism and Contemporary Technological Culture Jerry Coursen -- Technology and Transhumanism: Unpredictability, Radical Contingency, and Accelerating Change Braden Allenby -- Is Transhumanism Scientifically Plausible? Posthuman Predictions and the Human Predicament William J. Grassie -- Select Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index.