Peter Derkx

Day: Saturday, April 23
Hour: 12:30 - 1:00 pm
Presentation: Ethical Aspects of Engineering Prolongevity

Peter Derkx is a professor of Humanism and Worldviews at the University for Humanistics (Universiteit voor Humanistiek) at Utrecht in The Netherlands. His main fields of interest are the theory of humanism as a worldview, and science, technology and meanings of life. He is the head of the research program "Towards a 'lingua democratica' for the debate on genomics" and his own research focuses on a humanist view of genetic enhancement of human embryos.