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NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA [12:30PM-01:00PM]
Title: The Ethics of Radical Life Extension and How to Change Attitudes
The general public is often quite hesitant to support radical life extension and the notion of biological immortality seems to frighten many. The resistance is often seemingly morally motivated. People worry about adverse social consequences of living longer, and see the search for a longer life as selfish and morally suspect. There is, as I have argued in my book The Case against Death, in fact a perennial philosophy of death-acceptance and even celebration of death, running alongside the human wish to transcend the naturally given limit to our life. In this talk I will describe this death-ist ideology and argue that morality is on the side of those who seek to expand the human life span by curing aging.
I will conclude with some suggestions of how to change attitudes towards antiaging medicine based on a review of the most important surveys of the public’s attitudes to radical life extension.
Patrick Linden author of The Case against Death (MIT Press 2022). Holds a PhD in philosophy. Taught at NYU for ten years.