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Free Inquiry Devotes Entire Issue to Transhumanism

The latest issue of Free Inquiry magazine, published by the Council for Secular Humanism, has a cover title of “Upgrading Humanity: Are People Obsolete” and includes five articles on transhumanism.  Secular humanism is kind of like a bigger, older brother to the tranhumanist movement in the larger family of humanist movements. In the editorial “The New Perfectionism” the editor and philosopher Austin Dacey has both praise and some criticism for the transhumanist movement. One of the “weaknesses” of transhumanism is that it is a movement and not just a philosophy:

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