Event Detail

Mon Apr 13, 2026
Howison Library, Philosophy Hall
4–6 PM
Townsend Visitor
Ray Briggs (University of Chicago)
Toward an Ethics of Body Modification

I lay out an overarching plan for a new project exploring the ethics of body modification. I characterize a fundamental predicament that body modification aims to solve, explain what I find inadequate about views with a strong presumption against body modification, and lay out values that I think will prove helpful in navigating the ethics of body modification.