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Title: Ms. Job Title: Research Student Tel: 01392 725142 Fax: 01392 724676 Email: tmf204@exeter.ac.uk Building: Byrne House Room Number: FF10
Journal Articles
Franssen, T. M. (2000), ‘Het einde van de grote verhalen. Nou en…’ In: Filosofie Magazine, Vol 9, no. 7, pp. 44-47.
Franssen, T. M. (2006), ‘De eindeloze herhaling van het lijden’ In: Filosofie Magazine,Vol 15, no. 2, pp. 30-31.
Book Review
Franssen, T. M. (2010), Review of Cary Wolfe, What Is Posthumanism? In: Ethical Perspectives, Vol 17, no. 4. pp. 684-687.
Conference Presentations
‘Prometheus Redivivus: the Mythological Roots of Posthumanism’, Conference ‘Audiovisual Posthumanism: Aesthetics, Cultural Theory and the Arts’. University of the Aegean, Mytilini, 24-09-2010.
‘Prometheus Descends: Disabled or Enhanced?’ Conference ‘Good Life Better: Anthropological, Sociological and Philosophical Dimensions of Enhancement’. Institute for the History of Medicine and Science Studies (IMGWF), University of Lübeck, 14-10-2010.
In October 2009 I started my PhD at the University of Exeter under supervision of Professor John Dupré and Professor Michael Hauskeller. The project is funded by a three-year full studentship of the university's College of Social Sciences. My research project concentrates on the role of the ancient myth of Prometheus in today's debate on human enhancement and its relationship to normativity and arguments on human nature. Both advocates and opponents of human enhancement – by means of e.g. genetic engineering – make use of the myth to support their arguments. This way, the myth provides a magnificent viewpoint from which to analyse this debate while, on the other hand, it enables one to reflect upon the particular characteristics that make this myth so special and favoured in the history of philosophy in general.
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