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Jacob Stegenga
A philosopher of science and medicine at the University of Cambridge, Stegenga is the author of Medical Nihilism published by the OUP.

A philosopher of science and medicine at the University of Cambridge, Stegenga is the author of Medical Nihilism published by the OUP.
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Brave New Horizon
Where will technology lead the human race?

The Immortal Now
Can philosophy teach us how to die?

Emperor's New Genes
Are genes not the blueprint for life we imagined?

What happens to our bodies when we die?
Biologist Brooke Magnati reveals the secrets of decay

The Evolution of Desire
Do genetics explain all of human nature?

Defeating Aging
Do you want to live forever?

The New Bodies
Transhumanism: Rise of the Cyborgs

Orgasmatron
What can MRI scans of brains in orgasm tell us?

After Darwin
Is the age of selfish gene theory over?

Are Doctors Bad For Us?
Medicine, trust, and power

The Illusion of Race
How do we move on from race?

After Evolution
Is culture beyond genetics?

Doctors in the Age of Google
Is it time to rid ourselves of medical authority?

The Evolution of Suicide
Nicholas Humphrey | Self-killing's genetic history

Doctors and the Danger Industry
Can big data improve the effectiveness of drugs?

Life On The Edge
How can we halt society's existential crises?

Overcoming death
Does fearing death prevent us from fully living?

Why We Are Who We Are
The epigenetic revolution

Planet of the Clones
Should we clone human beings?

The Uniqueness of Humanity
Is evolution progress?

Genes, Cells, and Brains
Taking on the bioscience industry

A Paradigm of Health
What are the limits of western medicine?

The Naked Truth
How does the body in art relate to physical-being? Is nudity ever more than a sales tactic?

Cyborg Future
Microprocessors & nano-robots in the human body

Inside the Mind’s Eye

The Solitary Self - Darwin and the Selfish Gene

Your Life in the Balance
Should we trust doctors less than we do?

Documenting Death
Whose death is worth recording? | Brooke Magnanti

Docs in the Dock
What can we do about medical errors?

Are Hospitals Bad For Us?
Social justice impacts our health more than medicine

Why Genes Are Not Selfish and People Are Nice
Neoliberalism makes for crude science

Morality, Hypocrisy and Health
Drugs and Western imperialism

Sex, Science, and Stereotypes
Why women have evolved differently from men

How Science Tells Us Who We Are
George Ellis | Nature vs nurture

Designing Life

How to Live Forever
A future without morality

Medicine's Mistakes
Should we distrust medicine?

Meat, Metal, Code

Human and Superhuman
Is the pursuit of eternal youth fair on the young?

Should We Change Our Genes?
Is ‘gene-doping’ a threat to humanity?

The Mystery of Life
If we find extraterrestrial life, will we recognise it as life at all?

Stem Cells and the Future of Medicine
Can stem cells ethically transform medicine?

Trust Me, I'm Google
Medicine in a digital age

The medicine myth
The failure of medicalising philosophy

The agents of life
Should we abandon the idea of individual organisms

How we became who we are
Politics in the nature vs nurture debate

Extra-terrestrial life
Are we the sharpest cookie in the jar?

The virus vs lockdown
Will we be on the right side of history?

The origin of life
The mystery of life's beginning

The pattern seekers
Why can humans alone invent?
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Simple solutions, dangerous realities

Beyond Kuhn and Feyerabend

Why evidence won't change your convictions

Our touching faith in numbers

The myth of pure science

The irrationality of transhumanists

Towards a new Enlightenment

The problem with the Nobel Prize

What is this thing called pseudoscience?

10 questions ignored by philosophy

The universe is neither clockwork nor alive

Thomas Kuhn and why radicals need tradition

Leibniz and the Miracle Creed Behind Modern Physics

Whether lockdowns were successful remains a mystery

The quantum wave function isn't real

Medicine's bad philosophy threatens your health

Bruno Latour: The Delusions of Modernity

Physics can't deal with reality's complexity

Carl Sagan was wrong: ordinary evidence is enough

Science is a kind of magic

The truths in physics are dependent on falsehoods

Reality has no ultimate building blocks

In bed with the enemy: how to fix science

The laws of nature explain very little

The problem with emergence

The divide between art and science is a mistake

Philosophy needs a Renaissance

11 philosophers you don't know about, but should

Hossenfelder vs Goff: Do electrons exist?

The Values Fix