Melinda C. Hall, PhD

I’m looking forward to the panel on my book, The Bioethics of Enhancement, to be held this Saturday at philoSOPHIA in Boca Raton. Thanks to Shelley Tremain, who organized the panel, I’ve been lucky to receive incredible and helpful comments on my work and related issues from: Ladelle McWhorter, Jane Dryden, Catherine Clune-Taylor, and Shelley.…

Thanks to Luke Ford for interviewing me for the latest episode of Salt Talks. I had a great time discussing the theme of disability and gaming! We talked about the treatment of disability in games and some of the ways gaming is political and can have impacts on disability rights, inclusion, and exclusion. Check it out!

Thanks to Olga Khazan for interviewing me for her feature on radical longevity. She writes: Life-extensionists’ zeal for perfect cells does, to some, sound like an invective against uniqueness. That’s what Melinda Hall, a philosophy professor at Stetson University and author of a recent book about transhumanism, takes issue with. “People with disability are saying,…

Check out this forum, edited by Shelley Tremain, in which philosophers reflect on the Women’s March of January 21, 2017. I participated along with several others, including Megan Dean, Tempest Henning, Catherine Hundleby, Tracy Isaacs, Jason Burke Murphy, and Kevin Timpe. Please respond and comment!

A belated announcement of a very exciting achievement for Stetson University Honors students. Last semester, as co-directors of the Honors program, Michael Denner and I created an agreement with Stetson Law School that allows direct admission for Honors students. Check out the details in this Stetson Today report. In combination with our admissions agreement with Daytona…

I’m very glad to announce that there will be two panels this year on my recently-released book, The Bioethics of Enhancement (Lexington Books, 2016). Thanks to Shelley Tremain for organizing the panels, and to my colleagues for their willingness to respond to my work! I’m grateful for this opportunity to share my ideas. The first…

Today I am attending a workshop on adult and asynchronous learning. I’m preparing a course to be taken primarily online by adult learners in late 2017. I’m looking for information about how adult learners with disabilities fare in programs like this and how to prepare to serve disabled students in this context. So far, I’ve…

I am so thrilled that The Bioethics of Enhancement, published by Lexington Books, is nearly here!  You can pre-order the book at this link. 

I’m proud of the work I’ve done in the past year as co-director of the Stetson University Honors Program, along with my colleague Dr. Michael Denner. We’ve established a transfer articulation agreement with Daytona State College’s Quanta Honors Program in collaboration with head Dr. Maggie Karda. It’s innovative because it’s a program-to-program agreement, and the…

See here for Shelley Tremain’s post at Discrimination and Disadvantage, “The Biopolitics of Bioethics.” Her forthcoming book, Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, details the ways biopolitics and bioethics are intertwined in key bioethical debates. My book, The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics, which she links to in her post, treats these questions in regard to…