Dr Nick Agar
Associate Professor,
School of History Philosophy Political Science and International Relations
Phone: 04 463 5046
Email: address
Street Address: Room 601, Murphy Building, Kelburn Pde, Kelburn Campus
Nearest Fax: 04 463 5130
Currently Teaching
PHIL 361 - Ethics and Politics: Bioethics
Course Coordinator
PHIL 404 - Value Theory
Course Coordinator
POLS 361 - Ethics and Politics: Bioethics
Instructor
Qualifications
BA (Auck)
MA (VUW)
PhD (ANU)
Profile
Nick Agar has an MA from VUW and a PhD from the ANU. He has been teaching at VUW since 1996.
Research Areas
Nick Agar’s main research interests are in the ethics of the new genetics. He has also published on personal identity, environmental ethics, and the philosophy of mind.
Selected Publications
Books
Humanity's End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2010)
Liberal Eugenics (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004)
Perfect Copy (Cambridge: Icon, 2002)
Life’s Intrinsic Value (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001)
Articles
“Functionalism and Personal Identity” Nous 37(2003): 52-70.
“Cloning and Identity” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 28 (2003): 9-26.