Nicholas Agar

Associate Professor and Head of Programme
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.

Current Teaching

PHIL 202/302 - ETHICS

Selected Publications

Books

Liberal Eugenics (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming)

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.