Russell Blackford

I am a philosopher, legal scholar, and literary critic - and sometimes a creative writer.

My books include:

* STRANGE CONSTELLATIONS: A HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION (Greenwood Press, 1999; co-authored with Van Ikin and Sean McMullen).

* 50 VOICES OF DISBELIEF: WHY WE ARE ATHEISTS (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009; co-edited with Udo Schuklenk).

* FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND THE SECULAR STATE (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).

* 50 GREAT MYTHS ABOUT ATHEISM (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013; co-authored with Udo Schuklenk).

* HUMANITY ENHANCED: GENETIC CHOICE AND THE CHALLENGE FOR LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES (MIT Press, 2014).

* INTELLIGENCE UNBOUND: THE FUTURE OF UPLOADED AND MACHINE MINDS (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014; co-edited with Damien Broderick).

* THE MYSTERY OF MORAL AUTHORITY (Palgrave, 2016).

* PHILOSOPHY'S FUTURE: THE PROBLEM OF PHILOSOPHICAL PROGRESS (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017; co-edited with Damien Broderick).

* SCIENCE FICTION AND THE MORAL IMAGINATION: VISIONS, MINDS, ETHICS (Springer, 2017).

* THE TYRANNY OF OPINION: CONFORMITY AND THE FUTURE OF LIBERALISM (Bloomsbury, 2019).

* AT THE DAWN OF A GREAT TRANSITION: THE QUESTION OF RADICAL ENHANCEMENT (Schwabe Verlag, 2021).

I am a prolific essayist and commentator with interests including legal, moral, and political philosophy; philosophical bioethics; philosophy of religion; and debates involving visions of the human future.