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Michael Hauskeller (born 1964) is a German-British philosopher, author, and academic.^[1] He currently serves as a Professor of Philosophy and the Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.^[1] His primary research interests focus on practical philosophy, meta-ethics, applied ethics, the critique of transhumanist philosophies, human enhancement, and existential themes concerning the meaning of life and death.^[1][2] == Education and early career == Hauskeller was born in Mönchengladbach, Germany.^[3] He studied philosophy at the University of Bonn, completing his doctorate in 1994 under the supervision of Gernot Böhme at Technische Universität Darmstadt.^[3] He achieved his habilitation at Darmstadt in 2001.^[3] In 2003, Hauskeller relocated to the United Kingdom, where he joined the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter.^[4] He later served as an Associate Professor and Head of Department at Exeter before moving to the University of Liverpool in 2018 to take up his current position as Chair and Head of Philosophy.^[1][3] == Philosophical work == Hauskeller’s extensive publication history primarily investigates what constitutes human flourishing and the ethical boundaries of technological intervention. Since 2007, a major component of his research has targeted the philosophical assumptions of transhumanism.^[2] In works such as Better Humans? (2013) and Mythologies of Transhumanism (2016), he interrogates transhumanist goals like artificial self-design, radical life extension, and the total eradication of suffering, analyzing them from a skeptical standpoint that defends the intrinsic value of natural human vulnerability and limitation.^[2] His later work expanded into the existential dimensions of philosophy, focusing on the historical and contemporary analytical debates regarding the connection between human mortality and meaningfulness in life.^[5] == Selected bibliography == === Authored books === * Vom Jammer des Lebens: Einführung in Schopenhauers Ethik (C.H. Beck, 1998). ISBN 978-3406420740 * Versuch über die Grundlagen der Moral (C.H. Beck, 2001). ISBN 978-3406479786 * Ich denke, aber bin ich? Phantastische Reisen durch die Philosophie (C.H. Beck, 2003). ISBN 978-3406510700 * Mögliche Welten: neue phantastische Reisen durch die Philosophie (C.H. Beck, 2005). ISBN 978-3406528354 * Biotechnology and the Integrity of Life: Speculations on an Eco-Ethical Principle (Ashgate, 2007). ISBN 978-0754660446 * Was ist Kunst? Positionen der Ästhetik von Platon bis Danto (C.H. Beck, 2013). ISBN 978-3406653117 * Better Humans? Understanding the Enhancement Project (Acumen, 2013). ISBN 978-1844655571 * Sex and the Posthuman Condition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). ISBN 978-1137355843 * Mythologies of Transhumanism: Three Common Metaphors We Live By (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). ISBN 978-3319397405 * The Meaning of Life and Death: Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). ISBN 978-1350031333 * The Things That Really Matter: Philosophical Conversations on the Cornerstones of Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). ISBN 978-3031123900 * Meaning in Life: A Subjectivist Account (Routledge, 2025). ISBN 978-1032851044 * Dialogues on the Meaning of Life (Routledge, 2025). ISBN 978-1032851020 === Edited volumes === * The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television (Edited with T.D. Philbeck and C.D. Carbonell; Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). ISBN 978-1137430311 * Moral Enhancement: Critical Perspectives (Edited with L. Coyne; Cambridge University Press, 2018). ISBN 978-1108465052 * Death and Meaning (Routledge, 2021). ISBN 978-1032128719 == References ==