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'''Mark Alan Walker''' is a Professor of Philosophy at New Mexico State University, where he occupies the Richard L. Hedden Endowed Chair in Advanced Philosophical Studies. Prior to his professorship at NMSU Prof. Walker taught at McMaster University in the department of philosophy and the Arts & Science Program. He is the author of ''Happy-People Pills for All'' (Oxford: Blackwell Press, 2013). Walker founded and was president of the former nonprofit organization [http://www.wiserearth.org/organization/view/d0e7a7f9ad2520117b5c83db30f1b625 Permanent End International] (2003–2007), which had been devoted to ending hunger, illiteracy and environmental degradation through the dissemination of modular aquaponics systems for farming. He serves on the editorial board of the [[Journal of Evolution and Technology]] and on the board of directors of the [[Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies]].<ref>Diane Relke, ''Drones, Clines and Alpha Babes: Retrofitting Star Trek's Humanism, Post 9/11'' (University of Calgary Press, 2006), p. 92.</ref> He is a former board member of the non-profit organization [[Humanity+|Humanity Plus]] (formerly World Transhumanist Association).

Prof. Walker is a consequentialist who argues that humans have a responsibility to perfect themselves in the realm of morality and virtue.<ref>[[James Hughes]], ''[[Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future]].'' (Westview Press, 2004), pp. 256-7.</ref> He has written extensively about the ethics of using technology to enhance human capabilities (including advocacy of superlongevity and [[biohappiness]]);<ref>Charles Tandy, ''Death and Anti-Death, Volume 3: Fifty Years after Einstein, One Hundred Fifty Years after Kierkegaard.'' (Palo Alto: Ria University Press, 2005), pp. 347-374.</ref><ref>[[Nicholas Agar]], ''Liberal Eugenics: In Defense of Human Enhancement'' (Oxford: Blackwell Press, 2004), p. 16, 142.</ref> about the possibility of [[Moral bioenhancement | enhancing virtue]] genetically, through both genetic modification and the cultivation of humans with larger brains and a better understanding of moral reasoning;<ref>[[Bill McKibben]], ''Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age.'' (New York: Times, Books, 2004), p. 255-6.</ref> and about the moral obligations that humans may have toward artificially intelligent beings in the future. He also co-authored an influential piece about the nexus between [[transhumanism]] and religion, with [[Heidi A Campbell|Heidi Campbell]].<ref>[[Ted Peters (theologian)|Ted Peters]], "Perfect Humans or Trans-humans?" in [[Celia Deane-Drummond]] and Peter Scott, eds., ''Future Perfect?'' (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006), pp. 18, 21.</ref>