In Defense of Posthuman Vulnerability Liedo Fernández, Belén Rueda Etxebarria, Jon Care Enhancing vulnerability Human enhancement Posthuman Transhumanism Vulnerability We are indebted to Michael Hauskeller for his helpful remarks on a previous version of the manuscript. We also thank the comments made by Txetxu Ausin, Janet Delgado, Pablo Garcia-Barranquero, Francisco Lara, David Martin, Daniel Rueda, and the two anonymous reviewers of Scientia et Fides. Belen Liedo thanks the funding of the Spanish Ministry of Universities for the Training of University Professors (FPU), grant number: FPU19/06027. Jon Rueda thanks the funding of an INPhINIT Retaining Fellowship of the La Caixa Foundation (grant number LCF/BQ/DR20/11790005). Transhumanism is a challenging movement that invites us to rethink what defines humanity, including what we value and regret the most about our existence. Vulnerability is a key concept that require thorough philosophical scrutiny concerning transhumanist proposals. Vulnerability can refer to a universal condition of human life (ontological vulnerability) or, rather, to the specific exposure to certain harms due to particular situations (social vulnerability). Even if we are all vulnerable in the first sense, there are also different sources and levels of vulnerability depending on concrete social circumstances. Recently, Michael Hauskeller (2019) argued about a fundamental incompatibility between transhumanism and vulnerability. He understands vulnerability as an existential category, linked to woundability and mortality. This idea is akin to ontological vulnerability, but it does not notice some important features of social vulnerability. On the other side, transhumanism is a complex and non-homogeneous movement. Here we distinguish between a strong and a weak version of transhumanism. We will propose that the salience of vulnerability is only diminished in the radical one, while a moderate version can reconcile vulnerability with human enhancement. Thus, vulnerability, a concept that has recently gained much importance as an anthropological category in contemporary ethics, is not necessarily at odds with any transhumanist project. 2021-05-28T08:57:03Z 2021-05-28T08:57:03Z 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Liedo Fernandez, B., & Rueda, J. (2021). In defense of posthuman vulnerability. Scientia Et Fides, 9(1), 215-239. doi:[http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2021.008] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/68831 10.12775/SetF.2021.008 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-SinDerivadas 3.0 España Nicolaus Copernicus University