Thomas Baldwin (philosopher)

Thomas R. Baldwin (born 1947) is a British philosopher and has been a professor of philosophy at the University of York since 1995. Quotes If you start putting very large numbers of human brain cells into primates, suddenly you might transform primates into something that has some of the capacities that we regard as distinctively human – speech or other ways of being able to manipulate or relate to a human. These possibilities, at the moment, are largely being explored in fiction but we need to start thinking about them now. As quoted in Medical research warning over human cells in animals by Alok Jha, 22 July 2011, The Guardian. External links Personal web page at Department of Philosophy, University of York Category:1947 births Category:Living people Category:Academics from England Category:Philosophers from England Category:People from York Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Educators from England Category:University of Cambridge alumni