The ethics of human enhancement: understanding the debate

by Clarke, Steve Coady, C. A. J. Giubilini, Alberto Sanyal, Sagar Savulescu, Julian

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An international team of ethicists refresh the debate about human enhancement by examining whether resistance to the use of technology to enhance our mental and physical capabilities can be supported by articulated philosophical reasoning, or explained away, e.g. in terms of psychological influences on moral reasoning.

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Full title :The ethics of human enhancement : understanding the debate / edited by Steve Clarke, Julian Savulescu, C.A.J. Coady, Alberto Giubilini, and Sagar Sanyal.

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Publication Date:2016.

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9780191070976, 0191070971, 9780191816352, 0191816353
oclc:ocn960210112
LC Classification:BJ1360
Dewey Decimal:144

Cover; The Ethics of Human Enhancement: Understanding the Debate; Copyright; Preface; References; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1: Challenging Human Enhancement; 1.1 Human Enhancement: Mapping the Terrain; 1.2 Conservatism: from the French Revolution to the Biotechnology Revolution; 1.3 Instrumentalist versus Substantive Bioethics; 1.4 Playing God; 1.5 The Wisdom of Intuitions and Emotions; 1.5.1 Intuition, Emotion, and Mystery; 1.5.1.1 Appeals to Literature; 1.6 Human Dignity and Human Nature in the Enhancement Debate; 1.6.1 Dignity of Human Nature; 1.6.2 Foundations of Human Dignity.

1.6.3 Views on Human Dignity among Proponents of Human Enhancement1.7 Restrictive (Non-conservative) Positions on Human Enhancement; 1.7.1 Egalitarian Concerns; 1.7.2 Utilitarian Concerns; 1.7.3 Balancing Principles; 1.7.4 Autonomy and Moral Equality; 1.7.5 Unintended Bad Consequences and Futility; 1.7.6 The Old Eugenics and the New; 1.8 The Affective Revolution in Moral Psychology and the Conservative/Liberal Divide; 1.8.1 Relevant Evidence from Moral Psychology and Neuroscience; 1.8.2 Possible Objections; References; Section I: Understanding the Debate.

2: Reason, Emotion, and Morality: Some …

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Biomedical Enhancement Biotechnology -- ethics Enhancement Ethics ethics (philosophy) Genetic Engineering -- ethics Humanistic ethics Morale Morale humaniste PHILOSOPHY -- Movements Progrès médical