Erik Parens

Shaping Our Selves

On Technology, Flourishing, and a Habit of Thinking

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The bioethical debates between critics and enthusiasts about using technologies to shape our selves are sometimes acrimonious.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780190645892
• ISBN-10: 019064589X
• Artikelnr.: 47864312

Autorenporträt

Erik Parens is a senior research scholar at The Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute in Garrison, NY. He is also a member of the Center for Research on Ethical, Legal & Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic & Behavioral Genetics at Columbia University, and a Fellow of the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Seeing from Somewhere in Particular
Chapter 2: Embracing Binocularity
Chapter 3: Creativity and Gratitude
Chapter 4: Technology as Value-Free and as Value-Laden
Chapter 5: Nobody's against True Enhancement
Chapter 6: Comprehending Persons as Subjects and as Objects
Chapter 7: Respecting Persons as Subjects and as Objects
Closing Thoughts