Nicholas Agar

Dialogues on Human Enhancement (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

We face an emerging range of technologies that can be applied to our human natures with the goal of enhancing us. These fictional dialogues between a proponent, opponent, moderate, and supervising philosopher explore the issues that arise.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000931051
• Artikelnr.: 68461200

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Agar is Professor of Ethics at the University of Waikato in Aotearoa, New Zealand. He has written extensively on the philosophical debate about human enhancement including three books on the topic - Liberal Eugenics (2004), Humanity's End (2010), and Truly Human Enhancement (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Night 1: What should we say about gene-edited twins who may have been
enhanced? Night 2: Enhancement technologies, doping athletes, and the
meaning of human enhancement Night 3: From Francis Galton's eugenics to
liberal eugenics Night 4: Radical versus moderate enhancement and cognition
Night 5: SENS and radical life extension Night 6: Enhanced moods and
morality Night 7: How do we decide which aspects of human nature to
preserve? Night 8: A species relativist rejection of radical enhancement
Night 9: Three contrasting nightmares about the Age of Human Enhancement