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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: xxi, 269 pagine ; 24 cmContent type:
  • testo (txt)
Media type:
  • senza mediazione (n)
Carrier type:
  • volume (nc)
ISBN:
  • 9780198754855 (hbk.)
  • 019875485X
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • QH 332.E73 2016
Contents:
Challenging human enhancement / Alberto Giubilini and Sagar Sanyal -- Section I. Understanding the debate. Reason, emotion, and morality : some cautions for the enhancement project / C. A. J. Coady ; Repugnance as performance error : the role of disgust in bioethical intuitions / Joshua May ; Reasons, reflection, and repugnance / Doug McConnell and Jeanette Kennett ; A natural alliance against a common foe? Opponents of enhancement and the social model of disability / Linda Barclay ; Playing God : What is the problem? / John Weckert ; Conservative and critical morality in debate about reproductive technologies / John McMillan ; Human enhancement : conceptual clarity and moral significance / Chris Gyngell and Michael J. Selgelid ; Human enhancement for whom? / Robert Sparrow -- Section II. Advancing the debate. Enhancing conservatism / Rebecca Roache and Julian Savulescu ; Maclntyre's paradox / Bernadette Tobin ; Partiality for humanity and enhancement / Jonathan Pugh, Guy Kahane, and Julian Savulescu ; Enhancement, mind-uploading, and personal identity / Nicholas Agar ; Levelling the playing field : on the alleged unfairness of the genetic lottery / Michael Hauskeller ; Buchanan and the conservative argument against human enhancement from biological and social harmony / Steve Clarke ; Moral enhancement, enhancement, and sentiment / Gregory E. Kaebnick ; The evolution of moral enhancement / Russell Powell and Allen Buchanan.
Summary: We humans can enhance some of our mental and physical abilities above the normal upper limits for our species with the use of particular drug therapies and medical procedures. We will be able to enhance many more of our abilities in more ways in the near future. Some commentators have welcomed the prospect of wide use of human enhancement technologies, while others have viewed it with alarm, and have made clear that they find human enhancement morally objectionable. 'The Ethics of Human Enhancement' examines whether the reactions can be supported by articulated philosophical reasoning, or perhaps explained in terms of psychological influences on moral reasoning. An international team of ethicists refresh the debate with new ideas and arguments, making connections with scientific research and with related issues in moral philosophy.
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Challenging human enhancement / Alberto Giubilini and Sagar Sanyal -- Section I. Understanding the debate. Reason, emotion, and morality : some cautions for the enhancement project / C. A. J. Coady ; Repugnance as performance error : the role of disgust in bioethical intuitions / Joshua May ; Reasons, reflection, and repugnance / Doug McConnell and Jeanette Kennett ; A natural alliance against a common foe? Opponents of enhancement and the social model of disability / Linda Barclay ; Playing God : What is the problem? / John Weckert ; Conservative and critical morality in debate about reproductive technologies / John McMillan ; Human enhancement : conceptual clarity and moral significance / Chris Gyngell and Michael J. Selgelid ; Human enhancement for whom? / Robert Sparrow -- Section II. Advancing the debate. Enhancing conservatism / Rebecca Roache and Julian Savulescu ; Maclntyre's paradox / Bernadette Tobin ; Partiality for humanity and enhancement / Jonathan Pugh, Guy Kahane, and Julian Savulescu ; Enhancement, mind-uploading, and personal identity / Nicholas Agar ; Levelling the playing field : on the alleged unfairness of the genetic lottery / Michael Hauskeller ; Buchanan and the conservative argument against human enhancement from biological and social harmony / Steve Clarke ; Moral enhancement, enhancement, and sentiment / Gregory E. Kaebnick ; The evolution of moral enhancement / Russell Powell and Allen Buchanan.

We humans can enhance some of our mental and physical abilities above the normal upper limits for our species with the use of particular drug therapies and medical procedures. We will be able to enhance many more of our abilities in more ways in the near future. Some commentators have welcomed the prospect of wide use of human enhancement technologies, while others have viewed it with alarm, and have made clear that they find human enhancement morally objectionable. 'The Ethics of Human Enhancement' examines whether the reactions can be supported by articulated philosophical reasoning, or perhaps explained in terms of psychological influences on moral reasoning. An international team of ethicists refresh the debate with new ideas and arguments, making connections with scientific research and with related issues in moral philosophy.