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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bioethics.
- Biotechnology--Philosophy.
- Biotechnology.
- Genetic engineering--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Genetic engineering.
- Biotechnology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Humanistic ethics--History.
- Humanistic ethics.
- Ethics.
- Biomedical Enhancement.
- Genetic Engineering--ethics.
- Biotechnology--ethics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Biomedical Enhancement.
- Genetic Engineering--ethics.
- Biotechnology--ethics.
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 269 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Understanding the debate
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Challenging Human Enhancement / Alberto Giubilini and Sagar Sanyal
- Section I Understanding the Debate
- 2 Reason, Emotion, and Morality / C. A. J. Coady
- 3 Repugnance as Performance Error / Joshua May
- 4 Reasons, Reflection, and Repugnance / Doug McConnell and Jeanette Kennett
- 5 A Natural Alliance against a Common Foe? Opponents of Enhancement and the Social Model of Disability / Linda Barclay
- 6 Playing GodJohn Weckert
- 7 Conservative and Critical Morality in Debate about Reproductive Technologies / John McMillan
- 8 Human Enhancement: Conceptual Clarity and Moral Significance / Chris Gyngell and Michael J. Selgelid
- 9 Human Enhancement for Whom? / Robert Sparrow
- Section II Advancing the Debate
- 10 Enhancing Conservatism / Rebecca Roache and Julian Savulescu
- 11 MacIntyre’s Paradox / Bernadette Tobin
- 12 Partiality for Humanity and Enhancement / Jonathan Pugh, Guy Kahane, and Julian Savulescu
- 13 Enhancement, Mind-Uploading, and Personal Identity / Nicholas Agar
- 14 Levelling the Playing Field / Michael Hauskeller
- 15 Buchanan and the Conservative Argument against Human Enhancement from Biological and Social Harmony / Steve Clarke
- 16 Moral Enhancement, Enhancement, and Sentiment / Gregory E. Kaebnick
- 17 The Evolution of Moral Enhancement / Russell Powell and Allen Buchanan
- Index.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Ethics of human enhancement : understanding the debate.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-181635-3
- 0-19-107097-1
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