Dialogues on human enhancement / Nicholas Agar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agar, Nicholas, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Philosophical dialogues on contemporary problems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical innovations--Social aspects.

Medical innovations.

Medical ethics.

Prenatal diagnosis.

Genetic engineering.

Ethics, Medical.

Prenatal Diagnosis.

Medical Subjects:

Ethics, Medical.

Prenatal Diagnosis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

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).

Contents:

<P>Foreword by Michael Hauskeller</P><P><STRONG>Night 1: </STRONG><STRONG>What should we say about gene-edited twins who may have been enhanced?<BR></STRONG>The He Jiankui affair <BR>The importance of being reasonable about an essentially uncertain future<BR>Doing philosophy in the Metaverse!</P><P></P><P><STRONG>Night</STRONG><STRONG> 2: Enhancement technologies, doping athletes, and the meaning of human enhancement</STRONG> <BR>What are enhancement technologies?<BR>What does it mean to be enhanced?<BR>Did Ben Johnson really cheat at the 1988 Seoul Olympics?<BR>Who

or what

is the world's best chess player<BR>The morally problematic nature of Sophie's insulin pump<BR>Moving on</P><U><P></P></U><P><STRONG>Night</STRONG><STRONG> 3: From Francis Galton's eugenics to liberal eugenics</STRONG> <BR>Francis Galton and eugenics<BR>The ethical fix of "liberal" eugenics<BR>A thought experiment involving an enhanced Himmler<BR>What is procreative liberty?<BR>How the liberal state can prevent morally bad procreative choices<BR>Habermas responds to liberal eugenics<BR>Do we need enhancement tech risk pioneers?<BR>Is human enhancement a threat to equality?<BR>Will human enhancement end sex?<BR>Is liberal eugenics just shit stirring?</P><U><P></P></U><P><STRONG>Day 4: Radical versus moderate enhancement and cognition<BR></STRONG>A radically enhanced humanity remade by tech?<BR>Differences between liberal eugenics and radical enhancement<BR>Radical human enhancement clarified<BR>Should we become posthuman?<BR>What is exponential technological progress?<BR>Can we have radically enhanced cognitive powers?<BR>Will our quest to become a spacefaring species turn us into clouds of nanabots?</P><P><STRONG>Night</STRONG><STRONG> 5: SENS and radical life extension<BR></STRONG>Radically extended life spans<BR>Can SENS make humans negligibly senescent?<B> <BR></B>Might SENS actually slow progress toward an enhanced future?<BR>Do we need to escape human biology if we are going to live to be 969?<BR>The choice between moderate and radical enhancement<BR>Why advocates of moderate enhancement might prefer gene editing to enhancement by digital tech</P><B><P></P></B><P><STRONG>Night</STRONG><STRONG> 6: Enhanced moods and morality<BR></STRONG>Happy-People-Pills For All?<BR>Can we achieve radically enhanced happiness?<BR>Can we control exponentially improving digital technologies?</P><P></P><P><STRONG>Night</STRONG><STRONG> 7: How do we decide which aspects of human nature to preserve?</STRONG><BR>The meaning of the luddites<BR>Should we fix gorillas' problems by uplifting them?<BR>What would we do to avoid extinction?<BR>Should we want the things we believe our radically enhanced future selves might want?<BR>Do philosophers' thought experiments about the future encourage recklessness?<BR>From surveillance capitalism to enhancement capitalism?<BR>Philosophical uncertainty about what it means to be human</P><P><STRONG></STRONG></P><P><STRONG>Night</STRONG><STRONG> 8: A species relativist rejection of radical enhancement<BR></STRONG>Is radical enhancement a transformative change?<BR>Could you take a pill that made you a racist?<BR>A kind of species relativism?</P><U><P></P></U><P><STRONG>Night</STRONG><STRONG> 9: Three contrasting nightmares about the Age of Human Enhancement<BR></STRONG>Three year 2100 human enhancement what-ifs</P>

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9781000931013

1000931013

9781003321613

1003321615

9781000931051

1000931056

Publisher Number:

40032037780

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