The ethics of human enhancement : : understanding the debate /

The ethics of human enhancement : : understanding the debate / / edited by Steve Clarke [and four others].

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...

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Clarke, Steve,
Place / Publishing House:Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxii, 269 pages)
Notes:This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
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Table of 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.

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