Truly human enhancement : a philosophical defense of limits /
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Author / Creator: | Agar, Nicholas, author. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2014] ©2014 |
Description: | 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
Series: | Basic bioethics Basic bioethics. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11219442 |
Table of Contents:
- Radical Human Enhancement as a Transformative Change
- Two Ideals of Human Enhancement
- What Interest Do We Have in Superhuman Feats?
- The Threat to Human Identities from Too Much Enhancement
- Should We Enhance Our Cognitive Powers to Better Understand the Universe and Our Place in It?
- The Moral Case against Radical Life Extension
- A Defense of Truly Human Enhancement
- Why Radical Cognitive Enhancement Will (Probably) Enhance Moral Status
- Why Moral Status Enhancement Is a Morally Bad Thing
- A Technological Yet Truly Human Future--as Depicted in Star Trek.