The ethics of human enhancement : understanding the debate /
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13418557 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; The Ethics of Human Enhancement: Understanding the Debate; Copyright; Preface; References; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1: Challenging Human Enhancement; 1.1 Human Enhancement: Mapping the Terrain; 1.2 Conservatism: from the French Revolution to the Biotechnology Revolution; 1.3 Instrumentalist versus Substantive Bioethics; 1.4 Playing God; 1.5 The Wisdom of Intuitions and Emotions; 1.5.1 Intuition, Emotion, and Mystery; 1.5.1.1 Appeals to Literature; 1.6 Human Dignity and Human Nature in the Enhancement Debate; 1.6.1 Dignity of Human Nature; 1.6.2 Foundations of Human Dignity.
- 1.6.3 Views on Human Dignity among Proponents of Human Enhancement1.7 Restrictive (Non-conservative) Positions on Human Enhancement; 1.7.1 Egalitarian Concerns; 1.7.2 Utilitarian Concerns; 1.7.3 Balancing Principles; 1.7.4 Autonomy and Moral Equality; 1.7.5 Unintended Bad Consequences and Futility; 1.7.6 The Old Eugenics and the New; 1.8 The Affective Revolution in Moral Psychology and the Conservative/Liberal Divide; 1.8.1 Relevant Evidence from Moral Psychology and Neuroscience; 1.8.2 Possible Objections; References; Section I: Understanding the Debate.
- 2: Reason, Emotion, and Morality: Some Cautions for the Enhancement Project2.1 Introduction; 2.2 S ketching the Tradition; 2.3 The Turn to Neuroscience; 2.4 The Nature of Emotions; References; 3: Repugnance as Performance Error: The Role of Disgust in Bioethical Intuitions; 3.1 Arguments from Repugnance; 3.2 Disgust Experiments; 3.3 Disgust's Influence Tempered; 3.4 Performance Errors and Exogenous Factors; 3.5 Disgust's Performance; 3.6 Conclusion; References; 4: Reasons, Reflection, and Repugnance; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Kass on Repugnance, Moral Judgement, and Wisdom.
- 4.3 Affect-Based Accounts of Moral Judgement: Social Intuitionism4.4 Wise Intuitions and Unwise Reflection; 4.5 Problems for Kass: Unwise Intuitions; 4.6 Reason-Tracking vs. Reason-Responding; 4.7 Wisdom: a Closer Analysis; 4.8 Wisdom and Repugnance Reconsidered; 4.9 Conclusion; References; 5: A Natural Alliance against a Common Foe? Opponents of Enhancement and the Social Model of Disability; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Normal and Abnormal; 5.3 Unconditional Parental Acceptance; 5.4 Conclusion; References; 6: Playing God: What is the Problem?; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 What is Nature?
- 6.3 Humans Are Not Part of Nature6.4 Humans Are Part of Nature; 6.5 The Controlled/Uncontrolled Distinction; 6.6 Back to Playing God; 6.7 Examples; 6.8 Conclusion; References; 7: Conservative and Critical Morality in Debate about Reproductive Technologies; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Conservativism in Debates about Assisted Insemination and Reproductive Technologies; 7.3 Critical Morality in Debates about AID and Reproductive Technologies; 7.4 Defending the Conservative Intuition; 7.5 Conclusions; References; 8: Human Enhancement: Conceptual Clarity and Moral Significance; 8.1 Introduction.