Dialogues on human enhancement. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nicholas Agar.
• Authors: Agar, Nicholas
• Contents: Foreword by Michael Hauskeller Night 1: What should we say about gene-edited twins who may have been enhanced?; The He Jiankui affair; The importance of being reasonable about an essentially uncertain future; Doing philosophy in the Metaverse! Night 2: Enhancement technologies, doping athletes, and the meaning of human enhancement ; What are enhancement technologies?; What does it mean to be enhanced?; Did Ben Johnson really cheat at the 1988 Seoul Olympics?; Who – or what – is the world’s best chess player; The morally problematic nature of Sophie’s insulin pump; Moving on Night 3: From Francis Galton’s eugenics to liberal eugenics ; Francis Galton and eugenics; The ethical fix of "liberal" eugenics; A thought experiment involving an enhanced Himmler; What is procreative liberty?; How the liberal state can prevent morally bad procreative choices; Habermas responds to liberal eugenics; Do we need enhancement tech risk pioneers?; Is human enhancement a threat to equality?; Will human enhancement end sex?; Is liberal eugenics just shit stirring? Day 4: Radical versus moderate enhancement and cognition; A radically enhanced humanity remade by tech?; Differences between liberal eugenics and radical enhancement; Radical human enhancement clarified; Should we become posthuman?; What is exponential technological progress?; Can we have radically enhanced cognitive powers?; Will our quest to become a spacefaring species turn us into clouds of nanabots? Night 5: SENS and radical life extension; Radically extended life spans; Can SENS make humans negligibly senescent?; Might SENS actually slow progress toward an enhanced future?; Do we need to escape human biology if we are going to live to be 969?; The choice between moderate and radical enhancement; Why advocates of moderate enhancement might prefer gene editing to enhancement by digital tech Night 6: Enhanced moods and morality; Happy-People-Pills For All?; Can we achieve radically enhanced happiness?; Can we control exponentially improving digital technologies? Night 7: How do we decide which aspects of human nature to preserve? ; The meaning of the luddites; Should we fix gorillas’ problems by uplifting them?; What would we do to avoid extinction?; Should we want the things we believe our radically enhanced future selves might want?; Do philosophers’ thought experiments about the future encourage recklessness?; From surveillance capitalism to enhancement capitalism?; Philosophical uncertainty about what it means to be human Night 8: A species relativist rejection of radical enhancement; Is radical enhancement a transformative change?; Could you take a pill that made you a racist?; A kind of species relativism? Night 9: Three contrasting nightmares about the Age of Human Enhancement; Three year 2100 human enhancement what-ifs
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (200 pages)
• Subjects: 610.28; Medical innovations -- Social aspects; Genetic engineering -- Social aspects; Medical innovations -- Moral and ethical aspects; Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000931051
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