To what extent should we use technological advances to try to make better human beings? Leading philosophers debate the possibility of enhancing human cognition, mood, personality, and physical performance, and controlling aging. Would this take us beyond the bounds of human nature? These are questions that need to be answered now. INDICE: Nick Bostrom and Julian Savulescu: Introduction: Human Enhancement Ethics: The State of the Debate; Part I - Human Enhancement in General; 1:Norman Daniels: Can anyone really be talking about ethically modifying human nature?; 2: Eric Jeungst: 'Alter-ing' Human Nature? Misplaced Essentialism in Science Policy; 3: Ryuichi Ida: Should We Improve Human Nature? An Interrogation from an Asian Perspective; 4: Michael Sandel: The Case Against Perfection: What's wrong with designer children, bionic athletes, and genetic engineering;5: Frances Kamm: What Is And Is Not Wrong With Enhancement?; 6: John Harris: Enhancements Are A Moral Obligation; 7: C.A.J. Coady: Playing God; 8: Erik Parens: Toward a More Fruitful Debate about Enhancement; 9: Arthur L. Caplan: Good, Better, or Best?; 10: Julian Savulescu: The Human Prejudice and the Moral Status of Enhanced Beings: What Do We Owe the Gods?; Part II Specific Enhancements; 11: Dan W. Brock: Is Selection of Children Wrong?; 12: Peter Singer: Parental Choice and Human Improvement; 13: Susumu Shimazono: Reasons Against the Selection of Life: From Japan's Experience of Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis; 14: Torbjörn Tännsjö: Medical Enhancement and the Ethos of Elite Sport; 15: Christine Overall: Life Enhancement Technologies And the Significance of Social Category Membership; 16: Daniel Wikler: Paternalism in the Age of Cognitive Enhancement: Do Civil Liberties Presuppose Roughly Equal Mental Ability?; 17: Robin Hanson: Enhancing Our Truth Orientation; Part III- Enhancement as a Practical Challenge; 18: Nick Bostrom and Anders Sandberg: The Wisdom of Nature: An Evolutionary Heuristic for Human Enhancement
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959496-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 432
- Fecha Publicación: 28/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés