Human Enhancement

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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.

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"Alter-ing" Human Nature? Misplaced Essentialism in Science Policy.Eric Jeungst
Enhancements Are A Moral Obligation.John Harris
Is Selection of Children Wrong?Dan W. Brock
Life Enhancement Technologies: Significance of Social Category Membership.Christine Overall
Medical Enhancement and the Ethos of Elite Sport.Torbjörn Tännsjö
Parental Choice and Human Improvement.Peter Singer
Paternalism in the Age of Cognitive Enhancement: Do Civil Liberties Presuppose Roughly Equal Mental Ability?Daniel Wikler
Reasons Against the Selection of Life: From Japan's Experience of Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis.Susumu Shimazono
Should We Improve Human Nature? An Interrogation from an Asian Perspective.Ryuichi Ida
The Human Prejudice and the Moral Status of Enhanced Beings: What Do We Owe the Gods?Julian Savulescu
What Is And Is Not Wrong With Enhancement?Frances Kamm
Can anyone really be talking about ethically modifying human nature.  (pages 25--42)Norman Daniels
Obligation.  (pages 26--131)John Harris
Children, Bionic Athletes, and Genetic Engineering.  (pages 71)MichaelJ Sandel
with Enhancement?  (pages 91)Frances Kamm
“Enhancements Are a Moral Obligation” u: Bostrom i Savulescu.  (pages 131--155)Harris John
Playing god.  (pages 155--180)C. A. J. Coady
The religious perspective.  (pages 155)C. A. J. Coady
About Enhancement.  (pages 181)Erik Parens
Toward a more fruitful debate about enhancement.  (pages 181--197)Erik Parens
Good, Better, or Best?  (pages 199--209)Arthur L. Caplan
Good, better or best.  (pages 199--209)Arthur L. Caplan
The rise of anti-meliorism.  (pages 199)Arthur L. Caplan
Moral Status of Enhanced Beings: What Do We Owe the Gods?  (pages 211)Julian Savulescu
Buying yourself a tall, brainy child.  (pages 277)Peter Singer
Ethos ofElite Sport.  (pages 315)Torbjörn Tännsjö
Life Enhancement Technologies And the Significance of Social Category Membership.  (pages 327-340)Christine Overall
Life Enhancement Technologies: Significance of Social Category Membership.  (pages 327-340)Christine Overall
Enhancing our truth orientation.  (pages 357--372)Robin Hanson
The wisdom of nature: an evolutionary heuristic for human enhancement.  (pages 375--416)Nick Bostrom & Anders Sandberg

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