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Truly human enhancement : a philosophical defense of limits / Nicholas Agar.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262318976
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RA418 .T785 2014
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
Subject: The transformative potential of genetic and cybernetic technologies to enhance human capabilities is most often either rejected on moral and prudential grounds or hailed as the future salvation of humanity. In this book, Nicholas Agar offers a more nuanced view, making a case for moderate human enhancement --
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction RA418.5.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn869747636

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

The transformative potential of genetic and cybernetic technologies to enhance human capabilities is most often either rejected on moral and prudential grounds or hailed as the future salvation of humanity. In this book, Nicholas Agar offers a more nuanced view, making a case for moderate human enhancement --

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