Truly human enhancement: a philosophical defense of limits
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England
The MIT Press
[2014]
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| Beschreibung: | xvi, 214 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780262026635 |
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Contents Series Foreword ix Preface xi Acknowledgments 1 xv Radical Human Enhancement as a Transformative Change 1 Transformative Change and Invasion of the Body Snatchers 5 The Rational Irreversibility of Some Transformative Changes 10 Positive and Negative Transformative Changes 14 Radical Enhancement as a Negative Transformative Change 2 Two Ideals of Human Enhancement 17 Defining Human Enhancement 18 The Objective Ideal of Human Enhancement 20 The Instrumental and Intrinsic Value of Human Capacities Anthropocentric Ways of Evaluating Enhancements 27 3 15 26 What Interest Do We Have in Superhuman Feats? The Value of Enhanced Marathons 33 34 Simulation and Meaning 36 Is Human Enhancement the Right Way to Pursue External Goods? 44 Is the Distinction between Internalizing and Externalizing Enhancement Philosophically Principled? 50 4 The Threat to Human Identities from Too Much Enhancement Two Psychological Accounts of Personal Identity A Threat to Identity from Life Extension 57 55 56 Radical Enhancement and Autobiographical Memory 60 How Does Autobiographical Memory Work? 62 An Asymmetry in Our Attitudes toward Past and Future 66 The Tension between Enhancement and Survival 69 The Analogy with Childhood 70 Why Radical Enhancement Is More Psychologically Disruptive Than Growing Up The Regress Problem: The Tragedy of Unending Enhancement 76 75
5 Should We Enhance Our Cognitive Powers to Better Understand the Universe and Our Place in It? 81 Understanding the Consequences of Cognitive Enhancement for Science 84 Two Ways in Which Human Science and Radically Enhanced Science Might Be Fundamentally Different 88 Differences in Idealization as Fundamental Differences between Human and Radically Enhanced Science 89 Idealizations That Enhance the Power of Scientific Explanations 93 Mathematics as a Bridge between Human and Radically Enhanced Science 95 Human Science, Radically Enhanced Science, and the Theory of Everything 97 Dawkins and Haldane versus Deutsch on the Limits of Human Science 98 How Different Idealizations Generate Different Theories of Everything 102 Valuing Human Science and Radically Enhanced Science 105 Radical Enhancement Reduces the Intrinsic Value of Our Cognitive Faculties What of Scientific Enhancement's Instrumental Benefits? 6 The Moral Case against Radical Life Extension Two Kinds of Anti-Aging Research The Testing Problem 113 114 The SENS Response to the Seven Deadly Things Is Aging Really a Disease? 106 109 117 120 122 Why WILT (and Other SENS Therapies) Will Require Dangerous Human Trials Where to Find Human Guinea Pigs for SENS Will Volunteer Risk Pioneers Help Out? 131 Ethical Anti-Aging Experiments Not Now, but Some Day? 7 A Defense of Truly Human Enhancement The Ubiquity of Human Enhancement Enhancement and Heredity 126 129 135 137 139 142 Defining Genetic Enhancement 143 The Interactionist View of Development 144 Six Ways in Which Genetic Enhancements Could Turn Out to Be More Morally
Problematic Than Environmental Enhancements (but, in Fact, Do Not) The Ideal of Truly Human Enhancement 8 146 154 Why Radical Cognitive Enhancement Will (Probably) Enhance Moral Status 157 Enhancing Moral Status versus Enhancing Moral Dispositions Why It's So Difficult to Enhance the Moral Status of Persons A justification for (Talking about) Moral Statuses Three Obstacles to Moral Enhancement 158 159 160 161 (1 ) The Problem of the Logic of Thresholds 161 (2) The Problem of How to Improve upon Inviolability 163 (3) The Problem of Expressing Moral Statuses Higher Than Personhood 164
vìi Contents Three Attempts to Describe Higher Moral Statuses 165 DeGrazia's Dispositionally Superior Post-Persons 167 McMahan's Freer, More Conscious Post-Persons 169 Douglas's Enhanced Cooperators 173 Criteria for Higher Moral Statuses and the Expressibility Problem 174 Why Cognitively Enhanced Beings Are Probably Better Than Us at Judging Relative Moral Status 176 Why Sufficiently Cognitively Enhanced Beings Will (Probably) Find That Cognitive Differences between Them and Us Mark a Difference in Moral Status Two Hypotheses about Higher Moral Statuses 9 177 178 Why Moral Status Enhancement Is a Morally Bad Thing Some Assumptions 181 182 Why a Change in Relative Moral Status Is Likely to Lead to Significant Harms for Human Mere Persons 184 Why Post-Persons Will Probably Identify Many Supreme Opportunities Requiring the Sacrifice of Mere Persons 189 What Complaint Can Mere Persons Make about the Harms They Suffer in Mixed Societies? 190 Why a Loss of Relative Status Is Unlikely to Be Adequately Compensated 10 A Technological Yet Truly Human Future—as Depicted in Star Trek Notes 201 Index 213 195 193 |
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