Humanity's end : why we should reject radical enhancement /

""Arguments against radical enhancement have too often in the past been characterized by irrationalism and mysticism. Nicholas Agar presents the first cogent case for the rationality of opposing radical enhancement. Moving easily between science and philosophy, he argues for a species-rela...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Agar, Nicholas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2010]
Colección:Life and mind.
Temas:
Human evolution > Effect of technological innovations on.
Technological innovations > Social aspects.
Evolution (Biology)
Technology > ethics
Biological Evolution
Êtres humains > Évolution > Effets des innovations sur.
Innovations > Aspect social.
Évolution (Biologie)
evolution.
08.36 philosophical anthropology, philosophy of psychology.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Technological innovations > Social aspects
Humanität
Technischer Fortschritt
Biomedical engineering.
Prolonging life.
Philosophical aspects.
PHILOSOPHY/General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is radical enhancement?
  • Radical enhancement and posthumanity
  • The technologist : Ray Kurzweil and the law of accelerating returns
  • Is uploading ourselves into machines a good bet?
  • The therapist : Aubrey de Grey's strategies for engineered negligible senescence
  • Who wants to live forever?
  • The philosopher : Nick Bostrom on the morality of enhancement
  • The sociologist : James Hughes and the many paths of moral enhancement
  • A species-relativist conclusion about radical enhancement.

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