Beschreibung:
We face an emerging range of technologies that can be applied to our human natures with the goal of enhancing us. These fictional dialogues between a proponent, opponent, moderate, and supervising philosopher explore the issues that arise.
Night 1: What should we say about gene-edited twins who may have been enhanced? Night 2: Enhancement technologies, doping athletes, and the meaning of human enhancement Night 3: From Francis Galton's eugenics to liberal eugenics Night 4: Radical versus moderate enhancement and cognition Night 5: SENS and radical life extension Night 6: Enhanced moods and morality Night 7: How do we decide which aspects of human nature to preserve? Night 8: A species relativist rejection of radical enhancement Night 9: Three contrasting nightmares about the Age of Human Enhancement