Humanity's end : why we should reject radical enhancement /
Agar, Nicholas,
Humanity's end : why we should reject radical enhancement / Nicholas Agar. - viii, 219 pages ; 24 cm. - Life and mind. Philosophical issues in biology and psychology . - Life and mind. .
"A Bradford book.".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
0262014629 9780262014625
2010003166
Human evolution--Effect of technological innovations on
Social evolution.
Technological innovations--Social aspects
GN281 / .A33 2010
303.483
Humanity's end : why we should reject radical enhancement / Nicholas Agar. - viii, 219 pages ; 24 cm. - Life and mind. Philosophical issues in biology and psychology . - Life and mind. .
"A Bradford book.".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
0262014629 9780262014625
2010003166
Human evolution--Effect of technological innovations on
Social evolution.
Technological innovations--Social aspects
GN281 / .A33 2010
303.483