Enhancing Human Capacities

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Enhancing Human Capacities is the first to review the very latest scientific developments in human enhancement. It is unique in its examination of the ethical and policy implications of these technologies from a broad range of perspectives. Presents a rich range of perspectives on enhancement from world leading ethicists and scientists from Europe and North America The most comprehensive volume yet on the science and ethics of human enhancement Unique in providing a detailed overview of current and expected scientific advances in this area Discusses both general conceptual and ethical issues and concrete questions of policy Includes sections covering all major forms of enhancement: cognitive, affective, physical, and life extension.

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Bennett Foddy.Enhancing Human Capacities, Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen & Guy Kahane
Gaia Barazzetti and Massimo Reichlin.Enhancing Human Capacities, Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen & Guy Kahane
Hidde J. Haisma.Enhancing Human Capacities, Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen & Guy Kahane
Part VI: Moral Enhancement.I. V. Part
Smart Policy: Cognitive Enhancement and the Public Interest.Nick Bostrom
Smart Policy: Cognitive Enhancement and the Public Interest.Nick Bostrom & Rebecca Roache
The concept of nature and the enhancement technologies debate.L. Witthøft Nielsen
Thomas Douglas.Enhancing Human Capacities, Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen & Guy Kahane
a Legitimate Goal of Medicine?Enhancing Human Capacities, Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen & Guy Kahane
in Mood Enhancement.Ron Berghmans, Ruud ter Meulen, Andrea Malizia & Rein Vos
Well‐Being and Enhancement.  (pages 1–18)Julian Savulescu, Anders Sandberg & Guy Kahane
Well-Being and Enhancement.  (pages 3--18)Julian Savulescu, Anders Sandberg & Guy Kahane
The Concept of Nature and the Enhancement Technologies Debate.  (pages 19–33)Lisbeth Witthøfft Nielsen
Enhancement, Autonomy, and Authenticity.  (pages 34–48)Niklas Juth
and Authenticity.  (pages 34)Niklas Juth
Breaking Evolution's Chains.  (pages 49–67)Russell Powell & Allen Buchanan
Cognition Enhancement.  (pages 69–91)Anders Sandberg
Upgrading the Brain.  (pages 71)Anders Sandberg
The Social and Economic Impacts of Cognitive Enhancements.  (pages 93--112)Anders Sandberg, Julian Savulescu & Guy Kahane
Cognitive Enhancing Drugs.  (pages 113–126)Charlotte R. Housden, Sharon Morein-Zamir & Barbara J. Sahakian
Neuroscience and Society.  (pages 113)Charlotte R. Housden, Sharon Morein-Zamir & Barbara J. Sahakian
Cognitive Bias and Collective Enhancement.  (pages 127–137)Steve Clarke
Smart Policy.  (pages 138–149)Nick Bostrom & Rebecca Roache
Scientific, Ethical, and Social Issues in Mood Enhancement.  (pages 151–165)Ron Berghmans, Ruud ter Meulen, Andrea Malizia & Rein Vos
Reasons to feel, reasons to take pills.  (pages 166–178)Guy Kahane
to Take Pills.  (pages 166)Guy Kahane
What's in a Name? ADHD and the Gray Area between Treatment and Enhancement.  (pages 179–193)Maartje Schermer & Ineke Bolt
and the Gray Area between Treatment and Enhancement.  (pages 179)Maartje Schermer & Ineke Bolt
Enhancement?  (pages 194)Rein Vos
What Is Good or Bad in Mood Enhancement?  (pages 194–206)Rein Vos
Asperger's Syndrome, Bipolar Disorder and the Relation between Mood, Cognition, and Well‐Being.  (pages 207–217)Laurens Landeweerd
Disorder and the Relation between Mood, Cognition, and Well-Being.  (pages 207)Laurens Landeweerd
Is Mood Enhancemen a Legitimate Goal of Medicine?  (pages 218–229)Bengt Bru€lde
Cognitive Therapy and Positive Psychology Combined.  (pages 230–244)Tony Hope
After Prozac.  (pages 245–256)S. Matthew Liao & Rebecca Roache
Physical Enhancement.  (pages 257–265)Hidde J. Haisma
Physical Enhancement.  (pages 266–273)Andy Miah
The State of the Art.  (pages 266)Andy Miah
Enhanced Bodies.  (pages 274–290)Claudio Tamburrini & Torbjo€Rn Ta¨Nnsjo€
Baseline, Whose Judgment?  (pages 291)Søren Holm & Mike McNamee
Physical Enhancement: what Baseline, Whose Judgment?  (pages 291–303)Søren Holm & Mike McNamee
Le Tour and Failure of Zero Tolerance.  (pages 304–312)Julian Savulescu & Bennett Foddy
Tolerance: Time to Relax Doping Controls.  (pages 304)Julian Savulescu & Bennett Foddy
Enhancing Skill.  (pages 313–325)Bennett Foddy
Can a Ban on Doping in Sport be Morally Justified?  (pages 326–331)Sigmund Loland
be Morally Justified?  (pages 326)Sigmund Loland
Looking for the Fountain of Youth.  (pages 333–349)Gaia Barazzetti
Scientific, Ethical, and Social Issues in the Extension of Human Lifespan.  (pages 335)Gaia Barazzetti
Is Living Longer Living Better?  (pages 350–367)Larry Temkin
Life Extension versus Replacement.  (pages 368–385)Gustaf Arrhenius
Basis and Ethical Outcomes.  (pages 386)Christine Overall
Life Span Extension: Metaphysical Basis and Ethical Outcomes.  (pages 386)Christine Overall
Life Extension and Personal Identity.  (pages 398–409)Gaia Barazzetti & Massimo Reichlin
Intergenerational Justice and Lifespan Extension.  (pages 410–420)Roberto Mordacci
and Lifespan Extension.  (pages 410)Roberto Mordacci
The Value of Life Extension to Persons as Conatively Driven Processes.  (pages 421–434)Steven Horrobin
Enhancing Human Aging.  (pages 435–452)John Bond
The Cultural and Psychosocial Context of Lifespan Extension.  (pages 435)John Bond
Generation of Interventions in Age-Related Disease and Decline.  (pages 453)Kenneth Howse
Policy‐Making for a New Generation of Interventions in Age‐Related Disease and Decline.  (pages 453–464)Kenneth Howse
Moral Enhancement.  (pages 465–485)Thomas Douglas
Unfit for the Future? Human Nature, Scientific Progress, and the Need for Moral Enhancement.  (pages 486–500)Ingmar Persson & Julian Savulescu
Of Nails and Hammers.  (pages 501–520)Henry T. Greely
The Politics of Human Enhancement and the European Union.  (pages 521–535)Christopher Coenen, Mirjam Schuijff & Martijntje Smits

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