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Toward a more fruitful debate about enhancement

In Julian Savulescu & Nick Bostrom (eds.), Human Enhancement. Oxford University Press. pp. 181--197 (2009)

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  1. Engineers of Life? A Critical Examination of the Concept of Life in the Debate on Synthetic Biology.Johannes Steizinger - 2016 - In Toepfer Georg & Engelhard Margret (eds.), : Ambivalences of Creating Life – Societal and Philosophical Dimensions of Synthetic Biology. Springer. pp. 275−292.
    The concept of life plays a crucial role in the debate on synthetic biology. The first part of this chapter outlines the controversial debate on the status of the concept of life in current science and philosophy. Against this background, synthetic biology and the discourse on its scientific and societal consequences is revealed as an exception. Here, the concept of life is not only used as buzzword but also discussed theoretically and links the ethical aspects with the epistemological prerequisites and (...)
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  • Human Enhancement: Making the Debate More Productive. [REVIEW]Janet A. Kourany - 2014 - Erkenntnis 79 (S5):981-998.
    Human enhancement—the attempt to overcome all human cognitive, emotional, and physical limitations using current technological developments—has been said to pose the most fundamental social and political question facing the world in the twenty-first century. Yet, the public remains ill prepared to deal with it. Indeed, controversy continues to swirl around human enhancement even among the very best-informed experts in the most relevant fields, with no end in sight. Why the ongoing stalemate in the discussion? I attempt to explain the central (...)
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  • Poets in the Clinic: Recasting “Virtue Essentialist” Arguments About Enhancement in Prototype Form.William Paul Kabasenche - 2011 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 2 (2):44-45.
    John Banja (2011) proposes to criticize the argumentative strategy of some moral conservatives whom he identifies as using illicit essentialist language. Of Kass's and Sandel's arguments concerning...
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  • The Philosopher as the Therapist: A Lesson from the Past.Grzegorz Hołub - 2020 - Roczniki Filozoficzne 68 (1):33-48.
    This article is about the philosopher as a potential therapist. It starts from tendencies exhibited by a group of contemporary philosophers involved in a so-called human enhancement. Drawing on the newest discoveries of genetics, genetic engineering and pharmacology, they offer a set of therapies aimed at the extensive ‘improvement’ of the human condition. In the second part of the paper, selected ideas concerning philosophical therapy by the Ancient philosophers are presented. They basically employed personal contact, conversation, and wise counselling. Then (...)
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