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Procedural Moral Enhancement. [PDF]
Neuroethics, 2019 While philosophers are often concerned with the conditions for moral knowledge or justification, in practice something arguably less demanding is just as, if not more, important - reliably making correct moral judgments. Judges and juries should hand down fair sentences, government officials should decide on just laws, members of ethics committees ...
Schaefer GO, Savulescu J.
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Smarter Than Thou, Holier Than Thou: The Dynamic Interplay Between Cognitive and Moral Enhancement [PDF]
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2018 The debate about the desirability of using drugs to enhance human skills encompasses cognitive abilities such as memory and attention, and moral capacities such as emotional empathy and a sense of fairness.
Gabriela Pavarini +2 more
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Moral Hard-Wiring and Moral Enhancement. [PDF]
Bioethics, 2017 AbstractWe have argued for an urgent need for moral bioenhancement; that human moral psychology is limited in its ability to address current existential threats due to the evolutionary function of morality to maximize cooperation in small groups.We address here Powell and Buchanan's novel objection that there is an ‘inclusivist anomaly’: humans have ...
Persson I, Savulescu J.
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Moral enhancement and freedom. [PDF]
Bioethics, 2011 ABSTRACTThis paper identifies human enhancement as one of the most significant areas of bioethical interest in the last twenty years. It discusses in more detail one area, namely moral enhancement, which is generating significant contemporary interest.
Harris J.
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AI Moral Enhancement: Upgrading the Socio-Technical System of Moral Engagement. [PDF]
Sci Eng Ethics, 2023 AbstractSeveral proposals for moral enhancement would use AI to augment (auxiliary enhancement) or even supplant (exhaustive enhancement) human moral reasoning or judgment. Exhaustive enhancement proposals conceive AI as some self-contained oracle whose superiority to our own moral abilities is manifest in its ability to reliably deliver the ‘right ...
Volkman R, Gabriels K.
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J Appl Philos, 2008 abstract Opponents of biomedical enhancement often claim that, even if such enhancement would benefit the enhanced, it would harm others. But this objection looks unpersuasive when the enhancement in question is a moral enhancement — an enhancement that will expectably leave the enhanced person with morally better motives than she had previously.
Douglas T.
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Biomedical moral enhancement for psychopaths. [PDF]
BioethicsAbstractThis study examines the ethical permissibility of biomedical moral enhancement (BME) for psychopaths, considering both coercive and voluntary approaches. To do so, I will first briefly explain what psychopaths are and some normative implications of these facts.
Yoon J.
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ALTRUISM AND MORAL ENHANCEMENT [PDF]
Kriterion, 2021 In this article I will be discussing what altruism is, distinguishing altruistic motivations (pure and impure) and altruistic behaviour (soft and robust).
Cinara Nahra
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Integration of cognitive and moral enhancement [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2012 I will discuss four major perspectives on cognitive enhancement and morality: 1) cognitive enhancement is morally impermissible because humans are not supposed to alter what God has ordained or nature has shaped; 2) cognitive enhancement is our moral ...
Rakić Vojin
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The myth of the moral enhancement: Back to the future? [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2012 This text tries to shed some light on the origin of the idea of moral enhancement, on its epistemic and moral foundations. This requires a comparative analysis of similar ideas present in various trends of bioethics today - the analysis of the very ...
Mitrović Veselin
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