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Moral enhancement: do means matter morally? [PDF]
Neuroethics, 2015 One of the reasons why moral enhancement may be controversial, is because the advantages of moral enhancement may fall upon society rather than on those who are enhanced.
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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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Moral Enhancement Can Kill [PDF]
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, 2018 There is recent empirical evidence that personal identity is constituted by one’s moral traits. If true, this poses a problem for those who advocate for moral enhancement, or the manipulation of a person’s moral traits through pharmaceutical or other ...
Crutchfield, Parker
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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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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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Artificial Intelligence as a Means to Moral Enhancement [PDF]
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2016 This paper critically assesses the possibility of moral enhancement with ambient intelligence technologies and artificial intelligence presented in Savulescu and Maslen (2015).
Klincewicz Michał
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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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