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Enhancing Fabiano’s Virtue Theory for Moral Enhancement
AJOB Neuroscience, 2021The grounding rationale for moral enhancement that Joao Fabiano (2021) promotes is the same as the one Persson and Savulescu advocate: safety—understood as the lowering of the probability of danger...
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Moral Philosophy and Moral Enhancements
AJOB Neuroscience, 2011In “‘Virtue Engineering’ and Moral Agency,” Fabrice Jotterand (2011) argues that the views of Aladsair MacInytre show why the whole transhumanist enterprise of moral enhancements is mistaken, built...
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Virtue Theory for Moral Enhancement
AJOB Neuroscience, 2021Our present moral traits are unable to provide the level of large-scale co-operation necessary to deal with risks such as nuclear proliferation, drastic climate change and pandemics. In order to survive in an environment with powerful and easily available technologies, some authors claim that we need to improve our moral traits with moral enhancement ...
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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2018
AbstractThe moral enhancement (or bioenhancement) debate seems stuck in a dilemma. On the one hand, the more radical proposals, while certainly novel and interesting, seem unlikely to be feasible in practice, or if technically feasible then most likely imprudent.
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AbstractThe moral enhancement (or bioenhancement) debate seems stuck in a dilemma. On the one hand, the more radical proposals, while certainly novel and interesting, seem unlikely to be feasible in practice, or if technically feasible then most likely imprudent.
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Biomedical Moral Enhancement and Moral Progress
2018This chapter critically examines a different and highly provocative response to the thesis that evolved human moral psychology poses severe and inflexible limitations on moral progress: the “evoliberal” proposal to re-engineer human moral psychology through biomedical technologies in order to solve some of our most pressing moral problems: war ...
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AJOB Neuroscience, 2012
John Shook (2012) defines moral enhancement as something that results in detectable modifications of one's moral conduct. This account fails to distinguish moral enhancement from moral compulsion.
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John Shook (2012) defines moral enhancement as something that results in detectable modifications of one's moral conduct. This account fails to distinguish moral enhancement from moral compulsion.
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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2018
AbstractThe idea of using biomedical means to make people more likely to behave morally may have a certain appeal. However, it is very hard to find two persons – let alone two moral philosophers – who agree on what it means to be moral or to act morally.
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AbstractThe idea of using biomedical means to make people more likely to behave morally may have a certain appeal. However, it is very hard to find two persons – let alone two moral philosophers – who agree on what it means to be moral or to act morally.
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Moral Enhancement, Neuroessentialism, and Moral Content
2016The conceptualization of morality by some proponents of moral bioenhancement requires particular epistemological commitments and neuroessentialist assumptions. This chapter examines these assumptions and shows why such premises are problematic for the development of a sophisticated framework of morality at the intersection of neuroscience and moral ...
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People self-enhance on dimensions central of their self-concept. Morality is a highly central dimension for most, and so moral self-enhancement is pervasive. It can take various forms. For example, people regard themselves as superior to their peers on moral traits, more so than other central traits, and claim that they are more likely than their peers
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Questioning the Moral Enhancement Project
The American Journal of Bioethics, 2014Among the types of human enhancement available in the near future, moral bioenhancement is perhaps one of the most controversial.
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