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Intelligence, empathy, and memory: Exploring moral enhancement through gene editing, training, and computer–brain interfaces

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
In this research article, I seek to expand the conversation regarding moral enhancement by identifying traits or capacities that if enhanced would lead to an increase in moral behaviour.
Braden Molhoek
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Why Internal Moral Enhancement Might Be politically Better than External Moral Enhancement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Technology could be used to improve morality but it could do so in different ways. Some technologies could augment and enhance moral behaviour externally by using external cues and signals to push and pull us towards morally appropriate behaviours. Other
Danaher, John
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Enhancing Moral Conformity and Enhancing Moral Worth [PDF]

open access: yesNeuroethics, 2013
It is plausible that we have moral reasons to become better at conforming to our moral reasons. However, it is not always clear what means to greater moral conformity we should adopt. John Harris has recently argued that we have reason to adopt traditional, deliberative means in preference to means that alter our affective or conative states directly ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Free to do evil. Some possible implications of moral enhancement for free will and moral responsibility

open access: yesIm@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary, 2016
In recent years the progress of biomedical technologies has enabled man to enhance his physical and cognitive abilities by using pharmaceutical, surgical, or genetic techniques.
Consuelo Luverà
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring Enhanced Military Ethics and Legal Compliance through Automated Insights: An Experiment on Military Decision-making in Extremis

open access: yesConatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2023
Numerous factors are known to impact human decision-making: fatigue, stress, fear, sleep deprivation, organizational culture, ethics, and even substances consumed, among others.
Ioanna Lekea   +2 more
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Cognitive Enhancement: Treating or Cheating? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this article I provide an overview of the moral and medical questions surrounding the use of cognitive enhancers. This discussion will be framed in light of 4 key considerations: (1) is there a difference between therapy and enhancement?
Whetstine, Leslie M.
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Defining moral enhancement: a clarificatory taxonomy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Recently there has been some discussion concerning a particular type of enhancement, namely 'moral enhancement'. However, there is no consensus on what precisely constitutes moral enhancement, and as a result the concept is used and defined in a wide ...
Focquaert, Farah   +4 more
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Moral Bioenhancement for Social Welfare: Are Civic Institutions Ready?

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2017
Positive assessments of moral enhancement too often isolate intuitive notions about its benefits apart from the relevance of surrounding society or civic institutions. If moral bioenhancement should benefit both oneself and others, it cannot be conducted
John R. Shook   +3 more
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