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Im@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
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Virtual Reality and Empathy Enhancement: Ethical Aspects
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 The history of humankind is full of examples that indicate a constant desire to make human beings more moral. Nowadays, technological breakthroughs might have a significant impact on our moral character and abilities. This is the case of Virtual Reality (
Jon Rueda, Francisco Lara
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Artificial Intelligence as a Means to Moral Enhancement
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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Can a Soldier Say No to an Enhancing Intervention?
Philosophies, 2020 Technological advancements have provided militaries with the possibility to enhance human performance and to provide soldiers with better warfighting capabilities. Though these technologies hold significant potential, their use is not without cost to the
Sahar Latheef, Adam Henschke
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The Ethics of “Smart Drugs”: Moral Judgments About Healthy People's Use of Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs [PDF]
, 2012 What moral concerns are relevant when judging the use of cognitive-enhancing (CE) drugs by healthy people? University students evaluated competitive fairness, distributive fairness, peer pressure, naturalness, and dosage form.
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Moral Perfection and the Demand for Human Enhancement
Ethics in Progress, 2015 In this article I discuss one of the most significant areas of bioethical interest, which is the problem of moral enhancement. Since I claim that the crucial issue in the current debate on human bioenhancement is the problem of agency, I bring out and ...
Adriana Warmbier
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Moral Bioenhancement for Social Welfare: Are Civic Institutions Ready?
Frontiers 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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Sparking Religious Conversion through AI?
Religions, 2022 This paper will take the stance that cognitive enhancement promised by the use of AI could be a first step for some in bringing about moral enhancement. It will take a further step in questioning whether moral enhancement using AI could lead to moral and
Moira McQueen
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Freedom and moral enhancement [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2014 This issue of Journal of Medical Ethics includes a pair of papers debating the implications of moral bioenhancement for human freedom–and, especially, the question of whether moral enhancement should potentially be compulsory. In earlier writings Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu (P&S) argue that compulsory moral bioenhancement may be necessary to ...
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The choice between moral enhancement and ultimate harm [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2013 'Ultimate harm' can be defined as the result of a catastrophic event or series of events that permanently destroy sentient life on Earth or make its conditions so unbearable that it cannot be considered worthy of living anymore.
Rakić Vojin
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