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Imagining Moral Enhancement Practices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Since 2008, the so-called ‘moral enhancement debate’ asks whether we should actively pursue the development of moral enhancement technologies, and whether it would be permissible – or even obligatory – to put them to use, provided that these ...
Specker, J. (Jona), Specker, Jona
core   +1 more source

Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
wiley   +1 more source

Human enhancement and morality: Some theoretical doubts [PDF]

open access: yesSociološki Pregled
The author tackles the critical ethical ideas accompanying the idea that man can be "morally enhanced" by influencing the "moral brain". Analyzing the primary approach of contemporary neuroethicists, the author notes that the idea of improvement mainly ...
Cekić Nenad N.
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Allen Buchanan, Our Moral Fate (2020)

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Bioethics, 2023
In debates surrounding the biomedical enhancement of human morality, it is widely believed that morality was evolutionarily shaped to be rigidly tribal.
Guido Calderini
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Sport values, personal values and antisocial behavior in sport

open access: yesAsian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2023
A core aspect of morality concerns behavior towards others. To better understand this issue, we investigated the values-behavior relationship. In a cross-sectional study design, 165 team sport athletes rated the importance of Lee's sport values and ...
Christopher Ring   +3 more
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Intention and Moral Enhancement

open access: yesBioethics, 2016
AbstractRecently philosophers have proposed a wide variety of interventions referred to as ‘moral enhancements’. Some of these interventions are concerned with helping individuals make more informed decisions; others, however, are designed to compel people to act as the intervener sees fit.
openaire   +3 more sources

Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Courts: A Four‐Test Framework

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A structured framework for responsible AI applications relating to judicial decision‐making and the adjudicative functions of courts requires the satisfaction of multiple context‐specific safeguards. This article proposes a four‐test framework designed to evaluate whether AI systems used in courts operate in accordance with legal, procedural ...
Kwan Yiu Cheng
wiley   +1 more source

Is human enhancement possible if it comes from the outside?

open access: yesScientia et Fides, 2019
Throughout history, human beings have worked on their personal enhancement. Not only improving the living conditions, but also trying to improve the moral behavior of people, usually through education.
Rubén Herce
doaj   +1 more source

How cold is too cold? A theoretical analysis of the optimal trigger for index insurance for frost damage to crops

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Happiness Issue – Moral Aspects of its Biochemical Enhancement

open access: yesStudia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2021
The search for happiness is something that constitutes human existence from its beginning, and even though people have achieved unimaginable progress in science and technologies, they still have not found the secret of being happy. Transhumanist authors,
Zlatica Plašienková, Martin Farbák
doaj   +1 more source

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