We face an emerging range of technologies that can be applied to our human natures with the goal of enhancing us. These fictional dialogues between a proponent, opponent, moderate, and supervising philosopher explore the issues that arise.
We face an emerging range of technologies that can be applied to our human natures with the goal of enhancing us. These fictional dialogues between a proponent, opponent, moderate, and supervising philosopher explore the issues that arise.
The digital revolution has brought us new gadgets and new things to do with them. The digital revolution also brings the digital economy, with machines capable of doing humans' jobs. Agar explains that developments in artificial intelligence enable computers to take over not just routine tasks but also the kind of "mind work¿ that previously relied on human intellect, and that this threatens human agency. The solution, Agar argues, is a hybrid...
Are bacteriophage T4 and the long-nosed elephant fish valuable in their own right? Nicholas Agar defends an affirmative answer to this question by arguing that anything living is intrinsically valuable. This claim challenges received ethical wisdom according to which only human beings are valuable in themselves. The resulting biocentric or life-centered morality forms the platform for an ethic of the environment.Agar builds a bridge between th...
In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children's characteristics.Gets away from fears of a Huxleyan 'Brave New World' or a return to the fascist eugenics of the pastWritten from a philosophically and scientifically informed point of viewConsiders real contemporary cases of parents choosing what kind of child to haveUses 'moral images' as a way to get readers with no...
Are bacteriophage T4 and the long-nosed elephant fish valuable in their own right? Nicholas Agar defends an affirmative answer to this question by arguing that anything living is intrinsically valuable. This claim challenges received ethical wisdom according to which only human beings are valuable in themselves. The resulting biocentric or life-centered morality forms the platform for an ethic of the environment.Agar builds a bridge between th...
In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children's characteristics.Gets away from fears of a Huxleyan 'Brave New World' or a return to the fascist eugenics of the pastWritten from a philosophically and scientifically informed point of viewConsiders real contemporary cases of parents choosing what kind of child to haveUses 'moral images' as a way to get readers with no...
