Creating Future People

ISBN-13: 9781032636573 / Miękka / 2024 / 130 str.

Jonathan Anomaly

Opis

Creating Future People offers readers a fast-paced primer on how advances in genetics will enable parents to influence the traits of their children, including their children’s intelligence, moral capacities, physical appearance, and immune system.

Spis treści

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Smart People; 2. Good People; 3. Pretty People; 4. Healthy People; 5. Synthetic People; Conclusion; Appendix A The Ultimatum Game; Appendix B The Prisoner’s Dilemma; Appendix C The Public Goods Game; References; Glossary; Index.

O autorze

Jonathan Anomaly wrote Creating Future People while he was a visiting professor at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University.  He currently is the academic director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) in Quito, Ecuador, and works with a new company in Austin, Texas that offers polygenic embryo screening for physical and mental traits. Prior to this, Anomaly was associate director of PPE at the University of Pennsylvania, and senior lecturer in PPE at Duke University.