Human Enhancement and Well-Being: A Case for Optimism

ISBN-13: 9780367702205 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 176 str.

Emma C. Gordon

Opis

This book outlines and criticises the six main contemporary arguments for scepticism about the role of human enhancements in promoting well-being. It also defends important and concrete ways in which enhancement-permissive policies should be embraced with the aim of promoting well-being.

O autorze

Emma C. Gordon is a Lecturer in Applied Ethics at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her expertise is mainly in applied ethics (especially bioethics) and social epistemology. Her work has appeared in such places as Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Bioethics, The Journal of Applied Philosophy, Neuroethics, and Philosophical Psychology.