wyszukanych pozycji: 8
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Dialogues on Human Enhancement
ISBN: 9781032342252 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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...
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174,62 zł |
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Dialogues on Human Enhancement
ISBN: 9781032343426 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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...
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693,51 zł |
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Life's Intrinsic Value: Science, Ethics, and Nature
ISBN: 9780231117876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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 the biological sciences and what he calls "folk" morality to arrive at a workable environmental ethic and a new spectrum--a new hierarchy--of living...
Are bacteriophage T4 and the long-nosed elephant fish valuable in their own right? Nicholas Agar defends an affirmative answer to this question by arg...
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189,26 zł |
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Liberal Eugenics
ISBN: 9781405123907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children's characteristics.
In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children's characteristics.
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156,54 zł |
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Sceptical Optimist: Why Technology Isn't the Answer to Everything
ISBN: 9780198717058 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet -- has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical optimism'. Radical optimists claim that accelerating technical progress will soon end poverty, disease, and ignorance, and improve our happiness and well-being. Agar disputes the claim that technological progress will automatically produce great improvements in subjective well-being. He argues that radical optimism 'assigns to technological progress...
The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication vi...
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108,45 zł |
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Life's Intrinsic Value: Science, Ethics, and Nature
ISBN: 9780231117869 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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 the biological sciences and what he calls "folk" morality to arrive at a workable environmental ethic and a new spectrum--a new hierarchy--of living...
Are bacteriophage T4 and the long-nosed elephant fish valuable in their own right? Nicholas Agar defends an affirmative answer to this question by arg...
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cena:
611,05 zł |
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Liberal Eugenics
ISBN: 9781405123891 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children's characteristics.
In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children's characteristics.
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602,36 zł |
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Humanity's End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement
ISBN: 9780262525176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Proposals to make us smarter than the greatest geniuses or to add thousands of years to our life spans seem fit only for the spam folder or trash can. And yet this is what contemporary advocates of radical enhancement offer in all seriousness. They present a variety of technologies and therapies that will expand our capacities far beyond what is currently possible for human beings. In Humanity's End, Nicholas Agar argues against radical enhancement, describing its destructive consequences. Agar examines the proposals of four prominent radical enhancers: Ray Kurzweil, who... Proposals to make us smarter than the greatest geniuses or to add thousands of years to our life spans seem fit only for the spam folder or trash c... |
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236,21 zł |