Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement And Emergent Technologies Hardcover

India

Laura Y. Cabrera

This book analyses the new and emergent technologies that will play a central role in the future of human enhancement. These technologies - including nanotechnology, neurotechnology, information technology, robotics and artificial intelligence - not only have unique capabilities, but have also instantiated separate ethical domains. This book discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms-the biomedical, the transhumanist and the social-and explores how each paradigm involves different values and different uses of technology. It also explores how each paradigm instantiates different degrees and kinds of ethical issues. A new framework in which human enhancement can be understood is advanced, a framework that promotes technological innovation that serves the improvement of the human condition in a respectful and sustainable way. More importantly, this is a framework that ensures that not only certain groups of individuals enjoy the benefits of technological innovation. Includes a foreword from Professor Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Professor of Social Epistemology, University of Warwick, UK.

1137402237

9781137402233

English

Palgrave MacMillan

27-Jul-15

201

Laura Cabrera is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Core for Neuroethics, University of British Columbia, Canada. Her current research focuses on neuroethics and emergent technologies, especially those connected to uses of neurotechnologies and individual/societal implications and perspectives.