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Human Enhancement

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ISBN-10: 0199594961

ISBN-13: 9780199594962

Edition: 2010

Authors: Julian Savulescu, Nick Bostrom

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To what extent should we use technology to try to make better human beings? Because of the remarkable advances in biomedical science, we must now find an answer to this question.Human enhancement aims to increase human capacities above normal levels. Many forms of human enhancement are already in use. Many students and academics take cognition enhancing drugs to get a competitive edge. Some top athletes boost their performance with legal and illegal substances. Many an office worker begins each day with a dose of caffeine. This is only the beginning. As science and technology advance further, it will become increasingly possible to enhance basic human capacities toincrease or modulate…    
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Book details

List price: $35.49
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 10/28/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.25" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Nick Bostrom is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute and of the Program on the Impacts of Future Technology within the Oxford Martin School. He is the author of some 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (Routledge, 2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (ed., OUP, 2008), and Human Enhancement (ed., OUP, 2009). He previously taught at Yale, and he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy. Bostrom has a background in physics, computational neuroscience, and mathematical logic as well as philosophy.