HumanaMente Issue 26 / May 2014
Reframing the Debate on Human Enhancement
26.05.2014
Special Issue HUMANA.MENTE (Issue 26 - May 2014)
Edited by Fiorella Battaglia, Antonio Carnevale
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Fiorella Battaglia, Antonio Carnevale
Epistemological and Moral Problems with Human Enhancement
PAPERS
Volker Gerhardt
Technology as a Medium of Ethics and Culture
Nikil Mukerji, Julian Nida-Rümelin
Towards a Moderate Stance on Human Enhancement
Christopher Coenen
Transhumanism and its Genesis: The Shaping of Human Enhancement Discourseby Visions of the Future
Barbara Henry
Human Enhancement and the Post-Human; the Converging and Diverging Pathways of Human, Hybrid and Artificial Anthropoids
David-Jack Fletcher
Transhuman Perfection: The Eradication of Disability Through Transhuman Technologies
Jan-Christoph Heilinger
Anthropological Arguments in the Ethical Debateabout Human Enhancement
William Sims Bainbridge
Identity Expansion and Transcendence
Roberto Mordacci
Cognitive Enhancement and Personal Identity
Anna Gotlib
Girl, Pixelated - Narrative Identity, Virtual Embodiment, and Second Life
Filippo Santoni de Sio, Philip Robichaud, Nicole A. Vincent
Who Should Enhance? Conceptual and Normative Dimensions of Cognitive Enhancement
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Is there a “Moral Obligation to Create Children with the Best Chance of the Best Life”?
Fox Swindells
Economic Inequality and Human Enhancement Technology
Nathan Van Camp
How Liberal is (the Liberal Critique of) a Liberal Eugenics?
Alberto Pirni
Towards a “Human Enhancement Society”? Opportunities for an Aristotelian Approach to Frame the Question
Pericle Salvini
Human Presence and Robotic Mediations: An Alternative Framework for Explicating Human Enhancement
COMMENTARIES
Jacopo Branchesi
Human being @ Risk. Enhancement, Technology, and the Evaluation of Vulnerability Transformations
by Mark Coeckelbergh
Laura Crompton
Unfit for the Future
by Persson & Savulescu
Matthias Moosburger
Körper 2.0
by Karin Harrasser
Marco Nuzzaco
Wittgenstein in Exile
by James C. Klagge