Humanity's End
Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement
$70.86
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
16 August 2013
Summary
An argument that achieving millennial life spans or monumental intellects will destroy values that give meaning to human lives.
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 po…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262525176 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262525178 |
| Author: | Nicholas Agar |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bradford Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 16 August 2013 |
| Weight: | 308g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology |
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Critics Review
Penetrating and lucid…This is the definitive critique of what [Agar] calls ‘radical enhancement.’
* Monash Bioethic Review *An evenhanded treatment of an area ripe for serious philosophical scrutiny. Agar’s analysis is philosophically astute, empirically informed, and historically shrewd. It is a welcome corrective to the occasional extravagancies of the human sciences.
* Quarterly Review of Biology *Agar’s book is a valuable survey of the most important interlocutors in the conversation about posthumanism…should be taken seriously…one may well be persuaded by Agar’s arguments.
* Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies *About The Author
Nicholas Agar
Nicholas Agar is Professor of Ethics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of Humanity’s End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement and Truly Human Enhancement: A Philosophical Defense of Limits, both published by the MIT Press.
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