Human Enhancement and Well-Being - A Case for Optimism

This book outlines and criticises the six main contemporary arguments for scepticism about the role of human enhancements in promoting well-being. It also defends important and concrete ways in which enhancement-permissive policies should be embraced with the aim of promoting well-being.

About the author

Emma C. Gordon is a Lecturer in Applied Ethics at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her expertise is mainly in applied ethics (especially bioethics) and social epistemology. Her work has appeared in such places as Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Bioethics, The Journal of Applied Philosophy, Neuroethics, and Philosophical Psychology.

Summary

This book outlines and criticises the six main contemporary arguments for scepticism about the role of human enhancements in promoting well-being. It also defends important and concrete ways in which enhancement-permissive policies should be embraced with the aim of promoting well-being.

Product details

• Authors: Emma C. Gordon
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9780367702205
• ISBN: 978-0-367-70220-5
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge