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Humanity's end why we should reject radical enhancement
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Title
Humanity's end [electronic resource] : why we should reject radical enhancement / Nicholas Agar.
ISBN
9780262014625 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262014629 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262289122 (e-book)
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
Physical Description
viii, 219 p.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
"A Bradford book."
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2012
Series
Life and mind
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index.
Contents
What is radical enhancement?
Radical enhancement and posthumanity
The technologist : Ray Kurzweil and the law of accelerating returns
Is uploading ourselves into machines a good bet?
The therapist : Aubrey de Grey's strategies for engineered negligible senescence
Who wants to live forever?
The philosopher : Nick Bostrom on the morality of enhancement
The sociologist : James Hughes and the many paths of moral enhancement
A species-relativist conclusion about radical enhancement.
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