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  • The Ethics of Generating Posthumans

    Philosophical and Theological Reflections on Bringing New Persons into Existence

    Edited by Dr Calum MacKellar, Trevor Stammers ...
    Should transhuman and posthuman persons ever be brought into existence? And if so, could they be generated in a good and loving way? This study explores how society may respond to the actual generation of new kinds of persons from ethical, philosophical, and theological perspectives.Contributors to this volume address a number of essential questions, including the ethical ramifications of ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Christianity and the New Eugenics

    Should We Choose To Have Only Healthy Or Enhanced Children?

    by CALUM MACKELLAR ...
    What will it mean for society if science enables us to choose a future child whose health, athletic ability or intelligence is predetermined? This future is becoming ever more likely with the latest developments in human reproduction - but concerns are growing about the implications.New procedures making possible heritable genetic modifications such as genome editing open the door to 'sanitized' ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Ethics of the New Eugenics

    Edited by Calum MacKellar, Christopher Bechtel ...
    Strategies or decisions aimed at affecting, in a manner considered to be positive, the genetic heritage of a child in the context of human reproduction are increasingly being accepted in contemporary society. As a result, unnerving similarities between earlier selection ideology so central to the discredited eugenic regimes of the 20th century and those now on offer suggest that a new era of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Chimera's Children

    Ethical, Philosophical and Religious Perspectives on Human-Nonhuman Experimentation

    by David Albert Jones ...
    A comprehensive survey of the current context and ethical implications of human-nonhuman genetic combinations.The idea of human-nonhuman combinations has been a recurrent theme throughout the history of humanity. From the myths of the Minotaur and the centaurs in ancient Greece to the dogheads of the Middle Ages right through to the monsters of modern science fiction, these beings have always been ... Read more

    $22.89 USD

  • Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

    Lessons from Belgium

    Edited by David Albert Jones, Chris Gastmans, Calum MacKellar ...
    Series Book 42 - Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    Examining the evidence from Belgium – one of only five countries where euthanasia is practised legally – an international panel of experts considers the implications of legalised euthanasia and assisted suicide. Looking at the issue from an international perspective, the authors have written an invaluable in-depth analysis of the ethical aspects of this complex area. The discussion forms a solid ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Cyborg Mind

    What Brain–Computer and Mind–Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics

    by Calum MacKellar ...
    With the development of new direct interfaces between the human brain and computer systems, the time has come for an in-depth ethical examination of the way these neuronal interfaces may support an interaction between the mind and cyberspace.In so doing, this book does not hesitate to blend disciplines including neurobiology, philosophy, anthropology and politics. It also invites society, as a ... Read more

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  • Biotechnology and the Human Good

    by C. Ben Mitchell, Jean Bethke Elshtain, John F. Kilner, Scott B. Rae, Edmund D. Pellegrino ...
    Some of humankind's greatest tools have been forged in the research laboratory. Who could argue that medical advances like antibiotics, blood transfusions, and pacemakers have not improved the quality of people's lives? But with each new technological breakthrough there comes an array of consequences, at once predicted and unpredictable, beneficial and hazardous.Outcry over recent developments in ... Read more

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  • The Missing Myth

    A New Vision of Same-Sex Love

    by Gilles Herrada ...
    If homosexual behavior is an aberration from the standpoint of reproduction, why is it widespread among humans, primates, and a myriad of other animal species, and why has it been favored by evolution? And if homosexuality is considered a moral problem based on religious beliefs, why were more homosexuals exterminated under the brief reigns of such secular regimes as the Communists and the Nazis ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Superintelligence

    Paths, Dangers, Strategies

    by Nick Bostrom ...
    The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • On Human Nature

    by Roger Scruton ...
    A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Moral Machines

    Teaching Robots Right from Wrong

    by Wendell Wallach, Colin Allen ...
    Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach argue that as robots take on more and more responsibility, they must be programmed with moral decision-making ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Humanism

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Peter Cave ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    The quintessential guide to living a meaningful life without God.Why should we believe in God without any evidence? How can there be meaning in life when death is final? With historical adherents including such thinkers as Einstein, Freud, Philip Pullman, and Frank Zappa, "Humanism"'s central quest is to make sense of such questions, explaining the ethical and metaphysical by appealing to shared ... Read more

    $5.99 USD