Humanity's end [electronic resource] : why we should reject radical enhancement / Nicholas Agar.

By: Agar, NicholasContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Life and mindPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010Description: viii, 219 pISBN: 9780262289122 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Human evolution -- Effect of technological innovations on | Technological innovations -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 303.48/3 LOC classification: GN281 | .A33 2010Online resources: Click to View
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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"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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