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Humanity's end [[electronic resource] ] : why we should reject radical enhancement / / Nicholas Agar
| Humanity's end [[electronic resource] ] : why we should reject radical enhancement / / Nicholas Agar |
| Autore | Agar Nicholas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.48/3 |
| Collana | Life and mind |
| Soggetto topico |
Human evolution - Effect of technological innovations on
Technological innovations - Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-262-28893-1
1-280-49886-2 9786613594099 0-262-28912-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452309003321 |
Agar Nicholas
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Humanity's end : why we should reject radical enhancement / / Nicholas Agar
| Humanity's end : why we should reject radical enhancement / / Nicholas Agar |
| Autore | Agar Nicholas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass. : , : MIT Press, , [2010] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.48/3 |
| Collana | Life and mind |
| Soggetto topico |
Human evolution - Effect of technological innovations on
Technological innovations - Social aspects |
| Soggetto non controllato | PHILOSOPHY/General |
| ISBN |
0-262-28893-1
1-280-49886-2 9786613594099 0-262-28912-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779187203321 |
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Agar Nicholas
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| Cambridge, Mass. : , : MIT Press, , [2010] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Humanity's end : why we should reject radical enhancement / / Nicholas Agar
| Humanity's end : why we should reject radical enhancement / / Nicholas Agar |
| Autore | Agar Nicholas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass. : , : MIT Press, , [2010] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.48/3 |
| Collana | Life and mind |
| Soggetto topico |
Human evolution - Effect of technological innovations on
Technological innovations - Social aspects |
| Soggetto non controllato | PHILOSOPHY/General |
| ISBN |
0-262-28893-1
1-280-49886-2 9786613594099 0-262-28912-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828414903321 |
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Agar Nicholas
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| Cambridge, Mass. : , : MIT Press, , [2010] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Liberal eugenics [[electronic resource] ] : in defence of human enhancement / / Nicholas Agar
| Liberal eugenics [[electronic resource] ] : in defence of human enhancement / / Nicholas Agar |
| Autore | Agar Nicholas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.92 |
| Soggetto topico | Eugenics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-31932-5
9786611319328 0-470-76068-0 0-470-77500-9 0-470-77757-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Genius sperm, eugenics, and enhancement technologies -- A pragmatic optimism about enhancement technologies -- Making moral images of biotechnology -- The moral image of therapy -- The moral image of nature -- The moral image of nurture -- Our postliberal future -- Enhanced humans when? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910145419803321 |
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Agar Nicholas
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| Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Liberal eugenics [[electronic resource] ] : in defence of human enhancement / / Nicholas Agar
| Liberal eugenics [[electronic resource] ] : in defence of human enhancement / / Nicholas Agar |
| Autore | Agar Nicholas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.92 |
| Soggetto topico | Eugenics |
| ISBN |
1-281-31932-5
9786611319328 0-470-76068-0 0-470-77500-9 0-470-77757-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Genius sperm, eugenics, and enhancement technologies -- A pragmatic optimism about enhancement technologies -- Making moral images of biotechnology -- The moral image of therapy -- The moral image of nature -- The moral image of nurture -- Our postliberal future -- Enhanced humans when? |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996218290703316 |
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Agar Nicholas
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| Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Liberal eugenics [[electronic resource] ] : in defence of human enhancement / / Nicholas Agar
| Liberal eugenics [[electronic resource] ] : in defence of human enhancement / / Nicholas Agar |
| Autore | Agar Nicholas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.92 |
| Soggetto topico | Eugenics |
| ISBN |
1-281-31932-5
9786611319328 0-470-76068-0 0-470-77500-9 0-470-77757-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Genius sperm, eugenics, and enhancement technologies -- A pragmatic optimism about enhancement technologies -- Making moral images of biotechnology -- The moral image of therapy -- The moral image of nature -- The moral image of nurture -- Our postliberal future -- Enhanced humans when? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830528503321 |
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Agar Nicholas
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| Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The sceptical optimist : why technology isn't the answer to everything / / Nicholas Agar
| The sceptical optimist : why technology isn't the answer to everything / / Nicholas Agar |
| Autore | Agar Nicholas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.483 |
| Soggetto topico |
Technology - Psychological aspects
Technology - Social aspects Technology - Philosophy |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-19-102662-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""COVER""; ""THE SCEPTICAL OPTIMIST: WHY TECHNOLOGY ISN'T THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING""; ""COPYRIGHT""; ""DEDICATION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF FIGURES""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""An outline of the book""; ""1: RADICAL OPTIMISM AND THE TECHNOLOGY BIAS""; ""Does technological progress increase subjective well-being?""; ""Radically optimistic forecasts""; ""How should we prioritize technological progress?""; ""Concluding comments""; ""2: IS THERE A LAW OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS?""; ""Moore�s Law, Kryder�s Law, and exponential technological improvement""
""Two questions about exponential technological progress""""Exponential technological improvement as a conditional law""; ""What went wrong with cancer?""; ""Kurzweil�s evolutionary explanation of exponential technological progress""; ""The difference between reflexive and passive improvement""; ""Exponential technological improvement is infectious""; ""Concluding comments""; ""3: DOES TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS MAKE US HAPPIER?""; ""The traditional paradox of progress""; ""How we hedonically adapt to new well-being technologies""; ""Complete or incomplete hedonic adaptation?"" ""Concluding comments""""4: THE NEW PARADOX OF PROGRESS""; ""Gibbon versus Ridley on historical happiness""; ""The perils of attitudinal time travel""; ""Hedonic normalization""; ""How to make comparisons that best reveal the effects of technological progress""; ""Complete or incomplete hedonic normalization""; ""Why hedonic normalization is probably incomplete""; ""The new paradox of technological progress""; ""Concluding comments""; ""5: WE NEED TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS EXPERIMENTS""; ""Technological progress traps""; ""Two ideals of technological progress""; ""The fear of falling behind"" ""How is progress dangerous?""""Rehabilitating the idea of technology experiments""; ""Jared Diamond on the natural experiments of traditional societies""; ""Creating and nurturing variation in technological progress""; ""A nuclear power progress experiment""; ""Why should the winners share with the losers?""; ""A progress experiment on genetically modified crops""; ""The future of technological progress""; ""Concluding comments""; ""6: WHY TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS WON�T END POVERTY""; ""Poverty and well-being""; ""Ordinary and emergency circumstances of poverty"" ""Radically optimistic solutions to poverty""""Were there poor people in the Pleistocene?""; ""How poverty affects life satisfaction""; ""Misunderstanding the happiness of the Sun King""; ""Evidence from status competitions for the relevance of social context""; ""Economic and technological trickledown""; ""Concluding comments""; ""7: CHOOSING A TEMPO OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS""; ""Comparing different tempos of progress""; ""Technological progress makes diminishing marginal contributions to well-being""; ""Mobile phones and cancer therapies"" ""The importance of subjectively positive technological progress"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460558503321 |
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Agar Nicholas
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| New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The sceptical optimist : why technology isn't the answer to everything / / Nicholas Agar
| The sceptical optimist : why technology isn't the answer to everything / / Nicholas Agar |
| Autore | Agar Nicholas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.483 |
| Soggetto topico |
Technology - Psychological aspects
Technology - Social aspects Technology - Philosophy |
| ISBN | 0-19-102662-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""COVER""; ""THE SCEPTICAL OPTIMIST: WHY TECHNOLOGY ISN'T THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING""; ""COPYRIGHT""; ""DEDICATION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF FIGURES""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""An outline of the book""; ""1: RADICAL OPTIMISM AND THE TECHNOLOGY BIAS""; ""Does technological progress increase subjective well-being?""; ""Radically optimistic forecasts""; ""How should we prioritize technological progress?""; ""Concluding comments""; ""2: IS THERE A LAW OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS?""; ""Moore�s Law, Kryder�s Law, and exponential technological improvement""
""Two questions about exponential technological progress""""Exponential technological improvement as a conditional law""; ""What went wrong with cancer?""; ""Kurzweil�s evolutionary explanation of exponential technological progress""; ""The difference between reflexive and passive improvement""; ""Exponential technological improvement is infectious""; ""Concluding comments""; ""3: DOES TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS MAKE US HAPPIER?""; ""The traditional paradox of progress""; ""How we hedonically adapt to new well-being technologies""; ""Complete or incomplete hedonic adaptation?"" ""Concluding comments""""4: THE NEW PARADOX OF PROGRESS""; ""Gibbon versus Ridley on historical happiness""; ""The perils of attitudinal time travel""; ""Hedonic normalization""; ""How to make comparisons that best reveal the effects of technological progress""; ""Complete or incomplete hedonic normalization""; ""Why hedonic normalization is probably incomplete""; ""The new paradox of technological progress""; ""Concluding comments""; ""5: WE NEED TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS EXPERIMENTS""; ""Technological progress traps""; ""Two ideals of technological progress""; ""The fear of falling behind"" ""How is progress dangerous?""""Rehabilitating the idea of technology experiments""; ""Jared Diamond on the natural experiments of traditional societies""; ""Creating and nurturing variation in technological progress""; ""A nuclear power progress experiment""; ""Why should the winners share with the losers?""; ""A progress experiment on genetically modified crops""; ""The future of technological progress""; ""Concluding comments""; ""6: WHY TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS WON�T END POVERTY""; ""Poverty and well-being""; ""Ordinary and emergency circumstances of poverty"" ""Radically optimistic solutions to poverty""""Were there poor people in the Pleistocene?""; ""How poverty affects life satisfaction""; ""Misunderstanding the happiness of the Sun King""; ""Evidence from status competitions for the relevance of social context""; ""Economic and technological trickledown""; ""Concluding comments""; ""7: CHOOSING A TEMPO OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS""; ""Comparing different tempos of progress""; ""Technological progress makes diminishing marginal contributions to well-being""; ""Mobile phones and cancer therapies"" ""The importance of subjectively positive technological progress"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797274803321 |
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Agar Nicholas
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| New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The sceptical optimist : why technology isn't the answer to everything / / Nicholas Agar
| The sceptical optimist : why technology isn't the answer to everything / / Nicholas Agar |
| Autore | Agar Nicholas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.483 |
| Soggetto topico |
Technology - Psychological aspects
Technology - Social aspects Technology - Philosophy |
| ISBN | 0-19-102662-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""COVER""; ""THE SCEPTICAL OPTIMIST: WHY TECHNOLOGY ISN'T THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING""; ""COPYRIGHT""; ""DEDICATION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF FIGURES""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""An outline of the book""; ""1: RADICAL OPTIMISM AND THE TECHNOLOGY BIAS""; ""Does technological progress increase subjective well-being?""; ""Radically optimistic forecasts""; ""How should we prioritize technological progress?""; ""Concluding comments""; ""2: IS THERE A LAW OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS?""; ""Moore�s Law, Kryder�s Law, and exponential technological improvement""
""Two questions about exponential technological progress""""Exponential technological improvement as a conditional law""; ""What went wrong with cancer?""; ""Kurzweil�s evolutionary explanation of exponential technological progress""; ""The difference between reflexive and passive improvement""; ""Exponential technological improvement is infectious""; ""Concluding comments""; ""3: DOES TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS MAKE US HAPPIER?""; ""The traditional paradox of progress""; ""How we hedonically adapt to new well-being technologies""; ""Complete or incomplete hedonic adaptation?"" ""Concluding comments""""4: THE NEW PARADOX OF PROGRESS""; ""Gibbon versus Ridley on historical happiness""; ""The perils of attitudinal time travel""; ""Hedonic normalization""; ""How to make comparisons that best reveal the effects of technological progress""; ""Complete or incomplete hedonic normalization""; ""Why hedonic normalization is probably incomplete""; ""The new paradox of technological progress""; ""Concluding comments""; ""5: WE NEED TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS EXPERIMENTS""; ""Technological progress traps""; ""Two ideals of technological progress""; ""The fear of falling behind"" ""How is progress dangerous?""""Rehabilitating the idea of technology experiments""; ""Jared Diamond on the natural experiments of traditional societies""; ""Creating and nurturing variation in technological progress""; ""A nuclear power progress experiment""; ""Why should the winners share with the losers?""; ""A progress experiment on genetically modified crops""; ""The future of technological progress""; ""Concluding comments""; ""6: WHY TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS WON�T END POVERTY""; ""Poverty and well-being""; ""Ordinary and emergency circumstances of poverty"" ""Radically optimistic solutions to poverty""""Were there poor people in the Pleistocene?""; ""How poverty affects life satisfaction""; ""Misunderstanding the happiness of the Sun King""; ""Evidence from status competitions for the relevance of social context""; ""Economic and technological trickledown""; ""Concluding comments""; ""7: CHOOSING A TEMPO OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS""; ""Comparing different tempos of progress""; ""Technological progress makes diminishing marginal contributions to well-being""; ""Mobile phones and cancer therapies"" ""The importance of subjectively positive technological progress"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815205203321 |
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Agar Nicholas
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| New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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