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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  
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2010
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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
Agar Nicholas  
Cambridge, Mass. : , : MIT Press, , [2010]
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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
Agar Nicholas  
Cambridge, Mass. : , : MIT Press, , [2010]
Materiale a stampa
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Journal of evolution and technology
Journal of evolution and technology
Pubbl/distr/stampa [Willington, CT], : [World Transhumanist Association], [1998]-
Disciplina 599.93
Soggetto topico Human evolution - Effect of technological innovations on
Technological innovations - Social aspects
Biological Evolution
Hominidae
Technology
Forecasting
Humanism
Soggetto genere / forma Periodical
Periodicals.
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Periodico
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Altri titoli varianti Journal of transhumanism
JET
Record Nr. UNINA-9910893180003321
[Willington, CT], : [World Transhumanist Association], [1998]-
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Transhumanism and society : the social debate over human enhancement / / Stephen Lilley
Transhumanism and society : the social debate over human enhancement / / Stephen Lilley
Autore Stephen Lilley
Edizione [1st ed. 2013.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berlin ; ; New York, : Springer, 2012, c2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (96 p.)
Disciplina 303.49
Collana SpringerBriefs in philosophy
Soggetto topico Humanism - Social aspects
Biotechnology - Social aspects
Human evolution - Effect of technological innovations on
ISBN 94-007-4981-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction to the Transhumanity Debate -- Chapter 2. Transcend or Transgress? -- Chapter 3. Transformation of Body and Mind -- Chapter 4. Rhetoric of Risk -- Chapter 5. Inevitability -- Chapter 6. Closure -- References -- Index.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910438350603321
Stephen Lilley  
Berlin ; ; New York, : Springer, 2012, c2013
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