Enhancement Fit for Humanity: Perspectives on Emerging Technologies

✍ Scribed by Michael Baggot (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 255
• Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores what constitutes an enhancement fit for humanity in the age of nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, information technologies, and technologies related to the cognitive sciences. It considers the influence of emergent technology upon our understanding of human nature and the impact on future generations. Drawing on the Catholic tradition in particular, the book gathers international contributions from scientific, philosophical, legal, and religious perspectives. Together they offer a positive step in an ongoing dialogue regarding the promises and perils of emergent technology for man’s integral human development.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Contributors
Preface: The challenge of imperfection
Introduction: An interdisciplinary reflection on the impact of emerging technologies on humanity
Part I Scientific perspectives on emerging technologies
Chapter 1 Emerging and converging technologies: The state of the art in therapeutics
Chapter 2 Cognitive and memory neuroenhancement
Chapter 3 Is neuroenhancement ethical or unethical?: An open issue
Chapter 4 Enhancement and doping in sports
Part II Philosophical perspectives on emerging technologies
Chapter 5 Anthropological and neuroethical elements of the pursuit of neurocybernetic immortality in the global 2045 initiative
Chapter 6 For and against human enhancement
Chapter 7 Human nature and the philosophical challenges of a post-human society
Chapter 8 Toward the abolition of the idea of human nature and the ushering in of another “advent of a New Man”
Chapter 9 Healthier than healthy: The moral case for therapeutic enhancements
Chapter 10 Resisting the temptations of perfection
Chapter 11 From gender to transgender and transhumanism
Chapter 12 A Thomistic assessment of contemporary transhumanism as a postmodern, secular, liberal movement
Part III Social and legal perspectives on emerging technologies
Chapter 13 Which juridic norms should regulate new converging technologies?
Chapter 14 The Impact of neurotechnologies on human rights and justice
Part IV Religious perspectives on emerging technologies and transhumanism
Chapter 15 Buddhist reflections on the development of biotechnology
Chapter 16 Islam and transhumanism
Chapter 17 Questions and answers on human enhancement in the Jewish tradition
Index