Cohen’s Conservatism and Human Enhancement
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Cohen’s Conservatism and Human Enhancement
In an intriguing essay, G. A. Cohen has defended a conservative bias in favour of existing value. In this paper, we consider whether Cohen's conservatism raises a new challenge to the use of human enhancement technologies. We develop some of Cohen's suggestive remarks into a new line of argument against human enhancement that, we believe, is in several ways superior to existing objections. Howe...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Ethics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1382-4554,1572-8609
DOI: 10.1007/s10892-013-9151-0