Commentary: Modeling the Social Dynamics of Moral Enhancement While Illustrating Some Basic Divergences in the Enhancement Debate

The article by Anders Sandberg and Joao Fabiano in this issue of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics is a very important addition to the enhancement literature. It reports an important simulation study of the stability of prosociality in society and at the same time implicitly illustrates some...

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Published in:Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics 2017-07, Vol.26 (3), p.446-448
Main Author: HOLM, SØREN
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bioethics
Biomedical Enhancement - ethics
Humans
Moral development
Morality
Morals
Social dynamics
Social sciences
Special Section: Enhancement and Goodness
Transhumanism
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Summary:The article by Anders Sandberg and Joao Fabiano in this issue of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics is a very important addition to the enhancement literature. It reports an important simulation study of the stability of prosociality in society and at the same time implicitly illustrates some of the enduring uncertainties and divisions in the philosophical enhancement debate that often lead to participants in that debate talking at cross purposes. In the enhancement literature, and especially among transhumanist writers, we are consistently being told that our powers of valuation will be enhanced and that we will be able to value things and to access welfare levels that are currently unavailable to us.
ISSN:0963-1801
1469-2147
DOI:10.1017/S0963180116001110