Enhancing Human Capacities
"Enhancing Human Capacities" is the first to review the very latest scientific developments in human enhancement. It is unique in its examination of the ethical and policy implications of these technologies from a broad range of perspectives.
- Presents a rich range of perspectives on enhancement from world leading ethicists and scientists from Europe and North America
- The most comprehensive volume yet on the science and ethics of human enhancement
- Unique in providing a detailed overview of current and expected scientific advances in this area
- Discusses both general conceptual and ethical issues and concrete questions of policy
- Includes sections covering all major forms of enhancement: cognitive, affective, physical, and life extension
Edited by: Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen and Guy Kahane
Publisher: Oxford: Wiley Blackwell
ISBN-10: 1405195819
ISBN-13: 978-1405195812
Global Catastrophic Risks
In July 2008 the Future of Humanity Institute held an international conference on Global Catastrophic Risks in Oxford. An informal survey was circulated amongst participants, asking them to estimate the chance of disasters of different types occurring before 2100. The first research report issued by FHI summarizes the main results.
Click here to download the report.
A book - collection of essays, edited by Nick Bostrom and Milan Cirkovic, with a foreword by Sir Martin Rees, is now available to buy from amazon.co.uk, amazon.com and Oxford University Press.
Human Enhancement
"Human Enhancement" presents the latest moves in this crucial debate: original contributions from many of the world's leading ethicists and moral thinkers, representing a wide range of perspectives, advocates and sceptics, enthusiasts and moderates. These are the arguments that will determine how humanity develops in the near future.
Edited by Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom
ISBN: 978-0-19-929972-0
Publisher: Oxford University Press (22 January 2009)
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Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy
This book explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by observation selection effects. We will be discussing many interesting applications: philosophical thought experiments and paradoxes aside, we will use our results to address several juicy bits of contemporary science: cosmology (how many universes are there?), evolution theory (how improbable was the evolution of intelligent life on our planet?), the problem of time's arrow (can it be given a thermodynamic explanation?), game theoretic problems with imperfect recall (how to model them?), traffic analysis (why is the "next lane" faster?) and a lot more.
Author: Nick Bostrom
ISBN: 978-0415883948
Publisher: Routledge
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Wittgenstein and His Interpreters
Comprising specially commissioned essays from some of the most significant contributors to the field, this volume provides a uniquely authoritative and thorough survey of the main lines of Wittgenstein scholarship over the past 50 years, tracing the history and current trends as well as anticipating the future shape of work on Wittgenstein. The first collection of its kind, this volume presents a range of perspectives on the different approaches to the philosophy of Wittgenstein and is written by leading experts from America, Britain, and Europe.
Edited by Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian, and Oskari Kuusela
ISBN: 978-1405129220
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
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