MORAL BIOENHANCEMENT

Who needs ‘moral bioenhancement’ most?

Michael Cook | 07 September 2019 | Comments

tags: moral bioenhancement

Is it realistic?

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Protecting the world through moral bioenhancement

Michael Cook | 02 September 2018 | Comments

tags: enhancement, moral bioenhancement

It should be compulsory but secret, argues an American bioethicist

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The enhancement debate continues

Xavier Symons | 03 June 2017 | Comments

tags: enhancement, free will, human enhancement, moral bioenhancement, transhumanism

The latest edition of the Cambridge Quarterly takes stock of the enhancement debate.

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Should psychopaths be morally bioenhanced?

Michael Cook | 02 April 2017 | Comments

tags: moral bioenhancement, psychopathy

Croatian bioethicists say it should be compulsory

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Jimmy Savile meets bioethics

Xavier Symons | 30 August 2014 | Comments

tags: moral bioenhancement, professional misconduct, UK

As details continue to emerge of Jimmy Savile’s horrific crimes, a bioethicist is questioning the complicity of healthcare workers in allowing for the abuses.

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Is moral bioehancement even possible?

Xavier Symons | 20 June 2014 | Comments

tags: moral bioenhancement, moral psychology

A new article in Bioethics criticises the moral bioenhancement debate as misguided and framed on gratuitous assumptions. The authors – Inmaculada de Melo-Martin (Cornell) and Arleen Sales (St John’s University) – argue that the impact of pharmacological interventions on moral behavior is unclear and further that bioenhancement is incapable of solving what seem to be massive structural problems (climate change, global poverty, and so forth).

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Alas, moral bioehancement won’t stop climate change

Xavier Symons | 07 June 2014 | Comments

tags: bioethics discourse, climate change, moral bioenhancement

Several recent articles in leading journals have considered the ability of moral bioehancement to produce ‘environmentally conscious’ citizens and thus (indirectly) reduce carbon emissions. In a recent post on Practical Ethics, the blog’s administrator asserts that too few people would accept the offer of bioehancement and hence it would have a negligible effect on climate change.

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Moral bioehancement debate intensifies

Xavier Symons | 10 May 2014 | Comments

tags: egalitarianism, Julian Savulescu, moral bioenhancement

Bioenhancement has been receiving increased attention since the 2013 publication of Julian Savulescu and Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement by Julian Savulescu and Ingmar Persson. An April special issue of the American Journal of Bioethics explores the benefits and dangers of Persson and Savulescu’s project.