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18The Ethics of Human Enhancement: Understanding the Debate (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2016.We humans can enhance some of our mental and physical abilities above the normal upper limits for our species with the use of particular drug therapies and medical procedures. We will be able to enhance many more of our abilities in more ways in the near future. Some commentators have welcomed the prospect of wide use of human enhancement technologies, while others have viewed it with alarm, and have made clear that they find human enhancement morally objectionable. The Ethics of Human Enhanceme…Read more
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32The Ethics of Human Enhancement: Understanding the Debate (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2016.An international team of ethicists refresh the debate about human enhancement by examining whether resistance to the use of technology to enhance our mental and physical capabilities can be supported by articulated philosophical reasoning, or explained away, e.g. in terms of psychological influences on moral reasoning.
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1Challenging human enhancementIn Steve Clarke, Julian Savulescu, C. A. J. Coady, Alberto Giubilini & Sagar Sanyal (eds.), The Ethics of Human Enhancement: Understanding the Debate, Oxford University Press. 2016.
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18Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical Demand and Political Reality (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.Ten new essays critique the practice of armed humanitarian intervention, whereby one state sends its armed forces into another to protect citizens against major human rights abuses. The contributors examine a range of concerns, for instance about potential adverse effects and about ulterior motives.
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17Truly Human Enhancement: A Philosophical Defense of Limits, by Nicholas Agar: Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2014, pp. xvi + 214, £24.95 (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93 (2): 407-407. 2015.
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178Political equality and global poverty: an alternative egalitarian approach to distributive justiceDissertation, University of Canterbury. 2009.I argue that existing views in the political equality debate are inadequate. I propose an alternative approach to equality and argue its superiority to the competing approaches. I apply the approach to some issues in global justice relating to global poverty and to the inability of some countries to develop as they would like. In this connection I discuss institutions of international trade, sovereign debt and global reserves and I focus particularly on the WTO, IMF and World Bank.
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1440US military and covert action and global justiceInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 23 (2): 213-234. 2009.US military intervention and covert action is a significant contributor to global injustice. Discussion of this contributor to global injustice is relatively common in social justice movements. Yet it has been ignored by the global justice literature in political philosophy. This paper aims to fill this gap by introducing the topic into the global justice debate. While the global justice debate has focused on inter-national and supra-national institutions, I argue that an adequate analysis of US…Read more
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369The Ethics of Human EnhancementPhilosophy Compass 10 (4): 233-243. 2015.Ethical debate surrounding human enhancement, especially by biotechnological means, has burgeoned since the turn of the century. Issues discussed include whether specific types of enhancement are permissible or even obligatory, whether they are likely to produce a net good for individuals and for society, and whether there is something intrinsically wrong in playing God with human nature. We characterize the main camps on the issue, identifying three main positions: permissive, restrictive and c…Read more
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20US Military and Covert Action and Global JusticeInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 23 (2): 213-234. 2009.US military intervention and covert action are significant contributors to global injustice. Discussion of this contributor to injustice is relatively common in social justice movements. Yet it has been ignored by the global justice literature in political philosophy. This paper aims to fill this gap by introducing the topic into the debate. While the global justice debate has focused on inter-national and supra-national institutions, I argue that an adequate analysis of US military and covert a…Read more
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31Biomedical Enhancement and Social Development: A Conservative Techno‐FixBioethics 30 (9): 733-740. 2016.Allen Buchanan has argued for a linking of the ethics of human enhancement to the ethics of development more generally. The promise of the ‘enhancement enterprise' is that it may help develop society, just as other technological advances have in the past. He proposes a framework of intellectual property rights, government action to ensure the poor can access the enhancements, an international organization to administer the diffusion of new enhancement technologies from the West to poor countries…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Social Science |