Autonomy and the limits of cognitive enhancement.
In the debates regarding the ethics of human enhancement, proponents have found it difficult to refute the concern, voiced by certain bioconservatives, that cognitive enhancement violates the autonomy of the enhanced. However, G. Owen Schaefer, Guy Kahane and Julian Savulescu have attempted not only...
| Publicado en: | Bioethics Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 15 - 23 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jan2021
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