The Psychopolitics of Cognitive Enhancement: The Long Transhuman Shadow.
This article explores the shadow side of transhumanist aspirations to transform humanity using cognitive enhancement technologies (CET). The central problem concerns how the desired transhuman anthropogenesis alters the ethical capacities of the human person. Focusing on the intersection between aut...
| Published in: | Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 447 - 477 |
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2022
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