III.1 Biological Life, and Enhancement

Agar, Nicholas. Humanity's End : Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2010.

 

Boden, Margaret (ed.). The Philosophy of Artificial Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

 

Derrida, Jacques. The Gift of Death. trans. David Willis. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1995

 

Düwell, Marcus, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter and Dietmar Mieth, eds. The Contingent Nature of Life Bioethics and Limits of Human Existence. Berlin: Springer, 2008.

 

Habermas, Jürgen. The future of human nature. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2003.

 

Fukuyama, Francis. Our posthuman future : consequences of the biotechnology revolution. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

 

Harris, John. "Moral Progress and Moral Enhancement." Bioethics 27, no. 5 (June 1, 2013): 285-290.

 

Jonas, Hans. Philosophical essays: from ancient creed to technological man. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1974

 

Jonas, Hans. The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.

 

Jonas, Hans. The imperative of responsibility : in search of an ethics for the technological age. trans. Hans Jonas, with David Herr, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984.

 

Koch, Tom. "Enhancing who? Enhancing what? Ethics, bioethics, and transhumanism." Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 35, no. 6 (2010): 685-699.

 

Kurzweil, Ray. How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. New York: Penguin, 2012.

 

Kurzweil, Ray. and Grossman, Terry. Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever. New York: Rodale, 2009

 

Lev, Ori. "Enhancing the Capacity for Moral Agency." American Journal Of Bioethics: Neuroscience 3, no. 4 (October 1, 2012): 20-22.

 

More, Max and Natasha Vita-More, eds. The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future. Chichester, UK: John Wiley and Sons, 2013

 

Parens, Erik (ed.). Enhancing Human Traits: Ethical and Social Implications. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1998.

 

Persson, Ingmar, and Julian Savulescu. "Getting Moral Enhancement Right: The Desirability of Moral Bioenhancement." Bioethics 27, no. 3 (March 1, 2013): 124-131.

 

President's Council on Bioethics, Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness, Washington, DC: President's Council on Bioethics, 2003.

 

Rutherford, Adam. Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself. New York: Current Hardcover, 2013.

 

Savulescu, Julian, and Ingmar Persson. "Moral Enhancement, Freedom, and the God Machine." Monist: An International Quarterly Journal Of General Philosophical Inquiry 95, no. 3 (July 1, 2012): 399-421.

 

Spicker, Stuart F. Organism, Medicine, and Metaphysics: Essays in Honor of Hans Jonas on his 75th Birthday. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publications, 1978.

 

Tonkens, Ryan. "Feeling Good about the End: Adderall and Moral Enhancement." American Journal Of Bioethics: Neuroscience 4, no. 1 (January 1, 2013): 15-16.

 

Zarpentine, Chris. "'The Thorny and Arduous Path of Moral Progress': Moral Psychology and Moral Enhancement." Neuroethics 6, no. 1 (April 1, 2013): 141-153.