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Ethics and Emerging Technologies

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Technology and Ethics
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    Chapter 2 Technology: Practice and Culture
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    Chapter 3 Technology and Responsibility: Reflections on the New Tasks of Ethics
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    Chapter 4 Technologies as Forms of Life
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    Chapter 5 Reproductive Technologies: Ethical Debates
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    Chapter 6 Preventing a Brave New World
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    Chapter 7 The Ethics of Sex Selection
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    Chapter 8 Selecting Children: The Ethics of Reproductive Genetic Engineering
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    Chapter 9 Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Embryos and Beyond
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    Chapter 10 Crossing Species Boundaries
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    Chapter 11 The Coming Era of Nanomedicine
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    Chapter 12 Psychopharmacology and Functional Neurosurgery: Manipulating Memory, Thought, and Mood
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    Chapter 13 Incentivizing Access and Innovation for Essential Medicines: A Survey of the Problem and Proposed Solutions
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    Chapter 14 “Beyond Therapy”
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    Chapter 15 Why I Want to Be a Posthuman When I Grow Up
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    Chapter 16 Moral Enhancement
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    Chapter 17 Enhancing Justice?
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    Chapter 18 Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The Growth of an American Surveillance Society
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    Chapter 19 Nanotechnology and Privacy: The Instructive Case of RFID
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    Chapter 20 Intellectual Property: Legal and Moral Challenges of Online File Sharing
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    Chapter 21 Virtual Reality and Computer Simulation
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    Chapter 22 The Digital Divide: Information Technologies and the Obligation to Alleviate Poverty
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    Chapter 23 Ethics, War, and Robots
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    Chapter 24 Ethics, Law, and Governance in the Development of Robots
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    Chapter 25 What to Do about Artificial Consciousness
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    Chapter 26 The Singularity is Near
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    Chapter 27 Risk, Precaution, and Nanotechnology
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    Chapter 28 Avoiding Catastrophic Climate Change: Why Technological Innovation is Necessary but not Sufficient
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    Chapter 29 Ethical Anxieties about Geoengineering
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    Chapter 30 Ecosystems Unbound: Ethical Questions for an Interventionist Ecology
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    Chapter 31 Ethics and Genetically Modified Foods
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    Chapter 32 Women and the Gendered Politics of Food
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    Chapter 33 The Ethics of Agricultural Animal Biotechnology
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    Chapter 34 Artificial Meat
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    Chapter 35 Synthetic Biology, Biosecurity, and Biosafety
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    Chapter 36 Evolution and the Deep Past: Intrinsic Responses to Synthetic Biology
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    Chapter 37 Social and Ethical Implications of Creating Artificial Cells
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Chapter title
Why I Want to Be a Posthuman When I Grow Up
Chapter number 15
Book title
Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, London, January 2014
DOI 10.1057/9781137349088_15
Book ISBNs
978-0-230-36703-6, 978-1-137-34908-8
Authors

Nick Bostrom

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Country Count As %
Unknown 4 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 1 25%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 25%
Unknown 2 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 1 25%
Psychology 1 25%
Unknown 2 50%