Veit, Walter (2018) Cognitive Enhancement and the Threat of Inequality. [Preprint]
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As scientific progress approaches the point where significant human enhancements could become reality, debates arise whether such technologies should be made available. This paper evaluates the widespread concern that human enhancements will inevitably accentuate existing inequality and analyzes whether prohibition is the optimal public policy to avoid this outcome. Beyond these empirical questions, this paper considers whether the inequality objection is a sound argument against the set of enhancements most threatening to equality, i.e. cognitive enhancements. In doing so, I shall argue that cognitive enhancements can be embraced wholeheartedly, for three separate reasons. However, though the inequality objection does not sufficiently support the conclusion that cognitive enhancements should be prohibited, it raises several concerns for optimal policy design that shall be addressed here.
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| Keywords: | Human enhancement, cognitive enhancement, modafinil, genetic engineering, inequality, eugenics, capitalism | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > Ethical Issues General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Science and Policy General Issues > Technology General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Walter Veit | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 19 Sep 2019 03:25 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2019 03:25 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 16446 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > Ethical Issues General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Science and Policy General Issues > Technology General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Date: | 2018 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16446 |
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