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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2018

Michael Hauskeller  and
Lewis Coyne
Michael Hauskeller*
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool
Lewis Coyne*
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
*
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 83: Moral Enhancement: Critical Perspectives , October 2018 , pp. 1 - 3
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References

1 Throughout the remainder of this introduction – and in most of the contributions, unless otherwise stated – “moral enhancement” and “moral bioenhancement” are used interchangeably.

2 Persson, Ingmar and Savulescu, Julian, ‘The Perils of Cognitive Enhancement and the Urgent Imperative to Enhance the Moral Character of Humanity’, Journal of Applied Philosophy 25:3 (2008), 162–77CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Persson, Ingmar and Savulescu, Julian, Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 Cf. Hauskeller, Michael, Better Humans? Understanding the Human Enhancement Project, London: Routledge, 2013Google Scholar.

5 Harris, John, How to Be Good: The Possibility of Moral Enhancement, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 117CrossRefGoogle Scholar: ‘[a]ll moral philosophers, and indeed all ethicists, must have an interest in moral enhancement’.