Overview
- Gathers together unpublished works from different authors focusing on the relationship between preference adaptation and autonomy in connection with human enhancement and in the end-of-life context
- Assesses how, if at all, preference adaptation affects autonomy in connection with the choices we make as regards enhancing and ending human life
- Combines for the first time the topics of preference adaptation, individual autonomy, and that of choosing to die or to enhance human capacities in a unique and comprehensive publication, filling an important knowledge gap in the contemporary bioethics literature
Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE, volume 10)
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About this book
This volume gathers together previously unpublished articles focusing on the relationship between preference adaptation and autonomy in connection with human enhancement and in the end-of-life context. The value of individual autonomy is a cornerstone of liberal societies. While there are different conceptions of the notion, it is arguable that on any plausible understanding of individual autonomy an autonomous agent needs to take into account the conditions that circumscribe its actions. Yet it has also been suggested that allowing one’s options to affect one’s preferences threatens autonomy. While this phenomenon has received some attention in other areas of moral philosophy, it has seldom been considered in bioethics. This book combines for the first time the topics of preference adaptation, individual autonomy, and choosing to die or to enhance human capacities in a unique and comprehensive volume, filling an important knowledge gap in the contemporary bioethics literature.
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“This is a collection of previously unpublished essays that consider whether adaptive preferences … undermine the autonomy of an individual in end-of-life decision-making. … It will appeal to those interested in decision-making capacity, autonomy, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, acquired disabilities, or human enhancement through biotechnology.” (Joseph T. Norris, Doody’s Book Reviews, February, 2014)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adaptation and Autonomy: Adaptive Preferences in Enhancing and Ending Life
Editors: Juha Räikkä, Jukka Varelius
Series Title: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38376-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-38375-5Published: 29 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44735-8Published: 13 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-38376-2Published: 13 May 2013
Series ISSN: 2192-6255
Series E-ISSN: 2192-6263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 201
Topics: Ethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Philosophy of Science