Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity

This book is an accessible and profound introduction to the key issues facing our country in our biotechnological age. Leading public intellectuals bring to bear a wide and deep learning on particular issues of public policy and discuss the relationship between technological and moral progress that takes place over the course of a human life.

This book is an accessible and profound introduction to the key issues facing our country in our biotechnological age. Leading public intellectuals bring to bear a wide and deep learning on particular issues of public policy and discuss the relationship between technological and moral progress that takes place over the course of a human life.

Introduction. Observations on American Liberty: My Report from the Front, Peter Augustine LawlerChapter 1. Pensions and Health Care in an Aging Society, James C. CaptrettaChapter 2. The Demographic Challenge to Entitlements: A Comment, Criticism, and Caveat, William EnglishChapter 3. An Earned Humility: Reflections on Professional Obligations to the Living Kidney Donor, Benjamin HippenChapter 4. The Science of Politics and the Conquest of Nature, Patrick J. DeneenChapter 5. The Problem with 'Friendly' Artificial Intelligence, Adam Keiper and Ari N. SchulmanChapter 6. The Case for Enhancing People, Ronald BaileyChapter 7. Justice without Foundations, Robert P. KraynakChapter 8. Blame It on My Genotype (if Not My Criminal Brain): Materialist Metaphysics and the Loss of Human Dignity, J. Daryl CharlesChapter 9. Libertarians vs. Liberal Learning, Peter Augustine LawlerChapter 10. Machine Morality and Human Responsibility, Charles T. RubinChapter 11. Tocqueville on Technology, Benjamin StoreyChapter 12. The Place of Liberal Education in Contemporary Higher Education, Marc D. Guerra