Personal Identity in Enhancement

PODROUŽKOVÁ, Jana. Personal Identity in Enhancement. Ostium – internetový časopis pre humanitné vedy. Trnava: Trnavská univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, 2015, vol. 11, No 3, p. nestránkováno, 9 pp. ISSN 1336-6556.

Basic information

• Original name: Personal Identity in Enhancement
• Authors: PODROUŽKOVÁ, Jana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Ostium – internetový časopis pre humanitné vedy, Trnava, Trnavská univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, 2015, 1336-6556.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
• Country of publisher: Slovakia
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: plná verze
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/15:00085301
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: enhancement; transhumanism; personal identity; criterion of identity; practical concerns
• Tags: mzok, rivok

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to introduce the concept of human enhancement, its methods and its relation to personal identity. Also several approaches to personal identity will be described. Transhumanism is a special think tank supporting human enhancement through modern technologies and some of its representatives claim, that even great changes to human organisms will not affect their personal identity. I will briefly describe the most important means of human enhancement and consider the problem of personal identity for each of them separately.

Links

• MUNI/A/1153/2014, interní kód MU: Name: Soudobé problémy a minulé podoby filozofické diskuse

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A