Tim Lewens is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Fellow of Clare College. His past publications include Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere (MIT Press, 2004), and Darwin (Routledge, 2007). He is also a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and runs the ERC-funded project 'A Science of Human Nature? Philosophical Disputes at the Interface of Natural and Social Sciences'.
1. Introduction: The Biological Foundations of Bioethics Part One: Bettering Nature 2. Enhancement and Human Nature: The Case of Sandel 3. The Risks of Progress: Precaution and the Case of Human Enhancement 4. Human Nature: The Very Idea 5. From Bricolage to Biobricks (TM): Synthetic Biology and Rational Design 6. Origins, Parents, and Non-Identity Part Two: Biology in Ethics and Political Philosophy 7. Development Aid: On Ontogeny and Ethics 8. Prospects for Evolutionary Policy 9. What are Natural Inequalities? 10. Foot Note 11. Health, Naturalism, and Policy References Index
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