DFI - Artículoshttps://hdl.handle.net/10481/243442024-03-29T11:04:27Z2024-03-29T11:04:27ZThe global governance of genetic enhancement technologies: Justification, proposals, and challengesRueda Etxebarria, Jonhttps://hdl.handle.net/10481/901242024-03-20T13:30:31ZThe global governance of genetic enhancement technologies: Justification, proposals, and challenges
Rueda Etxebarria, Jon
The prospect of human genetic enhancement requires an institutional response, and probably the creation of new institutions. The governance of genetic enhancement technologies, moreover, needs to be global in scope. In this article, I analyze the debate on the global governance of human genetic enhancement. I begin by offering a philosophical justification for the need to adopt a global framework for governance of technologies that would facilitate the improvement of non-pathological genetic traits. I then summarize the main concrete proposals that have recently emerged to govern genome editing at the global level. Finally, I develop some impediments that limit the impetus for global governance of genetic enhancement.
May Artificial Intelligence take health and sustainability on a honeymoon? Towards green technologies for multidimensional health and environmental justiceMoyano-Fernández, CristianRueda Etxebarria, JonDelgado Rodríguez, JanetAusín, Txetxuhttps://hdl.handle.net/10481/899352024-03-12T10:35:09ZMay Artificial Intelligence take health and sustainability on a honeymoon? Towards green technologies for multidimensional health and environmental justice
Moyano-Fernández, Cristian; Rueda Etxebarria, Jon; Delgado Rodríguez, Janet; Ausín, Txetxu
The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare and epidemiology undoubtedly has many benefits for the population. However, due to its environmental impact, the use of AI can produce social inequalities and long-term environmental damages that may not be thoroughly contemplated. In this paper, we propose to consider the impacts of AI applications in medical care from the One Health paradigm and long-term global health. From health and environmental justice, rather than settling for a short and fleeting green honeymoon between health and sustainability caused by AI, it should aim for a lasting marriage. To this end, we conclude by proposing that, in the upcoming years, it could be valuable and necessary to promote more interconnected health, call for environmental cost transparency, and increase green responsibility.
Introducing Complexity in Anthropology and Moral Status: a Reply to PezzanoLlorca Albareda, Joanhttps://hdl.handle.net/10481/895212024-02-26T07:43:35ZIntroducing Complexity in Anthropology and Moral Status: a Reply to Pezzano
Llorca Albareda, Joan
Pezzano has offered some relevant considerations to my recently published article Anthropological crisis or crisis in moral status. He advocates for the need to address ontologically and anthropologically the relation between human beings and technologies from the concept of property. Despite its centrality, this concept is taken for granted in the debates on the moral status of artificial intelligence (AI). Both proponents and detractors of the anthropology of properties adopt a position towards it without analyzing in depth what exactly we mean by property. In this reply, I intend to take the thesis put forward in my paper a step further on the basis of Pezzano's commentary. I will defend the urge to explore a complex anthropology, markedly technological, and I will introduce the consequences this may have on the concept of moral status.
Oedipus Rex as a philosophical and political strategyMoreno Pestaña, José Luishttps://hdl.handle.net/10481/887802024-02-09T08:37:31ZOedipus Rex as a philosophical and political strategy
Moreno Pestaña, José Luis
This article studies Michel Foucault’s interpretation of the tragedy Oedipus Rex. The analysis seeks
to uncover the various intellectual strategies around his study. First, Foucault takes a position in
the political debate about prisons in France in the early 1970s. Second, his analysis of the tragedy
contributes to position his work in the field of the philosophical history of truth, by singularising
his project and separating it from the dominant models of the history of philosophy. Third,
Foucault aims to differentiate himself from the results of the historical work of the Paris School.
This article analyses how Foucault depends on these interpretations and how it helps him to
acquire philosophical relevance. Through the sociology of intellectual history’s perspective, the
article elaborates the contributions and limits of Foucault’s perspective.
Moral bioenhancement and the future of utilitarianismLara Sánchez, Francisco Damiánhttps://hdl.handle.net/10481/878982024-02-01T09:48:18ZMoral bioenhancement and the future of utilitarianism
Lara Sánchez, Francisco Damián
Utilitarianism has been able to respond to many of the objections raised against it by undertaking a major revision of its theory. Basically, this consisted of recognising that its early normative propositions were only viable for agents very different from flesh-and-blood humans. They then deduced that, given human limitations, it was most useful for everyone if moral agents did not behave as utilitarians and habitually followed certain rules. Important recent advances in neurotechnology suggest that some of these human limitations can be overcome. In this article, after presenting some possible neuro-enhancements, we seek to answer the questions, first, of whether they should be accepted by a utilitarian ethic and, second, if accepted, to what extent they would invalidate the revision that allowed them to escape the objections.