The ethics of doing human enhancement ethics Rueda Etxebarria, Jon Anticipatory ethics Distributive Justice Future technologies Human enhancement Methodology Research ethics Speculative ethics Human enhancement is one of the leading research topics in contemporary applied ethics. Interestingly, the widespread attention to the ethical aspects of future enhancement applications has generated misgivings. Are researchers who spend their time investigating the ethics of futuristic human enhancement scenarios acting in an ethically suboptimal manner? Are the methods they use to analyze future technological developments appropriate? Are institutions wasting resources by funding such research? In this article, I address the ethics of doing human enhancement ethics focusing on two main concerns. The Methodological Problem refers to the question of how we should methodologically address the moral aspects of future enhancement applications. The Normative Problem refers to what is the normative justification for investigating and funding the research on the ethical aspects of future human enhancement. This article aims to give a satisfactory response to both meta-questions in order to ethically justify the inquiry into the ethical aspects of emerging enhancement technologies. 2023-09-01T08:29:06Z 2023-09-01T08:29:06Z 2023-08-22 journal article Rueda, J. (2023). The ethics of doing human enhancement ethics. Futures, 153, 103236. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103236. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/84179 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103236 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ open access Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Atribución-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional Elsevier