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ArticlePolitics philosophy & economics2019

Enhancement and desert.

Thomas Douglas

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Article in Politics philosophy & economics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Closed-Loop Brain Devices in Offender Rehabilitation: Autonomy, Human Rights, and Accountability.Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees · 2021
    Article
  2. Achievement and Enhancement.Canadian journal of philosophy · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Thomas DouglasUniversity of Oxford, UK.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 100705
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is sometimes claimed that those who succeed with the aid of enhancement technologies deserve the rewards associated with their success less, other things being equal, than those who succeed without the aid of such technologies. This claim captures some widely held intuitions, has been implicitly endorsed by participants in social-psychological research and helps to undergird some otherwise puzzling philosophical objections to the use of enhancement technologies. I consider whether it can be provided with a rational basis. I examine three arguments that might be offered in its favour and argue that each either shows only that enhancements undermine desert in special circumstances or succeeds only under assumptions that deprive the appeal to desert of much of its dialectic interest.

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Identifiers

PMID30886539
PMCPMC6380459

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