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BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//TYPO3/NONSGML Calendar Base (cal) V1.11.1//EN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:www.hhu.de_248_31097 DTSTAMP:20240411T104652 DTSTART:20240612T163000Z DTEND:20240612T180000Z CATEGORIES:Kolloquium des Instituts, Veranstaltungen SUMMARY:Dr. Oliver Feeney: "'Just' Perceptions? Placebo-Genomic Enhancement as a problem for justice" DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\r\n\r\nIt is a well-recognised fear that human enhancement technology could exacerbate inequalities\, whether from robotics\, pharmaceuticals or developments in genomics (Sienna 2021). The potential of human genome editing being used for enhancement purposes – somatic or germline – has arisen in the WHO report (2021). In my paper\, I wish to confine myself to talking about one subset of potential\, complex human enhancements by use of genome editing (such as intelligence). In some such cases\, I contend that we may always be dealing more with beliefs in enhancement rather than the notion of enhancement itself. Furthermore\, I argue that - in such cases - even if there was no enhancement in fact\, the effects of a false belief in the enhancement could have enhancing effects. Hence\, a potential phenomenon of what I call ‘Placebo enhancements’ may arise – not genuine in actual change in targeted function\, but genuine in overall enhancing effects. And those real effects (even if based on this initial placebo effect) can pose novel and difficult challenges for ethical and social justice considerations. ATTACH:https://www.philosophie.hhu.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Fakultaeten/Philosophische_Fakultaet/Philosophie/News_Philosophie/2024/Plakat_Institutskolloquium_12.Juni_2024_Oliver_Feeny.pdf ATTACH:https://www.philosophie.hhu.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Fakultaeten/Philosophische_Fakultaet/Philosophie/News_Philosophie/2024/Institutskolloquium_SoSe24.pdf END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR