Epistemological and Moral Challenges with Human Enhancement

We are going to give neither an intensional definition of the concept of human enhancement nor are we going to attempt to build a collection that contains all the possible interventions (extensional). Our analysis draws on an overall meaning of human enhancement as scientific and technological progress that expands the possibilities of human action and reduces its dependence on natural or cultural predetermined constraints, allowing the human condition to be changed via science and technology. Human enhancement thus refers to extended cognitive skills, extended sensory capacities, a significant increase in life expectancy, mood modulation as well as new capabilities that might be provided to healthy individuals.Rather than dealing with the definitional issue, we aim to sketch out the epistemological and moral underpinnings of the debate on human enhancement in order to provide a demarcationof issues regarding human enhancement.