Realist Responses to Post-Human Society : Ex Machina
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Realist Responses to Post-Human Society : Ex Machina
(The future of the human)
Routledge, 2019
- : pbk
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"First iuused in paperback 2019"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This volume is the first of a trilogy which investigates, from a broadly realist perspective, the place, and challenges, of the human in contemporary social orders. The authors, all members of the Centre for Social Ontology, ask what is specific about humanity's nature and worth, and what are their main challenges in contemporary societies?
Examining the ways in which recent advances in technology threaten to blur and displace the boundaries constitutive of our shared humanity, Realist Responses to Post-Human Society: Ex Machina explores the philosophical and ethical questions raised by these developments, and discusses the dangers posed by the combination of transhumanism with post-humanist social theories and antihumanist practices, institutions and ideologies.
Table of Contents
- List of Contributors 1. Introduction: Post-humanism in Morphogenic Societies (Ismael Al-Amoudi and Jamie Morgan) 2. Bodies, Persons and Human Enhancement
- Why these distinctions matter (Margaret S. Archer) 3. Vulcans, Klingons, and Humans: What Does Humanism Encompass? (Douglas V. Porpora) 4. Transcending the Human: Why, Where, and How? (Pierpaolo Donati) 5. Yesterday's tomorrow today: Turing, Searle and the contested significance of Artificial Intelligence (Jamie Morgan) 6. Trans-Human (Life-)Time: Emergent Biographies and the 'Deep Change' in Personal Reflexivity (Andrea M. Maccarini) 7. The Evisceration of the Human Under Digital Capitalism (Mark Carrigan) 8. Management and dehumanisation in Late Modernity (Ismael Al-Amoudi) Index
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