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Realist responses to post-human society : ex maChina / edited by Ismael Al-Amoudi and Jamie Morgan.

Contributor(s): Al-Amoudi, Ismaël [editor.] | Morgan, Jamie, 1969- [editor.] | Taylor and FrancisMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: Future of the human: Copyright date: ©2019Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018]Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (210 pages) : 10 illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781351233705Subject(s): SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General | Human beings -- Philosophy | Humanism | Technology -- Social aspects -- PhilosophyAdditional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 144 LOC classification: B821 | .R385 2018Online resources: Click here to view.

Contents:

chapter 1 Introduction: Post-humanism in morphogenic societies / ISMAEL AL-AMOUDI AND JAMIE MORGAN -- chapter 2 Bodies, persons and human enhancement: Why these distinctions matter / MARGARET S. ARCHER -- chapter 3 Vulcans, Klingons, and humans: What does humanism encompass? / DOUGLAS V. PORPORA -- chapter 4 Transcending the human: Why, where, and how? / PIERPAOLO DONATI -- chapter 5 Yesterday’s tomorrow today: Turing, Searle and the contested signiﬁcance of artiﬁcial intelligence / JAMIE MORGAN -- chapter 6 Trans-human (life-)time: Emergent biographies and the ‘deep change’ in personal reﬂexivity / ANDREA M. MACCARINI -- chapter 7 The evisceration of the human under digital capitalism / MARK CARRIGAN -- chapter 8 Management and dehumanisation in late modernity / ISMAEL AL-AMOUDI.

Abstract: 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.

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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.