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Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science

Author : Robert Frodeman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429581262
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science written by Robert Frodeman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a social, political, and aesthetic critique of transhumanism and of the accelerating growth of scientific knowledge generally. Rather than improving our lives, science and technology today increasingly leave us debilitated and infantilized. It is time to restrain the runaway ambitions of technoscientific knowledge. The transhumanist goal of human enhancement encapsulates a range of dangerous social pathologies. Like transhumanism itself, these pathologies are rooted in, or in reaction to, the ethos of ‘more’. It’s a cultural love affair with excess, which is prompted by the libertarian standards of our cultural productions. But the attempt to live at the speed of an electron is destined for failure. In response, the author offers a naturalistic account of human flourishing where we attend to the natural rhythms of life. The interdisciplinary orientation of Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science makes it relevant to scholars and students across a wide range of disciplines, including social and political philosophy, philosophy of technology, science and technology studies, environmental studies, and public policy.

Transhumanism, science Merchants and the Future of Man

Author : Ebénézer Njoh Mouelle
Publisher : Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN 13 : 2140084578
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Transhumanism, science Merchants and the Future of Man written by Ebénézer Njoh Mouelle and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author proposes a synthesis of the ideas of « Transhumanism » and critical analyzes inspired by a refreshing Bergsonism. He writes to take a part in the debate on the futur of humanity, sparked by the scientific-philosophical movement that bears this name, started in the United States and which is beginning to move the European intelligentsia. He also writes to sensitize an african opinion far unaware of these preoccupations that concern all humankind.

The Philosophy of Transhumanism

Author : Benjamin Ross
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 183982624X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Transhumanism written by Benjamin Ross and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transhumanism is an international movement which anticipates humans developing posthuman capacities in the near future.This work provides an introduction to transhumanism and the ethical and philosophical issues raised by radical human enhancement. The book investigates these questions in a way that is timely and accessible to the non-specialist.

Transhumanism

Author : Jean-Pierre Fillard
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9789811212109
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Transhumanism written by Jean-Pierre Fillard and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transhuman, or trans-human, is the concept of an intermediary form between human and posthuman. In other words, a transhuman is a being that resembles a human in most respects but who has powers and abilities beyond those of standard humans. These abilities might include improved intelligence, awareness, strength, or durability. Transhumans sometimes appear in science-fiction as cyborgs or genetically-enhanced humans. This book will look into the question "Can machines think?" followed by "Can humans extend their lifespan and keep up with machines?" In other words, do we (humans) have to modify ourselves to be bionic humans, to co-exist and make the most of machines in future?

Transhumanism

Author : J. P. Fillard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789811211393
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Transhumanism written by J. P. Fillard and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Transhuman, or trans-human, is the concept of an intermediary form between human and posthuman. In other words, a transhuman is a being that resembles a human in most respects but who has powers and abilities beyond those of standard humans. These abilities might include improved intelligence, awareness, strength, or durability. Transhumans sometimes appear in science-fiction as cyborgs or genetically-enhanced humans. This book will look into the question "Can machines think?" followed by "Can humans extend their lifespan and keep up with machines?" In other words, do we (humans) have to modify ourselves to be bionic humans, to co-exist and make the most of machines in future?"--

Transhuman Citizen

Author : Ben Murnane
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803415541
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Transhuman Citizen written by Ben Murnane and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of America's zaniest presidential candidate - who wants to turn the whole population into cyborgs. It's a true story... stranger than fiction. “Don't stand there!” Zoltan almost stepped on a landmine. He was in Vietnam, reporting for National Geographic. If his guide hadn't warned him--he'd be dead. Zoltan didn't want to die. Who does? But Zoltan realized something else just then. He didn't want to die ever... In fact, he didn't want anyone to die ever again. It's an idea he's been pushing now for years. He's a leader in the “transhumanism” movement, which wants to merge humans with machines. Zoltan drove a bus shaped like a coffin across the US, to teach people about the new frontiers of science that mean death is not inevitable. His presidential campaigns have attracted global attention... Imagine there were no diseases, because science had cured them all. Imagine storing your mind in a computer... Living longer than you ever expected--for hundreds of years. This is the extraordinary story of Zoltan's war on death.

Transhumanism, Ethics and the Therapeutic Revolution

Author : Stephen Goundrey-Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000842622
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Transhumanism, Ethics and the Therapeutic Revolution by : Stephen Goundrey-Smith

Download or read book Transhumanism, Ethics and the Therapeutic Revolution written by Stephen Goundrey-Smith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the impact of developments in pharmaceutical medicine in the twentieth century on a Christian ethical evaluation of transhumanism and future "hi-tech" medical enhancement technologies. It suggests that the Christian ethical assessment of proposed future radical transhumanist biomedical technologies should be conducted in the light of responses to past medical advances. Two specific case studies are featured, focusing on the oral contraceptive pill and on Prozac and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants. Whilst future biomedical technologies may have therapeutic benefits for the relief of disease and contribute to improving human health and welfare, the book considers the implications for society and their acceptability as therapies from a Christian perspective. Stressing the inadequacy of natural law alone, the author proposes an ethical framework for assessing novel biomedical technologies according to the effects on personal autonomy, embodiment and bodily life, and on the imago Dei.

Transhumanism as a Challenge for Ethics and Religion

Author : Robert Petkovsek
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643912978
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Transhumanism as a Challenge for Ethics and Religion written by Robert Petkovsek and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crucial question of our time is: How to preserve humanity, humanitas, in a world of radical and not so long ago practically unimaginable technological possibilities? The book addresses this issue through its treatment of transhumanism, a diverse movement the representatives of which promise and advocate for the enhancement of human being through modern science, technology, and pharmacology. Their views differ in the degree of extremity, and they contain many ambiguities, as well as pitfalls and dangers that require an answer from both ethical and religious points of view. The book deepens the understanding of transhumanism in an interdisciplinary way and thus helps to form the right attitude towards it that will truly benefit human flourishing. It offers a rich variety of views on transhumanism, ranging from its illumination in the light of contemporary research into happiness, through liberal eugenics and biopolitics, all the way to its considerations in terms of religions and manifestations in concrete works of art.

We Have Always Been Cyborgs

Author : Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529219205
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book We Have Always Been Cyborgs written by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visionary new book explores the critical issues that link transhumanism with digitalisation, gene technologies and ethics. It examines the history and meaning of transhumanism, offering insightful reflections on values, norms and utopia.

Visions of Technological Transcendence

Author : James A. Herrick
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 160235877X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Visions of Technological Transcendence by : James A. Herrick

Download or read book Visions of Technological Transcendence written by James A. Herrick and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines key narratives animating the techno-progressive rhetoric of the human enhancement movement, arguing that enhancement and transhumanist discourse performs a variety of distinctly mythic functions. Principal among these is to cast a vision of a technological future involving enhanced posthumans, immortality, human merger with machines and space colonization.

Perfecting Human Futures

Author : J. Benjamin Hurlbut
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658110449
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book Perfecting Human Futures written by J. Benjamin Hurlbut and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans have always imagined better futures. From the desire to overcome death to the aspiration to dominion over the world, imaginations of the technological future reveal the commitments, values, and norms of those who construct them. Today, the human future is thrown into question by emerging technologies that promise radical control over human life and elicit corollary imaginations of human perfectibility. This interdisciplinary volume assembles scholars of science and technology studies, sociology, philosophy, theology, ethics, and history to examine imaginations of technological progress that promises to transcend the constraints of human body and being. Attending in particular to transhumanist and posthumanist visions, the volume breaks new ground by exploring their utopian and eschatological dimensions and situating them within a broader context of ideas, institutions, and practices of innovation. The volume invites specialists and general readers to explore the stakes of contemporary imaginations of technological innovation as a source of progress, a force of social and historical transformation, and as the defining essence of human life.

Transhumanism

Author : David Livingstone
Publisher : David Livingstone
ISBN 13 : 1515232573
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Transhumanism written by David Livingstone and published by David Livingstone. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transhumanism is a recent movement that extols man’s right to shape his own evolution, by maximizing the use of scientific technologies, to enhance human physical and intellectual potential. While the name is new, the idea has long been a popular theme of science fiction, featured in such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, the Terminator series, and more recently, The Matrix, Limitless, Her and Transcendence. However, as its adherents hint at in their own publications, transhumanism is an occult project, rooted in Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, and derived from the Kabbalah, which asserts that humanity is evolving intellectually, towards a point in time when man will become God. Modeled on the medieval legend of the Golem and Frankenstein, they believe man will be able to create life itself, in the form of living machines, or artificial intelligence. Spearheaded by the Cybernetics Group, the project resulted in both the development of the modern computer and MK-Ultra, the CIA’s “mind-control” program. MK-Ultra promoted the “mind-expanding” potential of psychedelic drugs, to shape the counterculture of the 1960s, based on the notion that the shamans of ancient times used psychoactive substances, equated with the “apple” of the Tree of Knowledge. And, as revealed in the movie Lucy, through the use of “smart drugs,” and what transhumanists call “mind uploading,” man will be able to merge with the Internet, which is envisioned as the end-point of Kabbalistic evolution, the formation of a collective consciousness, or Global Brain. That awaited moment is what Ray Kurzweil, a director of engineering at Google, refers to as The Singularly. By accumulating the total of human knowledge, and providing access to every aspect of human activity, the Internet will supposedly achieve omniscience, becoming the “God” of occultism, or the Masonic All-Seeing Eye of the reverse side of the American dollar bill.

On Transhumanism

Author : Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271087931
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book On Transhumanism written by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines widespread myths about transhumanism and explores the most pressing ethical issues in the debate over technologically assisted human enhancement.

What Does it Mean to be Human? Life, Death, Personhood and the Transhumanist Movement

Author : D. John Doyle
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319949500
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book What Does it Mean to be Human? Life, Death, Personhood and the Transhumanist Movement written by D. John Doyle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical examination of the philosophical and moral issues in relation to human enhancement and the various related medical developments that are now rapidly moving from the laboratory into the clinical realm. In the book, the author critically examines technologies such as genetic engineering, neural implants, pharmacologic enhancement, and cryonic suspension from transhumanist and bioconservative positions, focusing primarily on moral issues and what it means to be a human in a setting where technological interventions sometimes impact strongly on our humanity. The author also introduces the notion that death is a process rather than an event, as well as identifies philosophical and clinical limitations in the contemporary determination of brain death as a precursor to organ procurement for transplantation. The discussion on what exactly it means to be dead is later applied to explore philosophical and clinical issues germane to the cryonics movement. Written by a physician/ scientist and heavily referenced to the peer-reviewed medical and scientific literature, the book is aimed at advanced students and academics but should be readable by any intelligent reader willing to carry out some side-reading. No prior knowledge of moral philosophy is assumed, as the various key approaches to moral philosophy are outlined early in the book.

Transhumanism and the Image of God

Author : Jacob Shatzer
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830865780
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Transhumanism and the Image of God written by Jacob Shatzer and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the transhumanist movement, biblical ethicist Jacob Shatzer grapples with the potential for technology to transform the way we think about what it means to be human. Exploring the doctrine of incarnation and topics such as artificial intelligence, robotics, medical technology, and communications tools, he guides us into careful consideration of the future of Christian discipleship in a disruptive technological environment.

The Proactionary Imperative

Author : S. Fuller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137302925
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Proactionary Imperative written by S. Fuller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Proactionary Imperative debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species, our capacity to 'play God', the idea that we might treat our genes as a capital investment, eugenics and what it might mean to be 'human' in the context of risky scientific and technological interventions.

H±

Author : Gregory R. Hansell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781456815660
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book H± written by Gregory R. Hansell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity+/-: Transhumanism and Its Critics brings together sixteen of the foremost advocates and critics of transhumanism to debate the promises and perils of bioengineering an improved humanity. As it turns out, transhumanism is a catalyst for profound philosophical and theological inquiry. If the idea of a fixed human nature no longer applies, can we still speak of humane dignities and essential human rights? Should we try to limit the development of certain technologies? Is it even possible? Are the new sciences and technologies hailed by transhumanists just wishful thinking? And which utopic and dystopic visions have the power to motivate us to build a more wholesome, just, and sustainable tomorrow? This volume does much to advance critical dialogue on the future course of our species and our planet.