Reflexions Sur Lhumanisme Le Posthumanisme Et Les Technosciences

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Réflexions sur l'humanisme, le posthumanisme et les technosciences

Author : Sébastien Brousseau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Réflexions sur l'humanisme, le posthumanisme et les technosciences written by Sébastien Brousseau and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantité de réflexions et de discussions sont en cours au sujet de ce qu'est au juste l'intelligence artificielle et de ce qu'il adviendra de nous, les humains, dans la foulée de son émergence. Tout comme les nanotechnologies, les biotechnologies, la robotique et les autres technologies émergentes, souvent regroupées sous le néologisme technosciences, l'intelligence artificielle est source de spéculation et d'inquiétude concernant la nature de la technique et son impact sur la nature de l'homme. Certains humanistes romantiques pensent que ce que nous sommes pourrait être diminué ou perdu, que la subjectivité humaine est et continuera d'être érodée par la prolifération de processus artificiels de plus en plus autonomes. Certains transhumanistes, de leur côté, provoquent et invoquent ces transformations, les considérant comme des explorations légitimes et souhaitables de nouvelles possibilités et optimisations. L'exercice que ce mémoire propose est de superposer à une présentation de l'IA contemporaine une exploration théorique plus large des notions de technosciences, d'humanisme et de posthumanisme. Pour ce faire, nous présenterons les thèses de trois auteurs qui partagent la crainte de la diminution et de la dénaturation de l'humain dans la foulée de l'émergence des théories cybernétiques et de la recherche et développement technoscientifique. Nous explorerons ensuite un éventail de pensées et réflexions qui nuancent ou contredisent ces thèses. Car si les technologies émergentes nous poussent à mettre en doute notre propre importance et pointent vers notre potentielle obsolescence, elles rendent aussi possibles un éventail d'expériences et de manifestations nouvelles. À travers l'exploration de la notion d'anthropocentrisme chère à l'humanisme, à celle de la co-évolution humain-technologie mise de l'avant par les théoriciens posthumanistes, l'objectif de ce mémoire est d'exposer et d'expliciter les éléments théoriques qui nous semblent centraux à l'exploration de la relation entre l'humain et les technologies émergentes.

Philosophy in a Time of Terror

Author : Giovanna Borradori
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226066657
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy in a Time of Terror written by Giovanna Borradori and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for Philosophy in a Time of Terror was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate the significance of the most destructive terrorist act ever perpetrated. This book marks an unprecedented encounter between two of the most influential thinkers of our age as here, for the first time, Habermas and Derrida overcome their mutual antagonism and agree to appear side by side. As the two philosophers disassemble and reassemble what we think we know about terrorism, they break from the familiar social and political rhetoric increasingly polarized between good and evil. In this process, we watch two of the greatest intellects of the century at work.

Citizen Cyborg

Author : James Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0786722916
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Citizen Cyborg written by James Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2004-10-27 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative work by medical ethicist James Hughes, Citizen Cyborg argues that technologies pushing the boundaries of humanness can radically improve our quality of life if they are controlled democratically. Hughes challenges both the technophobia of Leon Kass and Francis Fukuyama and the unchecked enthusiasm of others for limitless human enhancement. He argues instead for a third way, "democratic transhumanism," by asking the question destined to become a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century: How can we use new cybernetic and biomedical technologies to make life better for everyone? These technologies hold great promise, but they also pose profound challenges to our health, our culture, and our liberal democratic political system. By allowing humans to become more than human - "posthuman" or "transhuman" - the new technologies will require new answers for the enduring issues of liberty and the common good. What limits should we place on the freedom of people to control their own bodies? Who should own genes and other living things? Which technologies should be mandatory, which voluntary, and which forbidden? For answers to these challenges, Citizen Cyborg proposes a radical return to a faith in the resilience of our democratic institutions.

The Sociology of Hope

Author : Henri Desroche
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Hope written by Henri Desroche and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on hope as a religious phenomenon, as the inspiration for various kinds of millenarianism, their cults of possession and utopian experiments. Drawing in particular on anthropology and the sociology of religion, the author presents a survey of millenarianism in many cultures, including Judaism, Islam and the early Christians. He also considers more recent millenarianisms such as the Fifth Monarchy Men, the Mormons, the Doukhobors and 'Black Messiah' movements in the Third World. He goes on to indicate the relationships between revolutionary ideologies and religious messianism, and points to the contrast between older movements, which were predominantly religious, and more recent forms of millenarianism, which tend to be social in character. He stresses, however, that both have or had a common aim -- the achievement of a perfect society.

Fantastic Voyage

Author : Ray Kurzweil
Publisher : Rodale
ISBN 13 : 0452286670
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Voyage written by Ray Kurzweil and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading scientist and an expert on human longevity explain how new discoveries in the fields of genomics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology could radically extend the human life expectancy and enhance physical and mental abilities, and introduce a cutting-edge program designed to enhance the immune system and slow the aging process on a cellular level. Reprint.

Creation Or Evolution

Author : Denis Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857215789
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Creation Or Evolution written by Denis Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few issues engender so much heat between Christians as the topic of creation. Reasonable, calm, and supremely well informed, this is a book written by someone who is passionate about both science and the Bible. 'I hope,' says Denis Alexander, 'that reading it will encourage you to believe, as I do, that the 'Book of God's Word' and the 'Book of God's Works' can be held firmly together in harmony.' This substantial new edition updates the science, and extends the author's discussion of the theological implications.

New Bottles for New Wine

Author : Julian Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book New Bottles for New Wine written by Julian Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays and addresses on man's new knowledge in the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities, from the viewpoint of an evolutionary humanist.

I am Not a Brain

Author : Markus Gabriel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509514783
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book I am Not a Brain written by Markus Gabriel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many consider the nature of human consciousness to be one of the last great unsolved mysteries. Why should the light turn on, so to speak, in human beings at all? And how is the electrical storm of neurons under our skull connected with our consciousness? Is the self only our brain's user interface, a kind of stage on which a show is performed that we cannot freely direct? In this book, philosopher Markus Gabriel challenges an increasing trend in the sciences towards neurocentrism, a notion which rests on the assumption that the self is identical to the brain. Gabriel raises serious doubts as to whether we can know ourselves in this way. In a sharp critique of this approach, he presents a new defense of the free will and provides a timely introduction to philosophical thought about the self – all with verve, humor, and surprising insights. Gabriel criticizes the scientific image of the world and takes us on an eclectic journey of self-reflection by way of such concepts as self, consciousness, and freedom, with the aid of Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nagel but also Dr. Who, The Walking Dead, and Fargo.

Man's Place in Nature

Author : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (s.j.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Man's Place in Nature written by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (s.j.) and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Happiness and Benevolence

Author : Robert Spaemann
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567042316
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Happiness and Benevolence written by Robert Spaemann and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-03-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian philosopher Robert Spaemann takes the reader on a quest for the fundamental principles of ethics. Writing in a clear style accessible to non-specialists, drawing both on ancient and modern philosophy, from Aristotle, Plato and Aquinas to Kant and Hegel, he discovers the intimate relationship between ethics and ontology - the science of being. This book is written for theologians as well as philosophers - indeed for anyone who is concerned with the meaning of a 'life well lived', with good and evil and the search for happiness.

Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative

Author : Sonia Baelo-Allué
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000374017
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative written by Sonia Baelo-Allué and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative brings together fifteen scholars from five different countries to explore the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in contemporary culture and more specifically in key narratives, written in the second decade of the 21st century, by Dave Eggers, William Gibson, John Shirley, Tom McCarthy, Jeff Vandermeer, Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, Cixin Liu and Helen Marshall. Some of these works engage in the premises and perils of transhumanism, while others explore the qualities of the (post)human in a variety of dystopian futures marked by the planetary influence of human action. From a critical posthumanist perspective that questions anthropocentrism, human exceptionalism and the centrality of the ‘human’ subject in the era of the Anthropocene, the scholars in this collection analyse the aesthetic choices these authors make to depict the posthuman and its aftereffects.

Designer Evolution

Author : Simon Young
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615920579
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Designer Evolution written by Simon Young and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young presents a polemical espousal of transhumanist philosophy and a trenchant attack on its critics, the "Bio-Luddites." The author calls for a rejection of premodern superstition and postmodern nihilism in favor of a renewed belief in human progress through scientific rationality.

Robot

Author : Hans P. Moravec
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195136302
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Robot written by Hans P. Moravec and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling book, Hans Moravec predicts that machines will attain human levels of intelligence by the year 2040, and that by 2050, they will surpass us. But even though Moravec predicts the end of the domination by human beings, his is not a bleak vision. Far from railing against a future in which machines rule the world, Moravec embraces it, taking the startling view that intelligent robots will actually be our evolutionary heirs. "Intelligent machines, which will grow from us, learn our skills, and share our goals and values, can be viewed as children of our minds." And since they are our children, we will want them to outdistance us. In fact, in a bid for immortality, many of our descendants will choose to transform into "ex humans," as they upload themselves into advanced computers. This provocative new book, the highly anticipated follow-up to his bestselling volume Mind Children, charts the trajectory of robotics in breathtaking detail. A must read for artificial intelligence, technology, and computer enthusiasts, Moravec's freewheeling but informed speculations present a future far different than we ever dared imagine.

Enhancing Evolution

Author : John Harris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400836387
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Enhancing Evolution written by John Harris and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Enhancing Evolution, leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and cloning and makes an ethical case for biotechnology that is both forthright and rigorous. Human enhancement, Harris argues, is a good thing--good morally, good for individuals, good as social policy, and good for a genetic heritage that needs serious improvement. Enhancing Evolution defends biotechnological interventions that could allow us to live longer, healthier, and even happier lives by, for example, providing us with immunity from cancer and HIV/AIDS. Further, Harris champions the possibility of influencing the very course of evolution to give us increased mental and physical powers--from reasoning, concentration, and memory to strength, stamina, and reaction speed. Indeed, he says, it's not only morally defensible to enhance ourselves; in some cases, it's morally obligatory. In a new preface, Harris offers a glimpse at the new science and technology to come, equipping readers with the knowledge to assess the ethics and policy dimensions of future forms of human enhancement.

The Ethics of Human Enhancement

Author : Steve Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019875485X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Human Enhancement written by Steve Clarke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We humans can enhance some of our mental and physical abilities above the normal upper limits for our species with the use of particular drug therapies and medical procedures. We will be able to enhance many more of our abilities in more ways in the near future. Some commentators have welcomed the prospect of wide use of human enhancement technologies, while others have viewed it with alarm, and have made clear that they find human enhancement morally objectionable. The Ethics of Human Enhancement examines whether the reactions can be supported by articulated philosophical reasoning, or perhaps explained in terms of psychological influences on moral reasoning. An international team of ethicists refresh the debate with new ideas and arguments, making connections with scientific research and with related issues in moral philosophy.

Composition No. 1

Author : Marc Saporta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956569226
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (692 download)

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Visions of Politics: Volume 1, Regarding Method

Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139433180
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Politics: Volume 1, Regarding Method written by Quentin Skinner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of seminal essays Professor Skinner sets forth the intellectual principles that inform his work. Writing as a practising historian, he considers the theoretical difficulties inherent in the pursuit of knowledge and interpretation, and elucidates the methodology which finds its expression in his two successive volumes. All of Professor Skinner's work is characterised by philosophical power, limpid clarity, and elegance of exposition; these essays, many of which are now recognised classics, provide a fascinating and convenient digest of the development of his thought. Professor Skinner has been awarded the Balzan Prize Life Time Achievement Award for Political Thought, History and Theory. Full details of this award can be found at http://www.balzan.it/News_eng.aspx?ID=2474