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ISBN 13 : 9788491236450
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (364 download)
Download or read book ¿Transhumanismo o posthumanidad? written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Manuel Crespo Rodríguez
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ISBN 13 : 9781070926100
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Transhumanismo, un Tipo de Posthumanismo written by Manuel Crespo Rodríguez and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro es la culminación de varios años reflexionando sobre la temática del transhumanismo. Contiene en sí varios ensayos con la temática común del transhumanismo y se dividen en tres tipos de análisis: sociológico, artístico y filosófico. Se abordan temáticas como la política transhumanista estadounidense, arquetipos míticos dentro de obras de ficción de temática transhumanista, discusiones generales de asuntos bioéticos, la dirección de los paradigmas que se debaten, discusiones filosóficas sobre la naturaleza humana, entre muchos otros asuntos.
Author : Gregory R. Hansell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456815679
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (568 download)
Download or read book H+/- written by Gregory R. Hansell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Federico Eleazar Quilodrán
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304157962
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Buenos Días Justicia written by Federico Eleazar Quilodrán and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-17 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novela, ambientada en un escenario mundial, donde la parte y los detalles siempre pretenderán representar el todo, es narrada haciendo pensar y actuar a variados personajes, desde un terrorista, pasando por el alcalde de un pequeño pueblo, hasta un grupo de especialistas. A veces las computadoras también dicen lo suyo. Buenos días justicia resulta ser interrogante principal frente a conceptos y contradicciones referentes a daño causado, venganza y justicia. ¿Podrá aquel que dicta justicia abstraerse de remordimientos? Ningún protagonista es irreal, con poco esfuerzo si el lector se lo propone puede encontrarlo, tanto los "buenos" como los "malos". Otra vez el lector puede interpretar a su antojo el bien y el mal, haciendo uso interesado por supuesto de "sus ideas fijas" con lo cual se estaría demostrando algunas de las aseveraciones del texto.
Author : Claus Zittel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004170502
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Philosophies of Technology written by Claus Zittel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in the present volume attempt to historically reconstruct the various dependencies of philosophical and scientific knowledge of the material and technical culture of the early modern era and to draw systematic conclusions for the writing of early modern history of science. The divisive transformation of humanist scholarly culture, the Scholastic school philosophy, as well as magic in the form of a philosophy of practice is always associated with the work of Francis Bacon. All of these essays in this volume reflect the close interaction between technical models and knowledge production in natural philosophy, natural history and epistemology. It becomes clear that the technological developments of the early modern era cannot be adequately depicted in the form of a pure history of technology but rather only as part of a broader, cultural history of the sciences. Contributors include: Todd Andrew Borlik, Arianna Borrelli, Thomas Brandstetter, Daniel Damler, Luisa Dolza, Moritz Epple, Berthold Heinecke, Dana Jalobeanu, J rgen Klein, Staffan M ller-Wille, Romano Nanni, Jarmo Pulkkinen, Pablo Schneider, Andr s Vaccari, Benjamin Wardhaugh, Sophie Weeks, and Claus Zittel.
Author : Dan Tunstall Pedoe
Publisher : The Royal Society of Medicine
ISBN 13 : 1853154601
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Marathon Medicine written by Dan Tunstall Pedoe and published by The Royal Society of Medicine. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading experts in the field examine the physiology, psychology and medical aspects of long distance running, focusing on the significant developments in this area over the past 25 years. Topics include: the history of endurance training; the social phenomenon of marathon running; marathon myths and medicine; the effects of ageing; and the dominance of African runners.
Author : Steve Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019875485X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
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.
Author : Steven Horst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198043155
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Beyond Reduction written by Steven Horst and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary philosophers of mind tend to assume that the world of nature can be reduced to basic physics. Yet there are features of the mind consciousness, intentionality, normativity that do not seem to be reducible to physics or neuroscience. This explanatory gap between mind and brain has thus been a major cause of concern in recent philosophy of mind. Reductionists hold that, despite all appearances, the mind can be reduced to the brain. Eliminativists hold that it cannot, and that this implies that there is something illegitimate about the mentalistic vocabulary. Dualists hold that the mental is irreducible, and that this implies either a substance or a property dualism. Mysterian non-reductive physicalists hold that the mind is uniquely irreducible, perhaps due to some limitation of our self-understanding. In this book, Steven Horst argues that this whole conversation is based on assumptions left over from an outdated philosophy of science. While reductionism was part of the philosophical orthodoxy fifty years ago, it has been decisively rejected by philosophers of science over the past thirty years, and for good reason. True reductions are in fact exceedingly rare in the sciences, and the conviction that they were there to be found was an artifact of armchair assumptions of 17th century Rationalists and 20th century Logical Empiricists. The explanatory gaps between mind and brain are far from unique. In fact, in the sciences it is gaps all the way down.And if reductions are rare in even the physical sciences, there is little reason to expect them in the case of psychology. Horst argues that this calls for a complete re-thinking of the contemporary problematic in philosophy of mind. Reductionism, dualism, eliminativism and non-reductive materialism are each severely compromised by post-reductionist philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind is in need of a new paradigm. Horst suggests that such a paradigm might be found in Cognitive Pluralism: the view that human cognitive architecture constrains us to understand the world through a plurality of partial, idealized, and pragmatically-constrained models, each employing a particular representational system optimized for its own problem domain. Such an architecture can explain the disunities of knowledge, and is plausible on evolutionary grounds.
Author : Sahotra Sarkar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521637138
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (371 download)
Download or read book Genetics and Reductionism written by Sahotra Sarkar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advent of the Human Genome Project there have been many claims for the genetic origins of complex human behavior including insanity, criminality, and intelligence. But what does it really mean to call something 'genetic'? This is the fundamental question that Sahotra Sarkar's book addresses. The author analyses the nature of reductionism in classical and molecular genetics. He shows that there are two radically different kinds of reductionist explanation: genetic reduction (as found in classical genetics) and physical reduction (found in molecular genetics). This important book clarifies the meaning of the term 'genetic', shows how molecular studies have affected genetics, and provides the philosophical background necessary to understand the debates over the Human Genome Project. It will be of particular interest to professionals and students in the philosophy of science, the history of science, and the social studies of science, medicine, and technology.
Author : Lisa Campo-Engelstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783319894300
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (943 download)
Download or read book Reproductive Ethics II written by Lisa Campo-Engelstein and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second collection of essays on reproductive ethics from Drs. Campo-Engelstein and Burcher. This volume is unique in that it is both timely and includes several essays on new technologies, while also being a comprehensive review of most of the major questions in the field, from racial disparities in reproductive healthcare to gene editing and the possibility of the creation of a transhuman species. The scholars writing these essays are pre-eminent in their fields, and their backgrounds are quite varied, including philosophers, anthropologists, physicians, and professors of law. Reproductive ethics remains an underdeveloped area of bioethics despite the recent technological breakthroughs that carry both great promise and potential threats. Building on the first volume of work from a conference held just over one year ago, this new collection of essays from a conference held April 2017 continues this discussion as well as provides ethical insights and reviews of these emerging technologies. The ethical questions swirling around human reproduction are both old and new, but the conference presentations, and the essays derived from them, focus on new ways of appreciating old arguments such as the ethics of abortion, as well as new ways of seeing new technologies such as CRISPR and mitochondrial transfer.
Author : Claude Kramer
Publisher : MB Cooltura
ISBN 13 : 9877448041
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (774 download)
Download or read book Inteligencia Artificial y el fin de la humanidad written by Claude Kramer and published by MB Cooltura. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En ocasión de la inauguración del Centro Leverhulme para el Futuro de la Inteligencia en la Universidad de Harvard, el astrofísico Stephen Hawking resumió sus preocupaciones en la siguiente frase: "El surgimiento de una poderosa inteligencia artificial será lo mejor o lo peor que le haya pasado a la humanidad, todavía no lo sabemos". En esta frase radica el modo en que podemos aproximarnos a la Inteligencia Artificial: abrirnos paso en un camino que se encuentra entre el entusiasmo y la cautela, entre la maravilla y el terror.
Author : James Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0786722916
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
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.
Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : MultiMedia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 6060336701
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)
Download or read book The Adventures of Pinocchio - A story for adults written by Nicolae Sfetcu and published by MultiMedia Publishing. This book was released on with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most widely read books in the world, considered a metaphor for the human condition, and suitable for a variety of interpretations, The Adventures of Pinocchio has had a major impact on world culture. The book responds to a prerogative that belongs only to masterpieces: that of being out of time. The book focuses on the psychological investigation of his central character Pinocchio, while trying to discover a humanity lost in the vacuum of technology and science. The myth of Pinocchio is used to condemn the culture of violence and consumerism. Collodi successfully uses metaphorical interactions, bipolarities, and ambiguous miracles. Pinocchio's identity is often played to the limit, imagined by himself and everyone he meets along the way. Pinocchio is the name of life that is simultaneously inorganic, human and animal. The Adventures of Pinocchio explore how experiences gained in heterotopic space give the individual the ability to change panoramic vision, and how these experiences can ultimately show us how we can recover or restore our existence as individual subjects. CONTENTS: Abstract Carlo Collodi The Adventures of Pinocchio Pinocchio The Myth The Psychology The Duality The Heterotopy The Identity Artificial Intelligence The Humanism The Becoming The Demiurge The Education Bibliography DOI: DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.20541.38887
Author : Steven Horst
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262552612
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Cognitive Pluralism written by Steven Horst and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that we understand the world through many special-purpose mental models of different content domains, and an exploration of the philosophical implications. Philosophers have traditionally assumed that the basic units of knowledge and understanding are concepts, beliefs, and argumentative inferences. In Cognitive Pluralism, Steven Horst proposes that another sort of unit—a mental model of a content domain—is the fundamental unit of understanding. He argues that understanding comes not in word-sized concepts, sentence-sized beliefs, or argument-sized reasoning but in the form of idealized models and in domain-sized chunks. He argues further that this idea of “cognitive pluralism”—the claim that we understand the world through many such models of a variety of content domains—sheds light on a number of problems in philosophy. Horst first presents the “standard view” of cognitive architecture assumed in mainstream epistemology, semantics, truth theory, and theory of reasoning. He then explains the notion of a mental model as an internal surrogate that mirrors features of its target domain, and puts it in the context of ideas in psychology, philosophy of science, artificial intelligence, and theoretical cognitive science. Finally, he argues that the cognitive pluralist view not only helps to explain puzzling disunities of knowledge but also raises doubts about the feasibility of attempts to “unify” the sciences; presents a model-based account of intuitive judgments; and contends that cognitive pluralism favors a reliabilist epistemology and a “molecularist” semantics. Horst suggests that cognitive pluralism allows us to view rival epistemological and semantic theories not as direct competitors but as complementary accounts, each an idealized model of different dimensions of evaluation.
Author : Ronald Cole-Turner
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1589017943
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Transhumanism and Transcendence written by Ronald Cole-Turner and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The timeless human desire to be more beautiful, intelligent, healthy, athletic, or young has given rise in our time to technologies of human enhancement. Athletes use drugs to increase their strength or stamina; cosmetic surgery is widely used to improve physical appearance; millions of men take drugs like Viagra to enhance sexual performance. And today researchers are exploring technologies such as cell regeneration and implantable devices that interact directly with the brain. Some condemn these developments as a new kind of cheating—not just in sports but in life itself—promising rewards without effort and depriving us most of all of what it means to be authentic human beings. “Transhumanists,” on the other hand, reject what they see as a rationalizing of human limits, as if being human means being content forever with underachieving bodies and brains. To be human, they insist, is to be restless with possibilities, always eager to transcend biological limits. As the debate grows in urgency, how should theology respond? Christian theologians recognize truth on both sides of the argument, pointing out how the yearnings of the transhumanists—if not their technological methods—find deep affinities in Christian belief. In this volume, Ronald Cole-Turner has joined seasoned scholars and younger, emerging voices together to bring fresh insight into the technologies that are already reshaping the future of Christian life and hope.
Author : Andrew Pilsch
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452954887
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Transhumanism written by Andrew Pilsch and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transhumanism posits that humanity is on the verge of rapid evolutionary change as a result of emerging technologies and increased global consciousness. However, this insight is dismissed as a naive and controversial reframing of posthumanist thought, having also been vilified as “the most dangerous idea in the world” by Francis Fukuyama. In this book, Andrew Pilsch counters these critiques, arguing instead that transhumanism’s utopian rhetoric actively imagines radical new futures for the species and its habitat. Pilsch situates contemporary transhumanism within the longer history of a rhetorical mode he calls “evolutionary futurism” that unifies diverse texts, philosophies, and theories of science and technology that anticipate a radical explosion in humanity’s cognitive, physical, and cultural potentialities. By conceptualizing transhumanism as a rhetoric, as opposed to an obscure group of fringe figures, he explores the intersection of three major paradigms shaping contemporary Western intellectual life: cybernetics, evolutionary biology, and spiritualism. In analyzing this collision, his work traces the belief in a digital, evolutionary, and collective future through a broad range of texts written by theologians and mystics, biologists and computer scientists, political philosophers and economic thinkers, conceptual artists and Golden Age science fiction writers. Unearthing the long history of evolutionary futurism, Pilsch concludes, allows us to more clearly see the novel contributions that transhumanism offers for escaping our current geopolitical bind by inspiring radical utopian thought.
Author : C. Mercer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137342765
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Transhumanism and the Body written by C. Mercer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original articles, a sequel of sorts to the 2009 Religion and the Implications of Radical Life Extension (Palgrave Macmillan), is the first sustained reflection, by scholars with expertise in the faith traditions, on how the transhumanist agenda might impact the body.
