Transhumanism : the proper guide to a posthuman condition or a dangerous idea? / Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Hans-Jörg Kreowski, editors.
Hofkirchner, Wolfgang, 1953- editor.; Kreowski, H.-J. (Hans-Jörg), editor.
2021
B842.5
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Title
Transhumanism : the proper guide to a posthuman condition or a dangerous idea? / Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Hans-Jörg Kreowski, editors.
ISBN
9783030565466 (electronic bk.)
3030565467 (electronic bk.)
9783030565459
3030565459
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56546-6
Published
Cham : Springer, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 244 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-56546-6 doi
Call Number
B842.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
144
Summary
This book examines the contributions of the transhumanism approach to technology, in particular the contributed chapters are wary of the implications of this popular idea. The volume is organized into four parts concerning philosophical, military, technological and sociological aspects of transhumanism, but the reader is free to choose various reading patterns. Topics discussed include gene editing, the singularity, ethical machines, metaphors in AI, mind uploading, and the philosophy of art, and some perspectives taken or discussed examine transhumanism within the context of the philosophy of technology, transhumanism as a derailed anthropology, and critical sociological aspects that consider transhumanism in the context of topical concerns such as whiteness, maleness, and masculinity. The book will be of value to researchers engaged with artificial intelligence, and the ethical, societal, and philosophical impacts of science and technology.
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Hofkirchner, Wolfgang, 1953- editor.
Kreowski, H.-J. (Hans-Jörg), editor.
Series
Cognitive technologies, 1611-2482
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Part I: Philosophical Aspects
Aspects of Mind Uploading
Transhumanism as a Derailed Anthropology
Transhumanism and Philosophy of Technology
Senseless Transhumanism
Elements of a Posthuman Philosophy of Art
Part II: Military Aspects
Transcending Natural Limitations: The Military-Industrial Complex and the Transhumanist Temptation
When CRISPR Meets Fantasy: Transhumanism and the Military in the Age of Gene Editing
War in Times of "Beyond Man": Reflections on a "Grand" Contemporary Topic
Part III: Technological Aspects
The Singularity Hoax: Why Computers Will Never Be More Intelligent than Humans
Ethical Machine Safety Test
'Action' and Ascription: On Misleading Metaphors in the Debate About Artificial Intelligence and Transhumanism
Part IV: Sociological Aspects
Transhumanism and/as Whiteness
Promethean Shame Revisited: A Praxio-onto-epistemological Analysis of Cyber Futures
Where from and Where to
Trans- and Post-humanistic Phantasms: Antichrist, Headbirth and the Feminist Cyborg
Co-creation in Trans-human Realities: Setting the Stage for Transformative Learning.

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