HOW would you like to be a posthuman? You know, a person who has gone beyond the “maximum attainable capacities by any current human being without recourse to new technological means”, as philosopher Nick Bostrum of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford so carefully ...
The central chapters of The Posthuman respond to four key questions: 'What is the posthuman?', 'Where does the posthuman leave humanity?', 'How does the posthuman engender its own forms of inhumanity?', and 'How does it affect the practi... Morgan,M. - 《Sociology》 被引量: 1发表:...
Psychologization as well as the fact that many theoretical reflections in academia are based on Western theories, and are hence Western-centric, are discussed. From a critical perspective, the exclusionary dimensions of theories of human nature are presented, drawing on posthuman ideas....
What does it mean to be a 'subject'? Malabou's plasticity and going beyond the question of the inhuman, posthuman, and nonhuman 来自 学术范 喜欢 0 阅读量: 7 作者: Sevket Benhur Oral 摘要: What it means to be human is inherently incomplete or in a state of permanent mutability. This ...
Bacchi’s ‘What is the problem represented to be?’ approach to social policy issues was used to answer the question: if we know what works to support parents with learning disabilities, why aren’t we doing it? This commentary contends that the pervasive representation of parents with ...
To this end, we must naturally define human freedom. This is an age-old quest, but we must do it and keep doing it. Drawing on established early modern-to-modern philosophy, to be a free human is essentially being able to critique the world to make informed choices (c.f. Kant). Acc...
What do we see when we glance at a natural scene and how does it change as the glance becomes longer? We asked naive subjects to report in a free-form form... L Fei-Fei,A Iyer,C Koch,... - 《J Vis》 被引量: 560发表: 1994年 Material perception: What can you see in a brief...
culture that denounces the idea that human beings can—even should—actively reshape the world in their own interests.” These quotations each tackle the same question: what does it mean for people (some of whom are suffering) when philosophers concern themselves with the travails of...
overall decrease of flourishing or well-being for society.) This does not mean that such technological utopias or utopias in general should be theonlyobject to study for scholars interested in justice and politics. It is not contradictory to claim equally that to make more practical socio-...
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A PHILOSOPHER? Clifford Sosis interviews David Pearce CS:So, where did you grow up? What was your family like? DP: I grew up in the village of Burpham, near Guildford in Surrey. My parents, all four grandparents, and three of my eight great-grandparents were ...