Religion and Transhumanism: The Unknown Future of Human Enhancement - Hardcover

Mercer, Calvin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1440833257 ISBN 13: 9781440833250

Verlag: Praeger, 2014

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Reseña del editor:

Should technology be used to improve human faculties such as cognition and longevity? This thought-provoking dialogue between "transhumanism" and religion examines enhancement technologies that could radically alter the human species. * Introduces some of the hardest and most pressing issues that will determine the future of the human race * Examines current scholarly questions and thoughts about transhumanism * Asks new questions relative to the intersection of human enhancement and religion * Explores what it means to be human in a technologically changing world

Biografía del autor:

Calvin Mercer, PhD, is professor of religion and director of the Religious Studies Program at East Carolina University. Tracy J. Trothen, PhD, is associate professor of religion at the Queen's University School of Religion, in Kingston, Ontario.

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• Verlag: Praeger
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1440833257
• ISBN 13: 9781440833250
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 472