Advancing the Human Self: Do Technologies Make Us "Posthuman"? (Dia-Logos, Band 27) - Hardcover

Nowak

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3631806787 ISBN 13: 9783631806784

Verlag: Peter Lang, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Do technologies advance our self-identities, as they do our bodies, cognitive skills, and the next developmental stage called postpersonal? Did we already manage to be fully human, before becoming posthuman? Are we doomed to disintegration and episodic selfhood? This book examines the impact of radical technopoiesis on our selves from a multidisciplinary perspective, including the health humanities, phenomenology, the life sciences and humanoid AI (artificial intelligence) ethics. Surprisingly, our body representations show more plasticity than scholarly concepts and sociocultural narratives. Our embodied selves can withstand transplants, bionic prostheses and radical somatechnics, but to remain autonomous and authentic, our agential potentials must be strengthened – and this is not through ‘psychosurgery’ and the brain–computer interface.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ewa Nowak is a full professor and chair of ethics at AMU Poznañ (Poland); a former visiting scholar of Cornell Univ. and Universities of Konstanz, Bern, Berlin and Siegen; the co-author of Ethos in Public Life (2008) and Experimental Ethics (2013); and the co-editor of Kohlberg Revisited (2015) and Educating Competencies for Democracy (2013).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3631806787
• ISBN 13: 9783631806784
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 242
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: GPSR Kontakt; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Deutschland