Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (847 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1844658058 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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… Throughout, Roden’s writing is careful, accessible, and riddled with pop-culture references. "Unpacking a range of debates spanning ethics, existentialism, phenomenology, and the philosophy of mind, Roden offers a compelling take on the fate of humanism in a posthuman world. Dick." - Rick Searle, IEET"A unique and fascinating work. He also manages to point towards connections of the postmodern thrust of late 21st century philosophy which challenged the role of the self/subject and recent developments in neuroscience, including connections between philosophical phenomenology and the neuroscience of human perception that do something very similar to our conception of the self. Su
Yes. This is exactly what we need.
His published work has addressed the relationship between deconstruction and analytic philosophy, philosophical naturalism, the metaphysics of sound, and posthumanism. . David Roden is Lecturer in Philosophy at The Open University, UK
We do not know what will happen and, not being posthuman, cannot anticipate how posthumans will assess the world. If a posthuman future will not necessarily be informed by our kind of subjectivity or morality the limits of our current knowledge must inform any ethical or political assessment of that future. Many argue that these enhanced people might live better lives; others fear that tinkering with our nature will undermine our sense of our own humanity. Posthuman Life develops a critical metaphysics of posthuman succession and argues that only a truly speculative posthumanism c