Overview
- cs, and digital humanism
- Transhumanism is an international philosophical and cultural movement that aims to enhance the intellectual and physical capabilities of human beings beyond their current limits. Critics such as Francis Fukuyama consider it one of the "world's most dangerous ideas"
- Project supported by the Special Interest Group "Emergent Systems, Information and Society" of the IS4SI (Intl. Society for the Study of Information), which is also a working group of the Leibniz Society of Sciences to Berlin e.V. and The Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society (GSIS) in Vienna as well as by the Forum of Computer Scientists and IT-Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF e.V.)
- Interesting for researchers in domains such as artificial intelligence, robotics, cognitive science, information technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, science and technology studies, technology assessment, information and society, information ethi
Part of the book series: Cognitive Technologies (COGTECH)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sociological Aspects
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transhumanism: The Proper Guide to a Posthuman Condition or a Dangerous Idea?
Editors: Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Hans-Jörg Kreowski
Series Title: Cognitive Technologies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56546-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56545-9Published: 13 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56548-0Published: 14 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56546-6Published: 12 December 2020
Series ISSN: 1611-2482
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6635
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 244
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Technology