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Reflections on Perspectives of Transhumanism, Buddhist Transhumanism, and Buddhist Modernism on the Self
A claim made by Buddhist or Buddhism-affine scholars such as Michael LaTorra and James Hughes is that transhumanism, neuroscience, and the teachings...
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Weak transhumanism: moderate enhancement as a non-radical path to radical enhancement
Transhumanism aims to bring about radical human enhancement. In ‘Truly Human Enhancement’ Agar (2014) provides a strong argument against producing...
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Transhumanism
This chapter provides an overview of the transhumanist movement, its origins, its main figures and its main positions. It then highlights the fact...
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Transhumanism, Immortality and the Question of Life’s Meaning
In our contemporary and futuristic times, immortality is slowly being extracted from the divine/spiritual arena by means of science and technology....
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Transhumanism, Singularity and the Meaning of Life: An Afrofuturist Perspective
Transhumanism, a movement promoting the possibility and desirability of using science and technology in overcoming fundamental human limitations,...
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On the (Non-)Rationality of Human Enhancement and Transhumanism
The human enhancement debate has over the last few decades been concerned with ethical issues in methods for improving the physical, cognitive, or...
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Afro-communitarianism and Transhumanism
This chapter examines the status of the transhumanist future that seeks to use the means of science and technology to radically enhance human moral...
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Afro-communitarianism and Transhumanism
This chapter examines the status of the transhumanist future that seeks to use the means of science and technology to radically enhance human moral...
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Dying to Live: Transhumanism, Cryonics, and Euthanasia
It might seem counterintuitive to think transhumanists, who are typically characterized by extreme techno-optimism and hope for radical...
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Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Superhumanism and Metahumanism from an Adaptive Standpoint
Do posthumanism, transhumanism, superhumanism and metahumanism analyse adequately and recommend useful proposals pertaining to safe, long and...
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Pragmatism and Transhumanism
In common parlance, the terms “pragmatismPragmatism” and “pragmatic” signal a preference for practical expediency over a commitment to such lofty...
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Transhumanism and Advanced Capitalism: Elitist Logics and Dangerous Implications
Transhumanists overplay the instrumental nature of technology and fail to thoroughly situate technological advancement within the social, economic,...
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Introduction: Humanism and Its Discontents—The Rise of Transhumanism and Posthumanism
Humanism was defined by two pronouncements in the Book of Genesis: Man was made to God’s image and God had entrusted Man with the dominion of all...
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Beyond Disintegration: Transhumanism and Enactivism
The enactive approach is becoming increasingly influential within the philosophy of cognition, to the extent that it is now one of the dominant...
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Transhumanism (See Enhancement; Transplantation; Genetic Engineering)
Transhumanism refers to a philosophical movement that believes the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations such as...
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Through New Eyes: Artificial Intelligence, Technological Unemployment, and Transhumanism in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun
Klara and the Sun , the latest novel by Nobel-prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, forces one to reckon with one's own anxieties about the future of emerging...
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Overcoming (Our) Nature: Transhumanism and the Redefinition of Human Being’s Essence
The aim of this chapter is to shed a critical light on transhumanismTranshumanism’s philosophy as regards its positions on nature, human nature,...
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On Prosthetic Existence: What Differentiates Deconstruction from Transhumanism and Posthumanism
Our rapidly changing technological environment is becoming increasingly intimate and ubiquitous. It becomes more and more intimate to our bodies,...