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Human Being @ Risk de Mark Coeckelbergh

Human Being @ Risk

Autor Mark Coeckelbergh
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 mar 2013
Whereas standard approaches to risk and vulnerability presuppose a strict separation between humans and their world, this book develops an existential-phenomenological approach according to which we are always already beings-at-risk. Moreover, it is argued that in our struggle against vulnerability, we create new vulnerabilities and thereby transform ourselves as much as we transform the world.
Responding to the discussion about human enhancement and information technologies, the book then shows that this dynamic-relational approach has important implications for the evaluation of new technologies and their risks. It calls for a normative anthropology of vulnerability that does not ask which objective risks are acceptable, how we can become invulnerable, or which technologies threaten human nature, but which vulnerability transformations we want. To the extent that we can steer the growth of new technologies at all, this tragic and sometimes comic project should therefore beguided by what we want to become.​
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789400760240
ISBN-10: 9400760248
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: XIV, 218 p.
Dimensiuni: 160 x 241 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:2013
Editura: Springer
Locul publicării:Dordrecht, Netherlands

Public țintă

Research

Cuprins

Part I Descriptive Anthropology of Vulnerability.-  Chapter 1. The Transhumanist Challenge.- Chapter 2. An Anthropology of Vulnerability.- Chapter 3. Cultures and Transformations of Vulnerability.- Part II Normative Anthropology of Vulnerability.- Chapter 4. Ethics of Vulnerability (1): Implications for ethics of technology.- Chapter 5. Ethics of Vulnerability (2): Imagining the Posthuman future.- Chapter 6. Ethics of Vulnerability (3): Vulnerability in the Information Age.- Chapter 7. Politics of Vulnerability: Freedom, Justice, and the Public/Private distinction.- Chapter 8. Normative Aesthetics of Vulnerability: The Art of Coping with Vulnerability.- Conclusion.
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Recenzii

“Coeckelbergh is a Belgian philosopher of technology and professor at the University of Vienna. In this interesting book, he proposes a new approach to the transhumanism debate by focusing on human vulnerability. … the book offers a new approach to the transhumanist debate, suggesting and provoking many inputs and questions … . it reminds us of the necessity and urgency of dealing with the transhumanist question, which is not only a future question, but a current one.” (Luis Torró Ferrero, ESSSAT News & Reviews, Vol. 26 (4), December, 2016)
“It is thoroughly unique and original in showing the importance and extreme usefulness of philosophical anthropology and the phenomenological tradition for thinking through the consequences of the epochal technological mutations of our time … . author has succeeded in crafting a muchmore profound and sophisticated ethical and political perspective on human enhancement than almost any other book … . It deserves to be widely read and has the potential of becoming a key reference for the debate on enhancement.” (Pieter Lemmens, Human Studies, Vol. 37, 2014)
“The book offers a complex and ambitious programme to establish a normative anthropology of vulnerability … . Coeckelbergh has written an important and original book, with a carefully constructed argument. He provides a rich discussion of fundamental and topical issues from a wide range of perspectives. … The book is valuable for scholars in many fields, not only philosophy of technology, anthropology or ethics, but also other disciplines dealing with technology and regulation of technology.” (Bert-Jaap Koops, Law, Innovation and Technology, Vol. 5 (2), 2013)

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Whereas standard approaches to risk and vulnerability presuppose a strict separation between humans and their world, this book develops an existential-phenomenological approach according to which we are always already beings-at-risk. Moreover, it is argued that in our struggle against vulnerability, we create new vulnerabilities and thereby transform ourselves as much as we transform the world.
Responding to the discussion about human enhancement and information technologies, the book then shows that this dynamic-relational approach has important implications for the evaluation of new technologies and their risks. It calls for a normative anthropology of vulnerability that does not ask which objective risks are acceptable, how we can become invulnerable, or which technologies threaten human nature, but which vulnerability transformations we want. To the extent that we can steer the growth of new technologies at all, this tragic and sometimes comic project should therefore beguided by what we want to become.​

Caracteristici

First book to argue that posthuman existence also implies new vulnerabilities Integrates Risk Theory with Philosophical Anthropology Offers an original ethical and political analysis of vulnerability in the information age? Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Notă biografică

Mark Coeckelbergh is full Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna, ERA Chair at Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and former President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT). He is also member of various entities that support policy development concerning AI Ethics. He is the author of numerous books including AI Ethics and Why AI Undermines Democracy.

Mark Thomas Young is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo. His research covers two fields; the Philosophy of Technology, where he focuses on practices of maintenance and the use of automating technologies and the History and Philosophy of Science, where he explores instruments, craft practices and tacit knowledge in the early modern period.

Wessel Reijers is a postdoctoral researcher at Paderborn University and holds visiting positions at the Technion and the European University Institute. His research focuses on the philosophy and ethics of technology, notably on the development of a critical hermeneutical approach to technology and the investigation of the role of emerging technologies in the shaping of citizenship.