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Mortal Objects

Autor Steven Luper
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 ian 2022
How might we change ourselves without ending our existence? What could we become, if we had access to an advanced form of bioengineering that allowed us dramatically to alter our genome? Could we remain in existence after ceasing to be alive? What is it to be human? Might we still exist after changing ourselves into something that is not human? What is the significance of human extinction? Steven Luper addresses these questions and more in this thought-provoking study. He defends an animalist account, which says that we are organisms, but claims that we are also material objects. His book goes to the heart of the most complex questions about what we are and what we might become. Using case studies from the life sciences as well as thought experiments, Luper develops a new way of thinking about the nature of life and death, and whether and how human extinction matters.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108833721
ISBN-10: 1108833721
Pagini: 212
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Introduction; 2. Material Objects; 3. Conformism; 4. Organisms; 5. Incregratism; 6. Selves; 7. The Cogito; 8. Living and Dying; 9. Welfare and Nonexistence; 10. What We Can Become; 11. (Re)making Ourselves; 12. The Meaning of Life and Death.

Recenzii

'Luper's writing is admirably engaging and unpretentious. He doesn't shrink from tackling the hardest problems about the metaphysics of ourselves and other material things. There's no other book like it.' Eric Olson, University of Sheffield

Descriere

Clarifies what persons, species, organisms, and material objects are, what it is to be alive, and the significance of extinction.