The Techno Human Condition

Author : Braden R. Allenby,Daniel Sarewitz
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262294409

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The Techno-Human Condition by Braden R. Allenby,Daniel Sarewitz Pdf

A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change. In The Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz explore what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change. They argue that if we are to have any prospect of managing that complexity, we will need to escape the shackles of current assumptions about rationality, progress, and certainty, even as we maintain a commitment to fundamental human values. Humans have been co-evolving with their technologies since the dawn of prehistory. What is different now is that we have moved beyond external technological interventions to transform ourselves from the inside out—even as we also remake the Earth system itself. Coping with this new reality, say Allenby and Sarewitz, means liberating ourselves from such categories as “human,” “technological,” and “natural” to embrace a new techno-human relationship. Contributors Boris Barbour, Mario Biagioli, Paul S. Brookes, Finn Brunton, Alex Csiszar, Alessandro Delfanti, Emmanuel Didier, Sarah de Rijcke, Daniele Fanelli, Yves Gingras, James R. Griesemer, Catherine Guaspare, Marie-Andrée Jacob, Barbara M. Kehm, Cyril Labbé, Jennifer Lin, Alexandra Lippman, Burkhard Morganstern, Ivan Oransky, Michael Power, Sergio Sismondo, Brandon Stell, Tereza Stöckelová, Elizabeth Wager, Paul Wouters

Author : Paolo Benanti
Publisher : Edizioni Dehoniane Bologna
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07T10:18:00+01:00
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788810964880

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Homo Faber by Paolo Benanti Pdf

In Homo Faber Paolo Benanti seeks to provide a philosophical and theological understanding of the technological phenomenon by casting light contemporaneously on the ethical dimensions connected to it. In constructing a holistic vision of technique-technology, he asks himself how to look at the technological artifacts, how it was possible that the West has undergone an incomparable technological development in respect to any other human culture and what this reveals and means for technology and what is the context in which technology is implemented and understood today. As a result of his journey Benanti shows how Technology is not a simple human activity, but human nature is a techno-human condition.

Author : Bernard Gendron
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1976-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0312789254

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Technology and the Human Condition by Bernard Gendron Pdf

Author : Nathan Van Camp
Publisher : P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biopolitics
ISBN : 2875742817

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Redesigning Life by Nathan Van Camp Pdf

This book brings together a philosophical analysis of life, politics, and technology with a biopolitical critique of the way genetic enhancement technologies have been dealt with in liberal moral and political philosophy. Inspired by the work of Heidegger, Arendt, and Stiegler, the author outlines a responsible biopolitics of genetic technologies.

Author : Christian Baron,Peter Nicolai Halvorsen,Christine Cornea
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319565774

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Science Fiction, Ethics and the Human Condition by Christian Baron,Peter Nicolai Halvorsen,Christine Cornea Pdf

This book explores what science fiction can tell us about the human condition in a technological world, with the ethical dilemmas and consequences that this entails. This book is the result of the joint efforts of scholars and scientists from various disciplines. This interdisciplinary approach sets an example for those who, like us, have been busy assessing the ways in which fictional attempts to fathom the possibilities of science and technology speak to central concerns about what it means to be human in a contemporary world of technology and which ethical dilemmas it brings along. One of the aims of this book is to demonstrate what can be achieved in approaching science fiction as a kind of imaginary laboratory for experimentation, where visions of human (or even post-human) life under various scientific, technological or natural conditions that differ from our own situation can be thought through and commented upon. Although a scholarly work, this book is also designed to be accessible to a general audience that has an interest in science fiction, as well as to a broader academic audience interested in ethical questions.

Author : Dominique Janicaud
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415327962

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On the Human Condition by Dominique Janicaud Pdf

On the Human Condition is an invigorating and fascinating exploration of where the idea of the human stands today.

Author : Gerald P. McKenny
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438412528

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To Relieve the Human Condition by Gerald P. McKenny Pdf

CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books This book argues that standard forms of bioethics support the technological utopian quest of medicine: to eliminate suffering and bring the body under the rule of our choices and desires. This quest raises urgent ethical questions rarely addressed in the dominant approaches to bioethics. McKenny puts forth an alternative agenda, arguing that the task of bioethics is to explore the moral significance of the body as it is expressed in the discourse and practice of moral and religious traditions.

Author : Harold W. Baillie,Timothy Casey
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0262524287

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Is Human Nature Obsolete? by Harold W. Baillie,Timothy Casey Pdf

An interdisciplinary exploration of whether modern genetics and bioengineering are leading us to a posthuman future.

Author : Dominique Janicaud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134336180

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On the Human Condition by Dominique Janicaud Pdf

On the Human Condition is an invigorating and fascinating exploration of where the idea of the human stands today.

Author : Luppicini, Rocci
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466622128

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Handbook of Research on Technoself: Identity in a Technological Society by Luppicini, Rocci Pdf

"This book provides insights to better enhance the understanding of technology's widespread intertwinement with human identity within an advancing technological society"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Maryanne L. Leone,Shanna Lino
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487548339

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Beyond Human by Maryanne L. Leone,Shanna Lino Pdf

Chronicling sixteenth-century Spain to the present day, Beyond Human aims to decentre the human and acknowledge the material historicity of more-than-human nature. The book explores key questions relating to ecological equity, justice, and responsibility within and beyond Spain in the Anthropocene. Examining relations between Iberian cultural practices, historical developments, and ecological processes, Maryanne L. Leone, Shanna Lino, and the contributors to this volume reveal the structures that uphold and dismantle the non-human–human dichotomy and nature-culture divide. The book critiques works from the Golden Age to the twenty-first century in a wide range of genres, including comedia, royal treatises, agricultural reports, paintings, satirical essays, horror fiction and film, young adult and speculative literature, poetry, graphic novels, and television series. The authors contend that Spanish cultural studies must expose the material historicity that entangles today’s ecological crises and ecosocial injustices with previous, future, and contemporary entities. The book argues that this will require the simultaneous decentring of the human and of the Anthropocene as an ecocritical framework. By standardizing ecosocial analysis and widening avenues for ecopedagogical approaches, Beyond Human participates in the ecocentric transformation of Hispanic cultural studies.

Author : Anna Volkmar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666900231

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Art and Nuclear Power by Anna Volkmar Pdf

Humanity is struggling with the environmental destruction and social change caused by modern technologies like nuclear reactors. Politicians, scientists, and business leaders all too often revert to a tried and tested set of solutions that fails to grasp the wicked nature of the problem. Eschewing the problem-solving approach that dominates the nuclear energy debate, Anna Volkmar suggests that the only intelligent way to account for the inherent complexity of nuclear technology is not by trying to resolve it but to muddle through it. Through in-depth analyses of contemporary visual art, Volkmar demonstrates how art can suggest ways to muddle through these issues intelligently and ethically. This book is recommended for students and scholars of art history, anthropology, social science, ecocriticism, and philosophy.

Author : Justyna Zander,Pieter J. Mosterman
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781439883297

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Computation for Humanity by Justyna Zander,Pieter J. Mosterman Pdf

The exponential progress and accessibility of computing has vastly increased data flows and revolutionized the practice of science, engineering, and communication. Computing plays a critical role in advancing research across almost every scientific discipline. Computation for Humanity: Information Technology to Advance Society is a guide for the creation of services, products, and tools that facilitate, support, and enhance progress of humanity toward more sustainable life. This book: Provides a deep understanding of the practical applications of computation to solve human-machine problems Delivers insight into theoretical approaches in an accessible manner Provides a comprehensive overview of computational science and engineering applications in selected disciplines Crosses the boundaries between different domains and shows how they interrelate and complement one another Focuses on grand challenges and issues that matter for the future of humanity Shows different perspectives of computational thinking, understanding, and reasoning Provides a basis for scientific discoveries and enables adopting scientific theories and engineering practices from other disciplines Takes a step back to provide a human-related abstraction level that is not ultimately seen in pure technological elaborations/collections The editors provide a collection of numerous computation-related projects that form a foundation from which to cross-pollinate between different disciplines and further extensive collaboration. They present a clear and profound understanding of computing in today's world, and provide fundamental solutions to some of the most pertinent humanity-related problems.

Author : Judith Bessant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317286295

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The Great Transformation by Judith Bessant Pdf

While AI, robots, bio-technologies and digital media are transforming work, culture and social life, there is little understanding of or agreement about the scope and significance of this change. This new interpretation of the ‘great transformation’ uses history and evolutionary theory to highlight the momentous shift in human consciousness taking place. Only by learning from recent crises and rejecting technological determinism will governments and communities re-design social arrangements that ensure we all benefit from the new and emerging technologies. The book documents the transformations underway in financial markets, entertainment, medicine, affecting all aspects of work and social life. It draws on historical sociology and co-evolutionary theory arguing that the radical evolution of human consciousness and social life now underway is comparable to, if not greater than the agrarian revolution (10,000 BCE), the explosion of science, philosophy and religion in the Axial age (600 BCE), and the recent industrial revolution. Turning to recent major socio-economic crisis, and asking what can be learnt from them, the answer is we cannot afford this time around to repeat the failures of elites and theoretical systems like economics to attend appropriately to radical change. We need to think beyond the constraints of determinist and reductionist explanations and embrace the idea of deep freedom. This book will appeal to educators, social scientists, policy-makers, business leaders and students. It concludes with social design principles that can inform deliberative processes and new social arrangements that ensure everyone benefits from the affordances of the new and emerging technologies.

Author : Emanuele Ratti,Thomas A. Stapleford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190081737

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Science, Technology, and Virtues by Emanuele Ratti,Thomas A. Stapleford Pdf

Virtues have become a valuable and relevant resource for understanding modern science and technology. Scientific practice requires not only following prescribed rules but also cultivating judgment, building mental habits, and developing proper emotional responses. The rich philosophical traditions around virtue can provide key insights into scientific research, including understanding how daily practice shapes scientists themselves and how ethical dilemmas created by modern scientific research and technology should be navigated. Science, Technology, and Virtues gathers both new and eminent scholars to show how concepts of virtue can help us better understand, construct, and use the products of modern science and technology. Contributors draw from examples across philosophy, history, sociology, political science, and engineering to explore how virtue theory can help orient science and technology towards the pursuit of the good life. Split into four major sections, this volume covers virtues in science, technology, epistemology, and research ethics, with individual chapters discussing applications of virtues to scientific practice, the influence of virtue ethics on socially responsible research, and the concept of "failing well" within the scientific community. Rather than offer easy solutions, the essays in this volume instead illustrate how virtue concepts can provide a productive and illuminating perspective on two phenomena at the core of modern life. Fresh and thought-provoking, Science, Technology, and Virtues presents a pluralistic set of scholarship to show how virtue concepts can enrich our understanding of scientific research, guide the design and use of new technologies, and shape how we envision future scientists, engineers, consumers, and citizens.