Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future

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Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future
Autor: Fuller, Steve
Assuntos: Anthropology ; General and Popular Science ; Human beings ; Palgrave Social Sciences Collection ; Philosophy of Science ; Philosophy of Science, Technology and Environment ; Popular Science, general ; Science and Technology Studies ; Social Sciences ; Sociology of Religion ; Sociology of Religion and Belief ; Sociology of the Body ; Sociology, general
Descrição: 01 02 Social thinkers in all fields are faced with one unavoidable question: what does it mean to be 'human' in the 21st century? As definitions between what is 'animal' and what is 'human' break down, and asemerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and nano- and bio- technologies develop, accepted notions of humanity are rapidly evolving. Humanity 2.0 is an ambitious and groundbreaking book,offering a sweeping overview of key historical, philosophical and theological moments that have shaped our understandings of humanity. Tackling head on the twin taboos that have always hovered over the scientific study of humanity - race and religion - Steve Fuller argues thar far from disappearing, they are being reinvented. Fuller argues thatthese new developmentswill force us to decide which features of our current way of life - not least our bodies - are truly needed to remain human, and concludes with a consideration of these changes for ethical and social values more broadly. 04 02 Introduction: What is Humanity 2.0? Humanity Poised Between Biology and Ideology Defining the Human: The Always Ready - Or Never To Be - Object of the Social Sciences? A Policy Blueprint for Humanity 2.0: The Converging Technologies Agenda A Theology 2.0 for Humanity 2.0: Thinking Outside the Neo-Darwinian Box Conclusion: In Search of Humanity 2.0's Moral Horizon - Or, How to Suffer Smart in the 21st Century 08 02 'This is a brave and interesting book, which combines discourses that should mutually engage, but normally do not: biological and theological discussions of "humanity", discussions of transhumanism and evolution, and the policy discussions of convergent technology. Connecting them provides an opportunity to rethink the category of the human. Steve Fuller grasps this opportunity with gusto, in an accessible and wide-ranging overview.' - Professor Stephen Turner, University of South Florida, USA 'Humanity 2.0 offers a wide-ranging and timely account of the next stage of technoscience: the development of a new stage of humanity. Fuller bridges the concerns of science studies and science policy, exploring the historical and philosophical currents underlying the creation of a new biotechnological species, and highlights how the technoscientific industrial complex seeks to construct a new humanity as both product and consumer.' - Robert Frodeman, Director, Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity, University of North Texas, USA 13 02 STEVE FULLER is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK.He is author of eighteen books including Dissent over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism, Kuhn vs Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science, The Intellectual and Science vs Religion? Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution. His work has been translated into twenty languages. 19 02 Ambitious and groundbreaking book from controversial author Steve Fuller - author of Dissent over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism and Kuhn vs Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science Broad ranging analysis of what it means to be human, drawing on history, philosophy, theology, sociology and biology Examines how new technologies - such as artificial intelligence, nano- and bio-technologies - will redefine current definitions of 'humanity' Sets out the ethical challenges ahead as definitions of what it means to be human shift 02 02 Social thinkers in all fields are faced with one unavoidable question: What does it mean to be human in the 21st century?This ambitious and groundbreaking book provides the first synthesis of historical, philosophical and sociological insights needed to address this question in a thoughtful and creative manner. 31 02 An ambitious and groundbreaking examination, by leading scholar Steve Fuller, on bothhistorical definitionsof, and thefuture for, what it means to be human
Editor: Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Data de criação/publicação: 2011
Formato: 280
Idioma: Inglês

Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future

Fuller, Steve

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2011

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