Building better humans? : refocusing the debate on transhumanism /
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| Imprint: | Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, c2012. |
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| Description: | 520 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Beyond humanism, 2191-0391 ; v. 3 Beyond humanism ; v. 3. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9044320 |
Table of Contents:
- Science, technology, and democracy / Michael M. Crow
- Recombinant innovation creative hybrid zones in the adaptive university / Quentin Wheeler
- New perspectives on transhumanism / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Kenneth L. Mossman
- Science and the betterment of humanity: three British prophets of transhumanism / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
- Religion and the technowonderland of transhumanism / Linell E. Cady
- Jewish perspectives on transhumanism / Norbert Samuelson and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
- Ideals of human perfection: a comparison of Sufism and transhumanism / Farzad Mahootian
- Transhumanism and the Orthodox Christian tradition / Eugene Clay
- "The true dreams of mankind" Mircea Eliade's transhumanist fiction and the history of religions / Steven M. Wasserstrom
- What is race? Transhumanism and the evolutionary sciences / Brian Gratton
- In sickness and in health: the (fuzzy) boundary between "therapy" and "enhancement" / Kenneth L. Mossman
- The (in)feasibility of regulating enhancement / Gary E. Marchant and Alexandra López
- Transhumanist materialism: a critique from immunoneuropsychology / Steven A. Hoffman
- Being human versus being transhuman: the mind-body problem and lived experience / Craig T. Nagoshi and Julie L. Nagoshi
- Prenatal human enhancement and issues of responsibility / Michael J. White
- Neuroscience's threat to free will / Walter Glannon
- The (un)likelihood of a high-tech path to immoratality / Barry G. Ritchie
- Converging technologies, transhumanism, and future society / Daniel Barben
- Transhumanism and obligations to future generations / Joan L. McGregor
- Against species extinction transhumanism and contemporary technological culture / Jerry Coursen
- Technology and transhumanism: unpredictability, radical contingency, and accelerating change / Braden Allenby
- Is transhumanism scientifically plausible? Posthuman predictions and the human predicament / William J. Grassie.
