Are Cyborgs Persons?: An Account of Futurist Ethics

Author:   Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
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9783030603144


Pages:   197
Publication Date:   23 December 2020
Format:   Hardback
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This book presents argumentation for an evolutionary continuity between human persons and cyborg persons, based on the thought of Joseph Margolis. Relying on concepts of cultural realism and post-Darwinism, Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz redefines the notion of the person, rather than a human, and discusses the various issues of human body enhancement and online implants transforming modes of perception, cognition, and communication. She argues that new kinds of embodiment should not make acquiring the status of the person impossible, and different kinds of embodiments may be accepted socially and culturally. She proposes we consider ethical problems of agency and responsibility, critically approaching vitalist posthuman ethics, and rethinking the metaphysical standing of normativity, to create space for possible cyborgean ethics that may be executed in an Extended Republic of Humanity.

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Author:   Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030603144


ISBN 10:   3030603148
Pages:   197
Publication Date:   23 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Evolutionary Continuity between Human Person and Cyborg Person.- 3. Semiotic Approach to Person and Cyborg Person.- 4. Person in a Social and Technological World.- 5. New Forms of Embodiment.- 6. Cyborg and Material Communication.- 7. Vitalist, Posthuman, and Environmental Ethics.- 8. Possibility of Cyborgean Ethics and Politics.- 9. Conclusions for Future.

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Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz is Associate Professor in College of Visual Arts at the Academy of Art in Szczecin, Poland. Her research is in the fields of social philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophical aesthetics, and theory of culture and art.

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