The Proactionary Imperative A Foundation for Transhumanism
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S. Fuller, V. Lipinska, Veronika Lipi?ska
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The Proactionary Imperative A Foundation for Transhumanism
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Palgrave Macmillan
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9781137302922
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1
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CHF 81.70
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Allgemeines, Lexika
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English
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153
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The Proactionary Imperative debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species, our capacity to 'play God', the idea that we might treat our genes as a capital investment, eugenics and what it might mean to be 'human' in the context of risky scientific and technological interventions.
Author Steve Fuller: Steve Fuller is Augustus Comte Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK.He is author of eighteen books including Humanity 2.0: What It Means to be Human Past, Present and Future, Dissent over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism, Kuhn vs Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science, The Intellectualand Science vs Religion? Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution. His work has been translated into twenty languages.