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Posthuman Personhood takes up the ethical challenge posed by Francis Fukuyama’s work, Our Posthuman Future. Daryl J. Wennemann argues that the traditional concept of personhood may be fruitfully applied to the ethical challenge we face in a posthuman age. He draws upon Wilfrid Sellars’ treatment of the concept of a person within “the manifest image of man in the world.” Sellars proposed that we develop a stereoscopic view of reality that includes both a scientific understanding of the world and a meaningful place for persons living and acting in the world. Following Mary Anne Warren, Wennemann develops a distinction between two meanings of the term “human,” a biological meaning and a moral meaning, and maintains that all (biologically) human beings are persons. But, it is not necessarily the case that all persons must be (biologically) human. After drawing on a contemporary version of Kant’s distinction between a theoretical possibility and a real possibility, the book posits that biologically non-human persons like robots, computers, or aliens are a theoretical possibility but that we do not know if they are a real possibility. Finally, Wennemann describes an ethic of self-limitation for the posthuman age.

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Daryl J. Wennemann received his BA and MA in philosophy from St. Louis University and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Marquette University. He is currently an associate professor of philosophy at Fontbonne University. He is the co-author of Applied Professional Ethics: A Developmental Approach for Use with Case Studies with Greg Beabout and has published a number of scholarly articles.
Release date NZ
May 2nd, 2013
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
170
Dimensions
162x236x19
ISBN-13
9780761861034
Product ID
21308475

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