Overview
- Argues for an evolutionary continuity between human persons and cyborg persons
- Aims to reclaim the term ‘cyborg,’ arguing that the metaphorical usage fails to pick up on technologically driven changes in human embodiment
- Proposes we create space for the possibility of cyborgean ethics
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors (PSFHS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
"Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz’s book aims to steer a middle path between posthumanism and various forms of positivism or naturalism. To do this, Alcaraz provides a non-transcendental account of cyborg personhood based on a semiotic conception of the person as a creature woven from cultural practices. This path is richly exemplified with case studies drawn from contemporary art practice and cybernetic research, and valuably contributes to ongoing debates about the implications of technological change for the future of humanity." (David Roden,The Open University, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Are Cyborgs Persons?
Book Subtitle: An Account of Futurist Ethics
Authors: Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60315-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60314-4Published: 23 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60317-5Published: 24 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60315-1Published: 22 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2945-6592
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6606
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 197
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Philosophy, Science and Technology Studies, Ethics, Aesthetics