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Author Łukaszewicz Alcaraz, Aleksandra, author

Title Are cyborgs persons? : an account of futurist ethics / Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

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Series Palgrave studies in the future of humanity and its successors
Palgrave studies in the future of humanity and its successors.
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
Summary 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 ukaszewicz 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 07, 2021)
Subject Cyborgs -- Moral and ethical aspects
Philosophical anthropology.
Transhumanism.
philosophical anthropology.
Philosophical anthropology
Transhumanism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3030603156
9783030603151