Marius Markuckas Abstract In this article, the transhumanist project is analyzed through the lens of one of the phenomena characterizing human existence, i.e. sex. The aim of the article is to reconstruct the ontological structure of transhumanism employing the reflection on the phenomenon of sex and, based on this reconstruction, to prepare the conceptual … [Read more…]
Kevin Rändi Abstract Implantable computing technologies are the blueprint for the ongoing process of cyborgization. Already with the present devices, design decisions and computational issues blend together with a living organism, so that our health, for example, depends on well-adjusted information security, which requires constant work and decisions by many actors of different expertise. … [Read more…]
Franc Mali Abstract The article deals with certain challenges connected with the progress of human enhancement technologies, where genome editing technologies form part of them. Today, the idea of human enhancement is the subject of considerable debate among various streams of transhumanist thinkers. The author rejects pessimistic and dystopian views on human enhancement technologies … [Read more…]
Žarko Paić Abstract The author deals with the consideration of what he calls the post-metaphysical complex of the technosphere, for which the ontogenetic framework of classical metaphysics from Aristotle to Hegel is no longer valid. Instead, the question of the essence of man posits his transcendence in the emergence of Homo kybernetes, with which … [Read more…]
Jason M. Pittman Abstract Humanity is transforming from a pure biological organism to a biodigitally converged being. The transformation has been hastened by rapid increases in power and commercialization of advanced technologies such as brain-computer interfaces and artificial intelligence. All indicators point towards a trend of continual acceleration away from baseline biology as the … [Read more…]
Philip Larrey, Daniele Puleio Abstract This paper presents transhumanism as a post-biological philosophy that can provide a theoretical framework for scientific programmes oriented towards the search for intelligent life in the universe. The long-term thinking inherent in transhumanism synchronizes evolution and technology, heralding the genesis of post-biological entities. The first part of the paper … [Read more…]
Alexandru Dragomir Abstract The domain of modal epistemology tackles questions regarding the sources of our knowledge of modalities (i.e., possibility and necessity), and what justifies our beliefs about modalities. Virtue epistemology, on the other hand, aims at explaining epistemological concepts like knowledge and justification in terms of properties of the epistemic subject, i.e., cognitive … [Read more…]
Anastasia Zakariadze, Irakli Brachuli Abstract The ethos of the Enlightenment implies the recognition of the primacy of an autonomous Cogito. It also implies the recognition of the primacy of so-called “genius” – the power of proper imagination of unconditional free game. The study shows that St. Anthim the Iberian’s poetics, in his artistic creativity, … [Read more…]
Laëtitia Simonetta Abstract In La Recherche de la vérité, Malebranche succeeds Descartes in entitling the affections of pleasure and pain to a practical role. However, he also speaks of instinct as “knowledge” and “proof”. This vocabulary is all the more surprising as it keeps opposing knowledge, based on ideas, to feeling, which only consists … [Read more…]
Alice Simionato Abstract In this paper, I argue that Spinoza’s theory of emotions as developed in his Ethics provides a theory of becoming. In particular, I argue that adequate knowledge of the emotions attained through reason provides human beings with a twofold insight; on the one hand, adequate knowledge of affectus provides metaphysical insight … [Read more…]