Transhumanism

  • Typ: Seminar (S)
  • Semester: WS 17/18
  • Zeit: 03.11.2017
    14:00 - 19:30 täglich
    20.30 SR 0.019 20.30 Kollegiengebäude Mathematik, Englerstr. 2


    12.01.2018
    09:00 - 17:00 täglich
    20.30 SR -1.009 (UG) 20.30 Kollegiengebäude Mathematik, Englerstr. 2

    13.01.2018
    09:00 - 17:00 täglich
    50.41 Raum -108 (UG) 50.41 Allgemeines Verfügungsgebäude (AVG) mit Rundbau


  • Dozent: Dr. Sabine Metzger
  • LVNr.: 1130079
Bemerkungen

Ameldung erforderlich über www.zak.kit.edu

Voraussetzungen

Englische Sprachkenntnisse, Bereitschaft zur Übernahme eines Referates

Lehrinhalt

This course will provide an intruduction to the issues of transhumanism and their social and ethical implications.

Kurzbeschreibung

Committed to the improvement of the human condition, transhumanism is rooted in the humanism of Enlightenment with its focus on progress. At the same time, it exceeds classical humanist objectives of educational and cultural refinement by inquiring into the possibilities offered by technology to overcome human nature’s biological limitations. While inseparably linked to emergent technologies’ impact on human nature, transhumanist thinking is multi- and interdisciplinary; it involves not only the natural sciences, but also the human sciences by addressing the social and ethical concerns of technologically mediated human enhancement. In this course we will explore the social and ethical dimensions of transhumanist key issues, such as health- and lifespan enhancement, human-machine interfaces, prosthetic bodies, simulations, and alternative biologies, as well as their social and ethical implications. We will focus on seminal transhumanist theorists like Max More, Natasha Vita-More, Andy Miah, Ronald Bailey, and Ray Kurzweil, and on some “proto-transhumanists”: Pico della Mirandola, Francis Bacon, and the Marquis de Condorcet.
2–6 LP

Ziel

1. Acquire basic knowledge about the development of transhumanism.

2. Aquire knowledge about the range of transhumanism.

3. Develop an informed sensitivity towards the general impacts of technologically mediated transformations of human life on the individual and on society.

4. Achieve a critical awareness of the ethical and social dimensions of technologically mediated human enhancements

Prüfung

2-6 LP