Human Identity at the Intersection of Science, Technology and Religion.
Title:
Human Identity at the Intersection of Science, Technology and Religion.
Author:
Knight, Christopher C.
ISBN:
9781409410515
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (254 pages)
Series:
Ashgate Science and Religion Series
Contents:
Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I The Limits of Religion, the Limits of Science -- 1 Homo Religiosus: A Theological Proposal for a Scientific and Pluralistic Age -- 2 Religious Symbolism: Engaging the Limits of Human Identification -- 3 Fundamentalism in Science, Theology, and the Academy -- Part II The Emergence of the Distinctively Human -- 4 Reductionism and EmergenceA Critical Perspective -- 5 Nonreductive Human UniquenessImmaterial, Biological, or Psychosocial? -- 6 Human and Artificial IntelligenceA Theological Response -- 7 The Emergence of Morality -- Part III The Future of Human Identity -- 8 What Does It Mean to Be Human?Genetics and Human Identity -- 9 Distributed Identity:Human Beings as Walking, Thinking Ecologies in the Microbial World -- 10 Without a Horse:On Being Human in an Age of Biotechnology -- 11 From Human to PosthumanTheology and Technology -- 12 Can We Enhance the Imago Dei? -- Index.
Abstract:
Humans are unique in their ability to reflect on themselves. Recently a number of scholars have pointed out that human self-conceptions have a history. Ideas of human nature in the West have always been shaped by the interplay of philosophy, theology, science, and technology. The fast pace of developments in the latter two spheres (neuroscience, genetics, artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering) call for fresh reflections on what it means, now, to be human, and for theological and ethical judgments on how we might shape our own destiny in the future. The leading scholars in this book offer fresh contributions to the lively quest for an account of ourselves that does justice to current developments in theology, science, technology, and philosophy.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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