Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs (Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany) - In Defence of the Human Being, book launch
Tuesday March 29 2022
h. 16.00 CET
Special event: T. Fuchs, In Defence of the Human Being Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2021
About the book:
With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human being appears more and more as a product of data and algorithms. Thus, we conceive ourselves “in the image of our machines,” and conversely, we elevate our machines and our brains to new subjects. At the same time, demands for an enhancement of human nature culminate in transhumanist visions of taking human evolution to a new stage. Against this self-reification of the human being, this book defends a humanism of embodiment: our corporeality, aliveness, and embodied freedom are the foundations of a self-determined existence, which uses the new technologies only as means instead of submitting to them.
For students and academics, In Defense of the Human Being will be of interest to those studying digitalization and artificial intelligence, transhumanism and enhancement, virtual reality and embodiment, neuroscience, psychiatry, and cultural developments.With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human being appears more and more as a product of data and algorithms. Thus, we conceive ourselves “in the image of our machines,” and conversely, we elevate our machines and our brains to new subjects. At the same time, demands for an enhancement of human nature culminate in transhumanist visions of taking human evolution to a new stage. Against this self-reification of the human being, this book defends a humanism of embodiment: our corporeality, aliveness, and embodied freedom are the foundations of a self-determined existence, which uses the new technologies only as means instead of submitting to them.
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About the author:
Thomas Fuchs, MD, PhD, is Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry at Heidelberg University, and the Head of the section Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy.
His main areas of expertise include phenomenological philosophy and psychopathology as well as embodied and enactive cognitive science, with a particular emphasis on non-representational, interactive concepts of social cognition. He was Coordinator and Principal Investigator of several large national and international grants, among them the European Research Training Network Towards an Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity (TESIS, 2011-2016).
He has authored over 300 journal articles, book chapters and several books. He is also co-editor of Psychopathology and editorial board member of 4 scientific journals.
He is Chairman of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Phänomenologische Anthropologie, Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie” (DGAP).
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