Preparing for Life in Humanity 2.0

by Fuller, Steve

• ISBN13: 9781137277060
• ISBN10: 1137277068
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-10-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot

Summary

Preparing for Life in Humanity 2.0is a follow-up to Fuller's widely discussedHumanity 2.0. It provides a more detailed analysis of several quite divergent futures for 'being human' in the 21st century. The book begins by discussing the philosophical foundations of Humanity 2.0, drawing attention to how recent changes in the conduct of science and its social relations reflect implicit changes in human self-understanding. Here three possible futures of 'being human' are sketched and ideologically interrelated: the ecological, the biomedical and the cybernetic. Then the book moves to Humanity 2.0's emerging political economy, which involves the redefinition of classical political and economic concepts, such as justice and productivity. Next the book turns to Humanity 2.0's 'anthropology', which means the living conditions and aspirations available to this new being. Then Humanity 2.0's ethical horizons are considered, focusing on the normative sensibility of the 'moral entrepreneur', a natural risk-taker whose blurring of traditional intuitions of 'good' and 'evil' may acquire greater significance and legitimacy in the future. Finally the book concludes with a revised general education curriculum for Humanity 2.0 that gives centre stage to changing attitudes to the brain.

Author Biography

STEVE FULLER is Auguste Comte Chair of Social Epistemology, University of Warwick, UK. Fuller founded the Social Epistemology journal and his recent publications include The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies; The New Sociological Imagination; Science vs Religion: Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution; New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies; Dissent over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism; The Sociology of Academic and Intellectual Life; The History of Epistemology; and Humanity 2.0: What it Means to Be Human, Past Present and Future

Table of Contents

Introduction
Philosophy for Humanity 2.0
Political Economy for Humanity 2.0
Anthropology for Humanity 2.0
Ethics for Humanity 2.0
Epilogue: General Education for Humanity 2.0 – A Focus on the Brain