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UNINA9910438333503321 |
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Autore |
Coeckelbergh Mark |
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Titolo |
Human being @ risk : enhancement, technology, and the evaluation of vulnerability transformations / / by Mark Coeckelbergh |
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Dordrecht, : Springer, 2013 |
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1-299-40837-0 |
94-007-6025-6 |
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[1st ed. 2013.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Philosophy of engineering and technology, , 1879-7202 ; ; 12 |
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Phenomenology |
Technology - Philosophy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Part I Descriptive Anthropology of Vulnerability -- Chapter 1. The Transhumanist Challenge -- Chapter 2. An Anthropology of Vulnerability -- Chapter 3. Cultures and Transformations of Vulnerability -- Part II Normative Anthropology of Vulnerability -- Chapter 4. Ethics of Vulnerability (1): Implications for ethics of technology -- Chapter 5. Ethics of Vulnerability (2): Imagining the Posthuman future -- Chapter 6. Ethics of Vulnerability (3): Vulnerability in the Information Age -- Chapter 7. Politics of Vulnerability: Freedom, Justice, and the Public/Private distinction -- Chapter 8. Normative Aesthetics of Vulnerability: The Art of Coping with Vulnerability -- Conclusion. |
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Whereas standard approaches to risk and vulnerability presuppose a strict separation between humans and their world, this book develops an existential-phenomenological approach according to which we are always already beings-at-risk. Moreover, it is argued that in our struggle against vulnerability, we create new vulnerabilities and thereby transform ourselves as much as we transform the world. Responding to the discussion about human enhancement and information technologies, the book then shows that this dynamic-relational approach has important implications for the evaluation of new |
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technologies and their risks. It calls for a normative anthropology of vulnerability that does not ask which objective risks are acceptable, how we can become invulnerable, or which technologies threaten human nature, but which vulnerability transformations we want. To the extent that we can steer the growth of new technologies at all, this tragic and sometimes comic project should therefore be guided by what we want to become. |
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UNINA9910349502303321 |
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Autore |
Auletta Gennaro |
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The Quantum Mechanics Conundrum : Interpretation and Foundations / / by Gennaro Auletta |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
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[1st ed. 2019.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (879 pages) |
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Quantum theory |
Physics |
Philosophy and science |
Quantum computers |
Spintronics |
Quantum Physics |
History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics |
Philosophy of Science |
Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics |
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Introduction -- Summary of the Basic Elements of the Theory -- The Main Problems -- The Main Interpretations -- Quantum Computation -- Ontological Ascription and Operations -- Information, Signals, Networks -- Quantum Mechanics, Fields, and Geometry -- Category Theory and Quantum Mechanics. |
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This comprehensive volume gives a balanced and systematic treatment of both the interpretation and the mathematical-conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics. It is written in a pedagogical style and addresses many thorny problems of fundamental physics. The first aspect concerns Interpretation. The author raises the central problems: formalism, measurement, non-locality, and causality. The main positions on these subjects are presented and critically analysed. The aim is to show that the main schools can converge on a core interpretation. The second aspect concerns Foundations. Here it is shown that the whole theory can be grounded on information theory. The distinction between information and signal leads us to integrating quantum mechanics and relativity. Category theory is presented and its significance for quantum information shown; the logic and epistemological bases of the theory are assessed. Of relevance to all physicists and philosophers with an interest in quantum theory and its foundations, this book is destined to become a classic work. |
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