Mortal Objects: Identity and Persistence through Life and Death - Tapa dura

Luper, Steven

 
9781108833721: Mortal Objects: Identity and Persistence through Life and Death
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ISBN 10: 1108833721 ISBN 13: 9781108833721
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Sinopsis

How might we change ourselves without ending our existence? What could we become, if we had access to an advanced form of bioengineering that allowed us dramatically to alter our genome? Could we remain in existence after ceasing to be alive? What is it to be human? Might we still exist after changing ourselves into something that is not human? What is the significance of human extinction? Steven Luper addresses these questions and more in this thought-provoking study. He defends an animalist account, which says that we are organisms, but claims that we are also material objects. His book goes to the heart of the most complex questions about what we are and what we might become. Using case studies from the life sciences as well as thought experiments, Luper develops a new way of thinking about the nature of life and death, and whether and how human extinction matters.

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Steven Luper is Professor of Philosophy at Trinity University, Texas. He is the author of Invulnerability: On Securing Happiness (1996) and The Philosophy of Death (Cambridge, 2009), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death (Cambridge, 2014).

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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1108833721
ISBN 13 
9781108833721
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Número de páginas
212
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