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Multisituationality and Social Sensibility. Insights From Neophenomenological Sociology

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Sometimes, we do not act in accordance with what we know. For example, we may purchase products that we know are the result of production chains with questionable ethics. This contribution investigates the paradox between social action and rational knowledge, starting from the ambivalence between emotion and reason.
Michele Granzotto
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The Relational Quiddity of Virtual/Digital Reality

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 55, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Does the digital/virtual have a reality? For a critical realist, there is no doubt it does, since what can cause something is real. But what kind of reality is it? The article argues that this reality is a relational quidditas. The diffusion of new AI‐based technologies increasingly blends analogue and virtual realities, making it essential to
Pierpaolo Donati
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Anatomy as embodied resistance in an age of digital abstraction

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 9, Page 1013-1020, September 2025.
Abstract Amid the accelerating integration of digital technologies in the health professional education, anatomy education with an emphasis on engagement with real human bodies can provide a crucial counterweight to digital abstraction. Rapid advances in artificial intelligence and algorithm‐driven medicine may lead to the intrinsic value of embodied ...
Claudia Krebs, Sabine Hildebrandt
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TRANSHUMANISM IN RUSSIA: SOCIAL ACTIVIVITIES

Высшее образование в России, 2016
Owing to the achievements of biotechnological revolution in the second half of the XX century which open the way to unlimited human enhancement, a new view on life, transhumanism, has emerged.
Olga V. Polyakova
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What the surrogate touches: The haptic threshold of transhuman embodiment

Confero: Essays on Education, Philosophy and Politics, 2016
A core promise of transhumanism concerns the technological extension and augmentation of the human body, where media interfaces are used to push the borders of the human outward beyond their present limits.
David P. Parisi
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Phase of the formation of the posthumanism. To the statement of a problem

Дискурс Пи, 2020
In conditions of economic instability, the spread of challenges and threats of both man-made, epidemiological, and information-communication nature, humanism in general and the concept of "human" in particular are forced to adapt to the new realities of ...
Gribovod E.G.
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Considerations of a physician on a lecture on the Trans-human

Italian Journal of Medicine, 2019
The letter offers a clear presentation on the evolution of the so-called Trans-human, through brief quotes from intellectuals who have highlighted some of its fundamental characteristics and main ideas.
Florindo Pirone
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The History of ‘Transhumanism’ [PDF]

Notes and Queries, 2015
Harrison, Peter., Wolyniak, Joseph.
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Is Pedagogy Transhuman? Reflections on the Relationship Between Pedagogy and Transhumanism

Studia Paedagogica Ignatiana, 2017
The following contribution aims at discussing the role of pedagogy against the background of a time in which limits are overcome through the use of new technologies. It is argued that pedagogy is in some way itself always related to both the recognition,
Thomas Damberger, Estella Hebert
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The Ironic Transhumanity of William Gibson’s The Peripheral

Fafnir, 2016
The article discusses transhuman futures in William Gibson’s 2014 novel The Peripheral. Through differing depictions of transhuman characters in two timelines coming into contact, Gibson presents various characters as metaphorical cyborgs.
Esko Suoranta
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