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Multisituationality and Social Sensibility. Insights From Neophenomenological Sociology

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Transhumanism, medical technology and slippery slopes

open access: yes, 2006
In this article, transhumanism is considered to be a quasi-medical ideology that seeks to promote a variety of therapeutic and human-enhancing aims.
Michael McNamee   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The Relational Quiddity of Virtual/Digital Reality

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

L’immortalité et ses impatients

open access: yesSocio-anthropologie, 2015
The end of mortality due to biological aging is announced, and with it, great upheavals of the human condition, traditionally characterized by its finitude. Transhumanism, either as a futuristic fantasy or a concrete endeavor, is identified as the banner
Gabriel Dorthe
doaj   +1 more source

Ethical and Christian view on Human Nature in Bioethics of Transhumanism

open access: yesIdei, 2020
The article is focused on human nature from view of ethical and Christian consequences resulting from bioethical research in the field of transhumanism. The aim is to examine impact of these researches on human nature within Christian dogmatics which may
Michal Gánovský
doaj   +1 more source

The Christian-Orthodox Faith and Christian Transhumanism

open access: yes, 2020
The Church has been confronted with various challenges in the recent period. One of these is the transhumanist movement that aims to create a new man by using the means of science and technology. In this context, the "œChristian Transhumanist Association"
Călin Emilian Cira   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Technological singularity and transhumanism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The technological innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution have facilitated the formulation of strategies to transcend human limitations; strategies that are widely supported by the transhumanist philosophy.
Gayozzo, Piero
core  

Deep ASI Literacy: Educating for Alignment with Artificial Super Intelligent Systems

open access: yesEducational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 4, Page 739-764, August 2025.
Abstract Artificial intelligence companies and researchers are currently working to create Artificial Superintelligence (ASI): AI systems that significantly exceed human problem‐solving speed, power, and precision across the full range of human solvable problems. Some have claimed that achieving ASI — for better or worse — would be the most significant
Nicolas J. Tanchuk
wiley   +1 more source

Effective altruism : doing transhumanism better

open access: yes, 2023
: Effective Altruism (EA) is a Trojan horse for transhumanism, through which EA movement leaders and funders aim to naturalize transhumanism as the logical extension of the existing global aid and development sector.
Gleiberman, Mollie
core  

Beyond Disintegration: Transhumanism and Enactivism

open access: yes, 2022
Beyond Disintegration: Transhumanism and ...
Marilyn Stendera (13086204)
core  

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