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Full Description
This anthology shows how African philosophy can provide novel ways of understanding the relationship between transhumanism and moral enhancement, which concerns the augmentation of individuals' moral capacities through scientific and technological interventions. These interventions help individuals surpass their moral limitations, making them always act morally in posthuman fashion. This volume considers how African axiological values can refute or support radical moral enhancement from African philosophical perspectives. For example, one can defend radical moral enhancement by envisioning a posthuman era in Africa, or argue alternatively that radical moral enhancement truncates the process of acquiring normative personhood. This volume is of interest to researchers, professionals, and students interested in exploring the prospects and challenges of transhumanism and moral enhancement beyond Western perspectives and within the African context.
Contents
Chapter 1. On Transhumanism in Africa (Chimakonam).- Chapter 2. Moral Enhancement, Ubuntu, and the Space of Questioning (Janz).- Chapter 3. More than Human: Ubuntu and Genetic Engineering (Oelofsen).- Chapter 4. Morally Enhanced Cyborgs (Sorgner).- Chapter 5. A Moral Evaluation of Transhumanism Alignment with Botho's Metaphysics (Sesiro).- Chapter 6. Can Morally Enhanced Individuals Attain Personhood Within An African Philosophical Context? (Fayemi).- Chapter 7. Should Africa Be Hopeful in the Emergence of Technologized Personhood? (Negedu).- Chapter 8. Will Moral Enhancement Lead to Technologized Personhood? (Chimakonam).- Chapter 9. Is There a Masculine Bias to Transhumanism? Insights from a (Trans)Human Conversation (Yu and Harris).- Chapter 10. Transhumanism and African Futures: Charting African Modernist Pathways to Human Enhancement (Abdul).- Chapter 11. Technology, Transhumanism and the Politics of Development in Africa (Oyekan).
