What is Essential to Being Human?: Can AI Robots Not Share It? by Margaret S. Ar

Description: What is Essential to Being Human? by Margaret S. Archer, Andrea M. Maccarini This book asks whether there exists an essence exclusive to human beings that serves to distinguish them from artificially intelligent robots, and considers the extent to which human essentialism might justify the denial to advanced AI robots of legal and citizenship rights. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book asks whether there exists an essence exclusive to human beings despite their continuous enhancement – a nature that can serve to distinguish humans from artificially intelligent robots, now and in the foreseeable future. Considering what might qualify as such an essence, this volume demonstrates that the abstract question of essentialism underpins a range of social issues that are too often considered in isolation and usually justify robophobia, rather than robophilia, in terms of morality, social relations and legal rights. Any defence of human exceptionalism requires clarity about what property(ies) ground it and an explanation of why these cannot be envisaged as being acquired (eventually) by AI robots. As such, an examination of the conceptual clarity of human essentialism and the role it plays in our thinking about dignity, citizenship, civil rights and moral worth is undertaken in this volume. What is Essential to Being Human? will appeal to scholars of social theory and philosophy with interests in human nature, ethics and artificial intelligence. Author Biography Margaret S. Archer founded the Centre for Social Ontology in 2013 (now based at the École de Management, Université de Grenoble) when she was Professor of Social Theory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Her books include Social Origins of Educational Systems; Culture and Agency: The Place of Culture in Social Theory; Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach; Being Human: The Problem of Agency; Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation; Making our Way Through the World; The Reflexive Imperative; Late Modernity: Trajectories Towards Morphogenic Society; Generative Mechanisms Transforming the Social Order; Morphogenesis and the Crisis of Normativity; and Morphogenesis and Human Flourishing.Andrea M. Maccarini is Professor of Sociology and Associate Chair in the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padua, Italy. He is also a member of the teaching board of the Ph.D. programme in Sociology and Social Research at the University of Bologna, Italy, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Boston University and the Humboldt-Universität Berlin, among others. He is a board member of IACR (International Association for Critical Realism) and collaborator of the Centre for Social Ontology, founded by Margaret S. Archer. His current research interests lie in the fields of social theory, education and socialiaation, and cultural change. He is the author of Deep Change and Emergent Structures in Global Society: Explorations in Social Morphogenesis and the co-editor of Engaging with the World: Agency, Institutions, Historical Formations. Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. On Robophilia and Robophobia 3. Sapience and Sentience: A Reply to Porpora 4. Relational Essentialism 5. Artificial Intelligence: Sounds like a friend, looks like a friend, is it a friend? 6. Growing Up in a World of Platforms: What Changes and What Doesnt? 7. On Macropolitics of Knowledge for Collective Learning in the Age of AI-Boosted Big Relational Tech 8. Can AIs do Politics? 9. Inhuman Enhancements? When Human Enhancements Alienate from Self, Others, Society and Nature 10. The Social Meanings of Perfection: Human Self-Understanding in a Post-Human Society Details ISBN0367368285 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2021 ISBN-10 0367368285 ISBN-13 9780367368289 Format Hardcover Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-07-15 NZ Release Date 2021-07-15 Pages 220 Publication Date 2021-07-15 UK Release Date 2021-07-15 Illustrations 3 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white Author Andrea M. Maccarini Subtitle Can AI Robots Not Share It? Edited by Andrea M. Maccarini Series The Future of the Human Alternative 9781032041216 DEWEY 128 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139862396;

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