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  title info:
    title: After the human
    sub title: a philosophy for the future
  name:
    name part: Taylor, Mark C.
    name part: 1945-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 382 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: After the Human explores how the strategies and methods of scientific as well as humanistic inquiry are converging to construct a relational view of the world. It evaluates Einstein's theory of relativity, quantum theory, information theory, cognitive neuropsychology and evolution alongside the history of modern western philosophy, arguing that presumptions such as human exceptionalism and individualism are not only out of sync with scientific knowledge but also root causes of the critical issues facing the world, climate change, machine intelligence and ideological political oppositions. How to think beyond anthropocentrism and binary oppositions, human/animal, sacred/profane and acknowledge ourselves as entangled parts of larger ecologies is the aim of the book. The distinctive character of the book is its wealth of scientific insight. The opening chapter reveals the complex worlds of dirt, water, air and fire and how humans have deformed them beyond recognition. Extraordinary advances in technology, with their promise of furthering a global village, have been derailed by economic individualism and hierarchy, prefigured in the atomism of Descartes and Newton. Not until Einstein, Bohr, and Heisenberg introduced relativity and quantum mechanics, less than a century after Hegel first proposed his dialogical worldview, did a relational account of reality begin to develop. The study of the natural world revealed a microuniverse of relations in which organisms and environments constantly adapt to one another, as Lynn Margulis puts it, 'life is a verb,' webs and networks of intelligences and emotions communicating within and across species and nonbiological life forms including AI. We have only to change not the world but how we see ourselves in it.
  note: Mark C. Taylor.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Inquiry (Theory of knowledge)
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: Similarity (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Polarity (Philosophy)
  classification: BD183 .T44 2025
  classification: 121/.6
  identifier: 9780231218603
  identifier: 0231218605
  identifier: 9780231218610
  identifier: 0231218613
  identifier: 9780231562362
  identifier: 2024024923
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240604
    record change date: 20250326133414.3
    record identifier: in00005620966