Undergraduate Module Descriptor

SOC2096: Cyborg Studies

This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Sample reading:

 

Bostrom, Nick (2005a) “A History of Transhumanist Thought”, Journal of Evolution and Technology 14/1: 1-25.

 

Bostrom N (2003) Are we living in a computer simulation? Philos Q.

 

Chalmers, D. (2010/2014), Mind Uploading: A Philosophical Analysis ([Published in (D. Broderick and R. Blackford, eds.) Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds (Blackwell, 2014). This paper is an excerpt from “The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis,” published in The Journal of Consciousness Studies (17: 7-65, 2010).])

 

 

Dvorsky, G. (2008), “All Together Now: Developmental and ethical considerations for biologically uplifting nonhuman animals”, Journal of Evolution and Technology 18/1: 129-140

 

Fenton E (2010) The perils of failing to enhance: A response to Persson and Savulescu. J Med Ethics 36:148–151

 

Ferrando F (2013) Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism, Metahumanism, and New Materialisms: Differences and Relations. 82:26–32

 

Haraway, D. ([1985] 2016). "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and SocialistFeminism in the Late Twentieth Century." In Manifestly Haraway. Donna Haraway and Cary Wolfe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

 

 

Hauskeller, Michael (2009) “Making Sense of What We Are. A Mythological Approach to Human Nature”, Philosophy 84: 1-15.

 

Laukyte M (2019) Against Human Exceptionalism: Environmental Ethics and the Machine Question. Springer, Cham, pp 325–339

 

Searle, J. (2014). What Your Computer Cant Know. New York Review of Books.

 

Temkin, L. (2008) “Is living longer living better?” Journal of Applied Philosophy 25.3: 193-210.