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This anthology of 16 chapters (see details below) is VOLUME 4 of
the DEATH AND ANTI-DEATH series by Ria University Press. Most of
the contributions consist of scholarship unique to this volume.
Includes index. Although published in honor of Simone de Beauvoir
(1908-1986) and Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), the chapters do NOT
necessarily mention Simone de Beauvoir or Martin Heidegger. The 16
chapters (by professional philosophers and other professional
scholars) ARE directed to issues related to death, life extension,
and anti-death - as follows: 1. Mechanism, Galileo's Animale And
Heidegger's Gestell: Reflections On The Lifelessness Of Modern
Science (by Giorgio Baruchello); 2. Simone De Beauvoir (by Debra
Bergoffen); 3. Existentialism (by Steven Crowell); 4. Time Wounds
All Heels (by William Grey); 5. The Ethical Importance Of Death (by
Jenann Ismael); 6. The Poetics Of Death: Intimations And Illusions
(by Lawrence Kimmel); 7. Death And Aesthetics (by Keith Lehrer); 8.
Ageing And Existentialism: Simone De Beauvoir And The Limits Of
Freedom (by Shannon M. Mussett); 9. Life Extension And Meaning (by
Carol O'Brien); 10. Consciousness As Computation: A Defense Of
Strong AI Based On Quantum-State Functionalism (by R. Michael
Perry); 11. Reality Shifts: On The Death And Dying Of Dr. Timothy
Leary (by Carol Sue Rosin); 12. Extraterrestrial Liberty And The
Great Transmutation (by Charles Tandy); 13. A Time Travel Schema
And Eight Types Of Time Travel (by Charles Tandy); 14. Boredom,
Experimental Ethics, And Superlongevity (by Mark Walker); 15.
Exopolitics: The Death Of Death (by Alfred Lambremont Webre); 16.
Embryo Cloning: Current State Of The Medical Art And Its
Far-Reaching Consequences ForMultiple Applications (by Panayiotis
M. Zavos).
Volume Three in the Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria University
Press is in honor of Albert Einstein and Soren Kierkegaard. The
chapters do not necessarily mention Einstein or Kierkegaard. The 17
chapters (by professional philosophers and other professional
scholars) are directed to issues related to death, life extension,
and anti-death. Most of the 400-plus pages consists of scholarship
unique to this volume. Includes Index. ---CHAPTER ONE: Death And
Life Support Systems: A Novel Cultural Exploration by Giorgio
Baruchello. ---CHAPTER TWO: Recent Developments In The Ethics,
Science, And Politics Of Life-Extension by Nick Bostrom. ---CHAPTER
THREE: Life, And The Concept Of A Relativistic Field In Kant by
Douglas Burnham. ---CHAPTER FOUR: Towards An Ethics Of Ontogeny by
Anthony S. Dawber. ---CHAPTER FIVE: An Easy Death by Mikhail
Epstein. ---CHAPTER SIX: Fear Of Death And Muddled Thinking -- It
Is So Much Worse Than You Think by Robin Hanson. ---CHAPTER SEVEN:
The Illusiveness Of Immortality by James J. Hughes. ---CHAPTER
EIGHT: A Question Of Endings by Lawrence Kimmel. ---CHAPTER NINE:
What Is Left After Death? by Jack Lee. ---CHAPTER TEN: Life
Extension And Pleasure: Can The Prolongation Of (Self)
Consciousness Deliver Greater Pleasure Or Happiness? by Carol
O'Brien. ---CHAPTER ELEVEN: Raising The Dead Scientifically:
Fedorov's Project In A Modern Form by R. Michael Perry. ---CHAPTER
TWELVE: The Emulation Argument: A Modification Of Bostrom's
Simulation Argument by Charles Tandy. ---CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Managing
The Consequences Of Rapid Social Change by Natasha Vita-More.
---CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Eros And Thanatos -- The Establishment Of
Individuality by Werner J. Wagner. ---CHAPTERFIFTEEN: Universal
Superlongevity: Is It Inevitable And Is It Good? by Mark Walker.
---CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Return To A Pristine Ecosphere Via Molecular
Nanotechnology by Sinclair T. Wang. ---CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Fedorov's
Legacy: The Cosmist View Of Man's Role In The Universe by George M.
Young.
This 2005 edition (ISBN 0-9743472-4-8 in the Cultural Classics
Series by Ria University Press) contains an exact replica copy of
the complete first edition of Robert C. W. Ettinger's 1972 cultural
classic, MAN INTO SUPERMAN. Additional (2005) materials include
three paper contributions: (1) "A Short History of Transhumanist
Thought" (By Nick Bostrom, Ph.D.); (2) "A Brief History of Modern
Transhumanism" (By R. Michael Perry, Ph.D.); and, (3) "My Dog Is A
Very Good Dog -- Or -- The Unprecedented Urgency Of New Research
Priorities To Dismantle Doomsday And Cultivate Transhumanity" (By
Charles Tandy, Ph.D.). >>> In the 1960s Ettinger founded
the cryonics (cryonic hibernation) movement and authored THE
PROSPECT OF IMMORTALITY. In the 1970s Ettinger helped initiate the
transhumanist revolution with his MAN INTO SUPERMAN. Ettinger sees
"discontinuity in history, with mortality and humanity on one side
-- on the other immortality and transhumanity." >>>
Cryonic hibernation (experimental long-term suspended animation) of
humans may provide a "door into summer" unlike any season
previously known. Such patients (individuals and families in
cryonic hibernation) may yet experience the transhuman condition.
Ettinger argues for his belief in "the possibility of limitless
life for our generation." We should become aware of the incorrect,
distorted, and oversimplified ideas presented in the popular media
about cryonics and transhumanism. Ettinger believes that the cool
logic and scientific evidence he presents should lead us to forget
the horror movies and urban legends and embrace great expectations.
>>> An abstract of Dr. Bostrom's paper follows:
Transhumanism in Western history (partial listing oftopics): Our
ambivalent quest to transcend natural limits; Rational humanism as
a root of transhumanism; Ben Franklin as favoring suspended
animation; Darwin and possibility that most evolution remains in
future; Frankenstein (1818) and science fiction; Racism and
totalitarianism in the 20th century; Julian Huxley (1927) uses term
"transhumanism"; Artificial Intelligence; The Singularity;
Molecular Nanotechnology; Uploading of Minds; Robert Ettinger
(1964) advocates experimental long-term suspended animation now
(cryonics and the likelihood of transmortality and transhumanity);
F. M. Esfandiary and UpWingers; Max More and the Extropy Institute;
Nick Bostrom and the World Transhumanist Association; James Hughes
and the new 21st century politics of biotechnology. >>> An
abstract of Dr. Perry's paper follows: In 1964, Ettinger advocated
freezing the newly deceased for possible future reanimation. But
the transhumanist camp that emerged is not limited to cryonicists.
Transhumanist thought includes (to cite only a few): Alan
Harrington (1969) THE IMMORTALIST (Scientific conquest of death);
F. M. Esfandiary (1970) OPTIMISM ONE (UpWing, instead of
Left-Middle-Right, philosophy); Eric Drexler (1986) ENGINES OF
CREATION (Molecular nanotechnology); Damien Broderick (1997) THE
SPIKE (During the 21st century we will become a new family of
life-forms); According to Frank Tipler (1994) THE PHYSICS OF
IMMORTALITY and R. Michael Perry (2000) FOREVER FOR ALL, the more
distant future may include scientific resurrection of all the dead.
>>> An abstract of Dr. Tandy's paper follows: Particular
cultural traditions have informed each civilization's felt
educational needs to become "us" or "human" (instead ofbarbarian)
or to become "educated" or "transhuman" (instead of merely human).
The twentieth century surprised many of us with its world wars and
doomsday weapons (WMDs). If we survive all doomsday dangers over
the next few years and decades and centuries, then our future as
humans or transhumans may be longer -- much longer -- than the mere
10,000 years of past civilizational existence. Our pasts are short
and almost non-existent compared to the potential reality of a very
long future. This paper explores the educational implications of
such a complex reality.
In the 1960s Robert Ettinger founded the cryonics (cryonic
hibernation) movement and authored THE PROSPECT OF IMMORTALITY.
(And in the 1970s Ettinger would help initiate the transhumanist
revolution with his MAN INTO SUPERMAN.) Ettinger sees
"discontinuity in history, with mortality and humanity on one side
-- on the other immortality and transhumanity." [[P: ]] This 2005
edition (ISBN 0-9743472-3-X) contains an exact replica copy of the
complete first edition of Ettinger's 1964 cultural classic, THE
PROSPECT OF IMMORTALITY. (The Cultural Classics Series By Ria
University Press is edited by Charles Tandy, Ph.D.) Additional
(2005) materials include comments by others -- "Developments In
Cryonics 1964-2005" -- written especially for this 21st century
edition: (1) "The State of Cryonics -- 2005" (By Jim Yount); and,
(2) "A Brief History of Cryonics" (By R. Michael Perry). A new
(2005) Introduction by Charles Tandy is entitled "Ettinger's 1964
Thesis: Indefinitely Extended And Enhanced Life (Immortality) Is
Probably Already Here Via Experimental Long-Term Suspended
Animation" [[P: ]] James Bedford began his journey as "the first
cryonaut" on January 12, 1967; as of 2005, he and many others
remain in cryonic hibernation. According to Ettinger, cryonic
hibernation (experimental long-term suspended animation) of humans
may provide a "door into summer" unlike any season previously
known. Such patients (individuals and families in cryonic
hibernation) may yet experience the transhuman condition. Ettinger
argues for his belief in "the possibility of limitless life for our
generation." We should become aware of the incorrect, distorted,
and oversimplified ideas presented in the popular media
aboutcryonics. He believes that the cool logic and scientific
evidence he presents should lead us to forget the horror movies and
urban legends and embrace great expectations.
ABOUT THE DEATH AND ANTI-DEATH SERIES: The Death And Anti-Death
Series By Ria University Press discusses issues and controversies
related to death, life extension, and anti-death. A variety of
differing points of view are presented and argued. The following
volumes in the series have been published:
_________________________________________________ Death And
Anti-Death, Volume 1: One Hundred Years After N. F. Fedorov
(1829-1903) (Edited By Charles Tandy, Ph.D.) -- ISBN 0-9743472-0-5
is available from most bookstores -- The anthology discusses a
number of interdisciplinary cultural, psychological, metaphysical,
and moral issues and controversies related to death, life
extension, and anti-death. This first volume in the series is in
honor of the 19th century Russian philosopher N. F. Fedorov. (Some
of the contributions are about Fedorov; most are not.) Each of the
17 chapters includes a selected or short bibliography. The
anthology also contains an Introduction and an Index -- as well as
an Abstracts section that serves as an extended table of contents.
A variety of differing points of view are presented and argued.
Most of the 400-plus pages consists of contributions unique to this
volume. Although of interest to the general reader, the anthology
functions well as a textbook for university courses in culture
studies, death-related controversies, ethics, futuristics,
humanities, interdisciplinary studies, life extension issues,
metaphysics, and psychology.
_________________________________________________ Death And
Anti-Death, Volume 2: Two Hundred Years After Kant, Fifty Years
After Turing (Edited By Charles Tandy, Ph.D.) -- ISBN 0-9743472-2-1
is available from most bookstores -- Thefollowing contributions are
original to this volume of the Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria
University Press: > Is The Universe Immortal?: Is Cosmic
Evolution Never-Ending? (By Charles Tandy) > Death As Metaphor
(By Lawrence Kimmel) > Fantasies Of Immortality (By Werner J.
Wagner) > What Will The Immortals Eat? (By George M. Young) >
Cultural Death Understanding (By Anthony S. Dawber) > Death And
Immortality: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas And Descartes On The Soul
(By Carol O'Brien) > Against The Immortality Of The Soul (By
Matt McCormick) > Why Death Is (Probably) Bad For You: A Common
Sense Approach (By R.C.W. Ettinger) > Resurrecting Kant's
Postulate Of Immortality (By Scott R. Stroud) > Immortality and
Finitude: Kant's Moral Argument Reconsidered (By Douglas Burnham)
> Death, Harm, And The Deprivation Theory (By Jack Li) > To
Be Or Not To Be: The Zombie In The Computer (By R.C.W. Ettinger)
> The Future Of Human Evolution (By Nick Bostrom) >
Earthlings Get Off Your Ass Now!: Becoming Person, Learning
Community (By Charles Tandy) ABOUT THE EDITOR: Dr. Charles Tandy
received his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education from the University
of Missouri at Columbia (USA) before becoming a Visiting Scholar in
the Philosophy Department at Stanford University (USA). Presently
Dr. Tandy is Associate Professor of Humanities, and Director of the
Center for Interdisciplinary Philosophic Studies, at Fooyin
University (Taiwan). Dr. Tandy is author or editor of numerous
publications, including The Philosophy Of Robert Ettinger (2002);
and, Death And Anti-Death, Volume 1 (2003). For more information,
see .
Death And Anti-Death, Volume 1: One Hundred Years After N. F.
Fedorov (1829-1903)Charles Tandy, Ph.D., EditorISBN
0-9743472-0-5Ria University Press (Palo Alto, California USA) The
anthology discusses a number of interdisciplinary cultural,
psychological, metaphysical, and moral issues and controversies
related to death, life extension, and anti-death. This first volume
in the series (The Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria University
Press) is in honor of the 19th century Russian philosopher N. F.
Fedorov. (Some of the contributions are about Fedorov; most are
not.) Each of the 17 chapters includes a selected or short
bibliography. The anthology also contains an Introduction and an
Index -- as well as an Abstracts section that serves as an extended
table of contents. A variety of differing points of view are
presented and argued. Most of the 400-plus pages consists of
contributions unique to this volume. Although of interest to the
general reader, the anthology functions well as a textbook for
university courses in culture studies, death-related controversies,
ethics, futuristics, humanities, interdisciplinary studies, life
extension issues, metaphysics, and psychology. Professional
philosophers and scholars contributing to this volume include the
following: Giorgio Baruchello, Ph.D.; Troy T. Catterson, Ph.D.;
John M. Collins, Ph.D.; Anthony S. Dawber, M.A.; Richard Greene,
Ph.D.; William Grey, Ph.D.; Julian Lamont, Ph.D.; Jack Li, Ph.D.;
Steven Luper, Ph.D.; Harry R. Moody, Ph.D.; Robert R. Newport,
M.D.; Scott David O'Reilly; James P. Scanlan, Ph.D.; Daniela
Steila, Ph.D.; David S. Stodolsky, Ph.D.; Charles Tandy, Ph.D.;
Mark Taormina; Werner J. Wagner, Ph.D.; George M. Young, Ph.D.
Robert Ettinger founded the cryonics (cryonic hibernation) movement
in the 1960s and authored The Prospect of Immortality and Man into
Superman. The ideas presented by Ettinger in these two books are
examined in the present volume by living philosophers.
The Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria University Press discusses
issues and controversies related to death, life extension, and
anti-death. A variety of differing points of view are presented and
argued. Death And Anti-Death, Volume 11: Ten Years After Donald
Davidson (1917-2003) is edited by Charles Tandy, Ph.D.: ISBN
978-1-934297-17-9 is the Hardback edition and ISBN
978-1-934297-18-6 is the Paperback edition. Volume 11, as indicated
by the anthology's subtitle, is in honor of Donald Davidson
(1917-2003). The chapters do not necessarily mention him (but some
chapters do). The chapters (by professional philosophers and other
professional scholars) are directed to issues related to death,
life extension, and anti-death, broadly construed. Most of the
contributions consist of scholarship unique to this volume. As was
the case with all previous volumes in the Death And Anti-Death
Series By Ria University Press, the anthology includes an Index as
well as an Abstracts section that serves as an extended table of
contents. There are 12 chapters, as follows: ------CHAPTER ONE Do
We Really Want Immortality? (by David Brin) pages 25-42;
------CHAPTER TWO The Importance Of Being Identical: On How Not To
Derive A Contradiction Within A Metaphysical Theory (by Troy
Catterson) 43-60; ------CHAPTER THREE In Saecula Saeculorum?
Bioscience, Biotechnology And The Construct Of Death: A
Neurobioethical View (by Christine Fitzpatrick and James Giordano)
61-80; ------CHAPTER FOUR Making Death Worth Its Cost: Prolegomena
To Any Future Necronomics (by Steve Fuller) 81-92; ------CHAPTER
FIVE On What Persists After Death (by Vladimir V. Kalugin) 93-104;
------CHAPTER SIX Extreme Lifespans Via Perpetual-Equalising
Interventions: The ELPIs Hypothesis (by Marios Kyriazis) 105-124;
------CHAPTER SEVEN What Philosophy Ought To Be (by Nicholas
Maxwell) 125-162; ------CHAPTER EIGHT Resurrecting The Dead Through
Future Technology: Parallel Recreation As An Alternative To Quantum
Archaeology (by R. Michael Perry) 163-172; ------CHAPTER NINE
Supervenient Spirituality And The Meaning Of Life (by Gabriel
Segal) 173-190; ------CHAPTER TEN What Might It Take To Get From
Donald Davidson's Mature Philosophical Position To Recognize The
Possibility, And Even Plausibility, Of An Afterlife? (by Charles
Taliaferro and Christophe Porot) 191-210; ------CHAPTER ELEVEN
Roger Penrose, Rupert Sheldrake, And The Future Of Consciousness
(by Charles Tandy) 211-228; ------CHAPTER TWELVE Rational Suicide
And Global Suicide In The Amor Fati Of Modal Totality (by Sascha
Vongehr) 229-268; ------The INDEX begins on page 269.
The Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria University Press discusses
issues and controversies related to death, life extension, and
anti-death. A variety of differing points of view are presented and
argued. Death And Anti-Death, Volume 11: Ten Years After Donald
Davidson (1917-2003) is edited by Charles Tandy, Ph.D.: ISBN
978-1-934297-17-9 is the Hardback edition and ISBN
978-1-934297-18-6 is the Paperback edition. Volume 11, as indicated
by the anthology's subtitle, is in honor of Donald Davidson
(1917-2003). The chapters do not necessarily mention him (but some
chapters do). The chapters (by professional philosophers and other
professional scholars) are directed to issues related to death,
life extension, and anti-death, broadly construed. Most of the
contributions consist of scholarship unique to this volume. As was
the case with all previous volumes in the Death And Anti-Death
Series By Ria University Press, the anthology includes an Index as
well as an Abstracts section that serves as an extended table of
contents. There are 12 chapters, as follows: ------CHAPTER ONE Do
We Really Want Immortality? (by David Brin) pages 25-42;
------CHAPTER TWO The Importance Of Being Identical: On How Not To
Derive A Contradiction Within A Metaphysical Theory (by Troy
Catterson) 43-60; ------CHAPTER THREE In Saecula Saeculorum?
Bioscience, Biotechnology And The Construct Of Death: A
Neurobioethical View (by Christine Fitzpatrick and James Giordano)
61-80; ------CHAPTER FOUR Making Death Worth Its Cost: Prolegomena
To Any Future Necronomics (by Steve Fuller) 81-92; ------CHAPTER
FIVE On What Persists After Death (by Vladimir V. Kalugin) 93-104;
------CHAPTER SIX Extreme Lifespans Via Perpetual-Equalising
Interventions: The ELPIs Hypothesis (by Marios Kyriazis) 105-124;
------CHAPTER SEVEN What Philosophy Ought To Be (by Nicholas
Maxwell) 125-162; ------CHAPTER EIGHT Resurrecting The Dead Through
Future Technology: Parallel Recreation As An Alternative To Quantum
Archaeology (by R. Michael Perry) 163-172; ------CHAPTER NINE
Supervenient Spirituality And The Meaning Of Life (by Gabriel
Segal) 173-190; ------CHAPTER TEN What Might It Take To Get From
Donald Davidson's Mature Philosophical Position To Recognize The
Possibility, And Even Plausibility, Of An Afterlife? (by Charles
Taliaferro and Christophe Porot) 191-210; ------CHAPTER ELEVEN
Roger Penrose, Rupert Sheldrake, And The Future Of Consciousness
(by Charles Tandy) 211-228; ------CHAPTER TWELVE Rational Suicide
And Global Suicide In The Amor Fati Of Modal Totality (by Sascha
Vongehr) 229-268; ------The INDEX begins on page 269.
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