The cultural program Read, Think, Imagine next to Cartagena Think, present tomorrow Thursday, November 17, the conference "Posthumanism: hope or threat of technoscience?", Which will be given at the Adult Library of the Ramón Alonso Cultural Center Luzzy.
The event, which will begin at 20:00 hours, will be the responsibility of the professor of Philosophy Eugenio Moya, who will be accompanied by the doctor the Philosophy Antonio José Cano.
This activity is framed within the cycle Thinking nature, think humanity, that within the schedule of this quarter of Cartagena Piensa organizes the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Murcia.
Having abandoned the old socio-political utopias of the twentieth century, technoscience promises us in the new beginning of the twenty-first century new paradises: winning the fight against aging;
Cloning and replacement of damaged organs;
Reprogram our corporal, intellectual and moral endowments;
Life on other planets;
In short, to redesign the human condition and its surroundings.
These are hitherto unsuspected possibilities that force us to reflect on what humanity is and, above all, what we want to do about it and its world.
Eugenio Moya is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Murcia.
Teaches Philosophy of Technology and Theory of Knowledge.
Coordinates the editorial collection Editum Scientia.
It deals with the relationships between technoscience, nature and society.
He is the author of Criticism of Technoscientific Reason (1998), Thinking the Present (2010), "Poultry, Pigs, Cows and Other Follies" (2013), Philosophy of Technoscience (2014), "Philosophy, Intelligence in connection "(2016).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena