Post-Human Futures

Mark Carrigan is Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.Douglas V. Porpora is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Communication at Drexel University, USA.

• 1. Being Human (or What?) in the Digital Matrix Land: The Construction of the Humanted 2. Being Human as an Option: How to Rescue Personal Ontology from Transhumanism, and (Above All) Why Bother 3. Perplexity Logs: On Routinized Certainty Work and Social Consequences of Seeking Advice from an Artificial Intelligence 4. Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Social Care in Aging Societies: Who or What Will Care for Us in the Future? 5. Why Should Enhanced and Unenhanced Humans Care for Each Other? 6. Can Humans and AI Robots be Friends? 7. Humanity’s End: Where Will We Be in a Million Years?

"The book contributes to debates about the dualism of structure and agency which have their origins in (critical) realism. Post-Human Futures: Human Enhancement, Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory (Carrigan and Porpora 2021) distinguishes between the epistemological and the ontological realms and establishes a new humanism that will be meaningful to praxis. "-Birgul Ulutas, Postdigital Science and Education