Seminar Schedule

16.10. First Meeting and Introduction into the Topic

Affirmative and Critical Perspectives on Transhumanism and (Strong) AI

23.10. Donna Harraway: A Cyborg Manifesto[1]

30.10. Max More: Transhumanist Declaration; Letter to Mother Nature, in: Transhumanist Reader, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, 54-55; 449-450;

Nick Bostrom, Why I Want to Be a Postuman When I Grow Up, ibid., 28-53

06.11. Jaron Lanier: The Myth of AI[2]

13.11. Yuval Noah Harari: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Random Books 2018, ch. 2 and 3 (Work and Liberty)

Theological Perspectives

20.11. Dirk Evers: "Know Thyself", in: Humanity: An Endangered Idea, Tübingen 2023, 245-270

27.11. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson: Human Flourishing in the Age of Technology, ibid., 171-208.

04.12. George M. Coghill: Artificial Intelligence (and Christianity), Studies in Christian Ethics 36/3 (2023)[3]

11.12. Lluis Oviedo, Artificial intelligence and theology, Zygon 2022[4]

08.01. Final Discussion

[1] https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fictionnownarrative
mediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_----_a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_
socialist-feminism_in_the_....pdf

[2] https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-the-myth-of-ai

[3] https://doi.org/10.1177/09539468231169462

[4] https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12832