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Coimbra Group 3-Minute-Thesis

Registration deadline: 05/01/2024

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Interdisciplinary Invited Lectures: "We have always been Cyborgs" provided by Prof. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, John Cabot University in Roma

Interdisciplinary Invited Lectures: "We have always been Cyborgs" provided by Prof. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, John Cabot University in Roma

Meeting date: 2021-03-19 (Friday), 18.30, Access code: royuw3s (MS Teams)

A non-empirically accessible concept of rationality used to be dominant in the Western philosophical tradition from Plato via the Stoics, and Descartes to Kant. With Darwin and Nietzsche, a paradigm-shift towards a non-dualist understanding of anthropoid was initialized, which lead to a re-interpretation of the concept of rationality which is no longer seen as an immaterial divine spark but rather as an emergent empirically accessible property. Such a reconceptualization of anthropoi has a myriad of implications, as the categorical duality between emotions and rationality no longer applies as a plausible anthropology.

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Bio

Stefan Lorenz Sorgner is a tenured philosophy professor at John Cabot University in Rome and is director and co-founder of the Beyond Humanism Network, Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET), Research Fellow at the Ewha Institute for the Humanities at Ewha Womans University in Seoul and Visiting Fellow at the Ethics Centre of the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena. He is editor of more than 10 essay collections, and author of the following monographs: Metaphysics without Truth (Marquette University Press 2007), Menschenwürde nach Nietzsche (WBG 2010), Transhumanismus (Herder 2016), Schöner neuer Mensch (Nicolai, 2018), Übermensch (Schwabe 2019), On Transhumanism (Penn State University Press 2020), We have always been cyborgs (Bristol University Press, 2021). In addition, he is Editor-in-Chief and Founding Editor of the “Journal of Posthuman Studies” (a double-blind peer review journal, published by Penn State University Press since 2017). Furthermore, he is in great demand as a speaker in all parts of the world (World Humanities Forum, Global Solutions Taipei Workshop, Biennale Arte Venezia, TEDx) and a regular contact person of national and international journalists and media representatives (Die Zeit, Cicero, Der Standard; Die Presse am Sonntag). www.sorgner.de