Animals, Robots, Gods - Adventures in the Moral Imagination

Webb Keane is the George Herbert Mead Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, and the author of multiple pioneering works on the philosophy of social thought. His research has been featured in Los Angeles Times, Esquire, USA Today, Financial Times, CBS TV News, among others.>

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Webb Keane is the George Herbert Mead Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, and the author of multiple pioneering works on the philosophy of social thought. His research has been featured in Los Angeles Times, Esquire, USA Today, Financial Times, and on CBS TV News, among others.

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This book is penetrating, illuminating, wise, learned, and surprising. The chapters on robots and Artificial Intelligence are simply the best yet written on the subject. The excitement and anxieties about this new technology revisit perennial questions about the nature of being human and our duties to god-like beings - it is fitting that an anthropologist should be the one to show this. An extraordinary achievement Scott Shapiro

Product details

• Authors: Webb Keane, Keane Webb
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2024
• EAN: 9780241613207
• ISBN: 978-0-241-61320-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 225 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Artificial Intelligence, NATURE / Animal Rights, Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology & anthropology, Animals and society, Ethical issues and debates, Animals and society / Animal rights - issues and debates