After the Human - A Philosophy for the Future

After the Human is an ambitious and audacious grand synthesis that weaves together philosophy, theology, quantum mechanics, relativity theory, information theory, ecology, plant and animal cognition, and artificial intelligence to forge a new philosophical vision for the future.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Hors d’oeuvre
1. Elemental
2. Lost World
3. Relationalism
4. Relativity
5. Entanglement
6. Information in Formation
7. Quantum Ecology
8. Minding the Body
9. Infinite Conversations
10. Strange Loops
11. After Life
Notes
Index

About the author

Mark C. Taylor taught at Williams College and Columbia University. He is the author of more than thirty books, including most recently A Friendship in Twilight: Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life, with Jack Miles (Columbia, 2022). Taylor lives in the Berkshire Mountains, where he is creating a philosophical sculpture garden named neΧus.

Summary

After the Human is an ambitious and audacious grand synthesis that weaves together philosophy, theology, quantum mechanics, relativity theory, information theory, ecology, plant and animal cognition, and artificial intelligence to forge a new philosophical vision for the future.

Product details

• Authors: Mark C. Taylor, Mark C. (Chair and Professor Taylor, Taylor Mark C.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.02.2025
• EAN: 9780231218603
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21860-3
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy of religion