Philosophy After Nature by Braidotti Rosi; Dolphijn Rick;

Author:Braidotti, Rosi; Dolphijn, Rick;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International

Notes

1David Roden, Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human (London: Routledge, 2014), 5, 97–98, 166–193; Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman (Cambridge: Polity), 38–39.

2Ray Brassier, ‘The View from Nowhere’, Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture , 17 (2011): 7–23; Reza Negarestani, ‘The Labor of the Inhuman, Part I: Human’, E- f lux, accessed 30 April 2014, http://www.e-flux.com/journal/the-labor-of-the-inhuman-part-i-human/; ‘The Labor of the Inhuman, Part II: Inhuman’, E-flux, accessed 30 April 2014, http://www.e-flux.com/journal/the-labor-of-the-inhuman-part-ii-the-inhuman/; Alex Williams, ‘Escape Velocities’, E-flux , 46 (2013), accessed July 2013, http://worker01.e-flux.com/pdf/article_8969785.pdf.

3I’ve coined the term ‘wide descent’ because exclusive consideration of biological descendants of humanity as candidates for posthumanity would be excessively restrictive. Post-human-making technologies may involve discrete biotechnical modifications of the reproductive process such as human cloning, the introduction of transgenic or artificial genetic material or seemingly exotic processes like mind uploading. Thus entities warranting our concern with the post-human could emerge via modified biological descent, recursive extension of artificial intelligence technologies (involving human and/or non-human designers), quasi-biological descent from synthetic organisms, a convergence of the above or via some technogenetic process yet to be envisaged! (Roden, 2012, 2014: 22).

4Roden, ‘The Disconnection Thesis’, in The Singularity Hypothesis: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment, Eds. Amnon H. Eden, Johnny H. Soraker, James H. Moor and Eric Steinhart (London: Springer, 2012): 281–298; Posthuman Life, chapter 5.

5This formulation allows that post-humans could be descended from technological assemblages that are existentially dependent on servicing ‘narrow’ human goals. Becoming non-human in this sense is not a matter of losing a human essence but of ceasing to belong to a human-oriented sociotechnical system which I call the ‘Wide Human’ (Roden, ‘The Disconnection Thesis’, Posthuman Life, 109–113). I refer to the claim that becoming post-human consists in becoming independent of the Wide Human as ‘the Disconnection Thesis’. Several critical discussions of the disconnection thesis and related themes in Posthuman Life are archived at http://www.philpercs.com/2015/07/posthuman-life-reading-group-summer-2015.html.

6See Roden, Posthuman Life, chapters 7 and 8.

7See Roden, Posthuman Life, chapters 5 and 6.

8Roden, Posthuman Life, 53.

9Vincent C. Punzo, Reflective Naturalism: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy (New York: Macmillan, 1969), cited in Daryl Wennemann, Posthuman Personhood (New York: University Press of America, 2013), 47.

10See also Roden, ‘Nature’s Dark Domain: An Argument for a Naturalised Phenomenology’, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , 72 (2013): 169–188.

11Robert Brandom, ‘Kantian Lessons About Mind, Meaning, and Rationality’, Southern Journal of Philosophy , 44 (2006): 49–71.

12Brandom also follows Kant in trying to understand semantic notions like reference and truth in terms of their roles in articulating judgements rather than as semantic or representational primitives (Brandom, Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment [Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994], 79–80).

13Jeremy Wanderer, Robert Brandom (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2008): 29–30.

14Daniel C. Dennett, The Intentional Stance (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press): 13–42.

15Intentional systems are unlikely to contain just sawdust or stuffing, but IS theory is agnostic regarding their internal machinery. Thus it undercuts both eliminativism and reductionism while providing a workable methodology for investigations into the mechanisms that actuate intentional systems.

16Brandom, Making It Explicit, 59.

17Brandom, Making It Explicit, 60.

18Brandom, Making It Explicit, 60, 276.

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