John Cabot University in Rome is pleased to welcome IEET Fellow Dr. Stefan Sorgner as a new professor of philosophy and bioethics.

Sorgner is one of the world’s leading post- and transhumanist philosophers. He joins John Cabot’s faculty after teaching at a number of universities across Germany and Austria. He is also the director and co-founder of the Beyond Humanism Network.

In Spring 2016, Professor Sorgner will teach two new courses  through the Department of History and Humanities.

His course on Posthuman Studies: Philosophy, Technology, Media (PH 320) will introduce students to ethical, philosophical, and artistic questions raised by the rapid technological, scientific, and cultural changes of our era. Students will tackle issues such as biological and genetic enhancement, artificial intelligence, the impacts of new media, and the future of employment in a technology-based society, and explore how these issues take us beyond the standard capacities and dualistic concepts of ‘human’ beings (as disembodied ‘minds’, for instance) into a ‘posthuman’ future.

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