Daryl Wennemann received his Ph. D. in philosophy from Marquette University in 1994. He has been teaching philosophy at Fontbonne University since 1996. He teaches ethics and a course in critical thinking. He has authored three books, Applied Professional Ethics (co-authored with Gregory Beabout), Capitalism and Community in the Information Age (in a Kindle format), and Posthuman Personhood (University Press of America, May, 2013).
He has published sixteen articles including "Freedom", Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, ed., Carl Mitcham, MacMillan, June 1, 2005. "Kant", Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, ed., Carl Mitcham, MacMillan, June 1, 2005. "Jacques Ellul's Assessment of the Thought of Karl Marx", published in the Journal of Professional Proceedings of the Philosophy Delegation to the People's Republic of China, 2001. "The Future of Work and the Worker: Peter Drucker's Search for Community", The Halcyon Series, Western Futures, vol. 22, Jan., 2000, pp 125-140. "The Role of Love in the Thought of Kant and Kierkegaard", proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Paideia: Philosophy Educating Humanity, March 2000
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The Personhood Beyond the Human conference was organized by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Yale University, Yale's Animal Ethics Group and Yale's Technology and Ethics Group.
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Abstract: In this work, I begin with a treatment of Francis Fukuyama's Our Posthuman Future. I argue that the traditional concept of personhood may be applied in a posthuman age. After introducing quasi-Sellarsian convention, I argue that All humanB beings are humanM , i.e., persons (All biologically human beings are morally human. But, it is not necessarily the case that all humanM beings (morally human beings) must be humanB (biologically human). After drawing on a contemporary version of Kant's distinction between a theoretical possibility and a real possibility, I argue that non-humanB persons, like genetically altered humanB beings, robots, computers, or aliens, are a theoretical possibility but we do not know if they are a real possibility. Finally, I describe an ethic of self-limitation for the posthuman age.
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On December 8, 2013 Daryl Wennemann spoke on "Posthuman Personhood" at the Personhood Beyond the Human conference at Yale University.
Daryl Wennemann received his Ph. D. in philosophy from Marquette University in 1994. He has been teaching philosophy at Fontbonne University since 1996. He teaches ethics and a course in critical thinking. He has authored three books, Applied Professional Ethics (co-authored with Gregory Beabout), Capitalism and Community in the Information Age (in a Kindle format), and Posthuman Personhood (University Press of America, May, 2013).
He has published sixteen articles including "Freedom", Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, ed., Carl Mitcham, MacMillan, June 1, 2005. "Kant", Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, ed., Carl Mitcham, MacMillan, June 1, 2005. "Jacques Ellul's Assessment of the Thought of Karl Marx", published in the Journal of Professional Proceedings of the Philosophy Delegation to the People's Republic of China, 2001. "The Future of Work and the Worker: Peter Drucker's Search for Community", The Halcyon Series, Western Futures, vol. 22, Jan., 2000, pp 125-140. "The Role of Love in the Thought of Kant and Kierkegaard", proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Paideia: Philosophy Educating Humanity, March 2000
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The Personhood Beyond the Human conference was organized by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Yale University, Yale's Animal Ethics Group and Yale's Technology and Ethics Group.
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Abstract: In this work, I begin with a treatment of Francis Fukuyama's Our Posthuman Future. I argue that the traditional concept of personhood may be applied in a posthuman age. After introducing quasi-Sellarsian convention, I argue that All humanB beings are humanM , i.e., persons (All biologically human beings are morally human. But, it is not necessarily the case that all humanM beings (morally human beings) must be humanB (biologically human). After drawing on a contemporary version of Kant's distinction between a theoretical possibility and a real possibility, I argue that non-humanB persons, like genetically altered humanB beings, robots, computers, or aliens, are a theoretical possibility but we do not know if they are a real possibility. Finally, I describe an ethic of self-limitation for the posthuman age.
Image: http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2013/12/16/personhood-for-animals-only
-point/CC3Fw4k0JWeCYrIKWBptxM/story.html
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