{"id":526,"date":"2013-03-06T09:33:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T22:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/?p=526"},"modified":"2013-03-06T09:33:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T22:33:29","slug":"the-transhumanist-reader-table-of-contents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/03\/06\/the-transhumanist-reader-table-of-contents\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Transhumanist Reader<\/i> &#8211; Table of contents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, here&#8217;s the full table of contents for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1118334310\/ref=s9_simh_bw_p14_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-4&amp;pf_rd_r=0BFD6DE2EC274CAB811C&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1401488422&amp;pf_rd_i=283155\"><em>The Transhumanist Reader<\/em><\/a>. You couldn&#8217;t get a lot more comprehensive in respect to major authors in the field or in respect to\u00a0 relevant topics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part I Roots and Core Themes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 The Philosophy of Transhumanism, <em>Max More<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2 Aesthetics: Bringing the Arts &amp; Design into the Discussion of Transhumanism, <em>Natasha Vita-More<\/em><\/p>\n<p>3 Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up, <em>Nick Bostrom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>4 Transhumanist Declaration (2012), <em>Various<\/em><\/p>\n<p>5 Morphological Freedom \u2013 Why We Not Just Want It, but Need It, <em>Anders Sandberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part II Human Enhancement: The Somatic Sphere<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>6 Welcome to the Future of Medicine, <em>Robert A. Freitas Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>7 Life Expansion Media, <em>Natasha Vita-More<\/em><\/p>\n<p>8 The Hybronaut Affair: A M\u00e9nage of Art, Technology, and Science, <em>Laura Beloff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>9 Transavatars, <em>William Sims Bainbridge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>10 Alternative Biologies, <em>Rachel Armstrong<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part III Human Enhancement: The Cognitive Sphere<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>11 Re-Inventing Ourselves: The Plasticity of Embodiment, Sensing, and Mind, <em>Andy Clark<\/em><\/p>\n<p>12 Artificial General Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, <em>Ben Goertzel<\/em><\/p>\n<p>13 Intelligent Information Filters and Enhanced Reality, <em>Alexander \u201cSasha\u201d Chislenko<\/em><\/p>\n<p>14 Uploading to Substrate-Independent Minds, <em>Randal A. Koene<\/em><\/p>\n<p>15 Uploading, <em>Ralph C. Merkle<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part IV Core Technologies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>16 Why Freud Was the First Good AI Theorist, <em>Marvin Minsky<\/em><\/p>\n<p>17 Pigs in Cyberspace, <em>Hans Moravec<\/em><\/p>\n<p>18 Nanocomputers, <em>J. Storrs Hall<\/em><\/p>\n<p>19 Immortalist Fictions and Strategies, <em>Michael R. Rose<\/em><\/p>\n<p>20 Dialogue between Ray Kurzweil and Eric Drexler<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part V Engines of Life: Identity and Beyond Death<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>21 The Curate\u2019s Egg of Anti-Anti-Aging Bioethics, <em>Aubrey de Grey<\/em><\/p>\n<p>22 Medical Time Travel, <em>Brian Wowk<\/em><\/p>\n<p>23 Transhumanism and Personal Identity, <em>James Hughes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>24 Transcendent Engineering, <em>Giulio Prisco<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part VI Enhanced Decision-Making<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>25 Idea Futures: Encouraging an Honest Consensus, <em>Robin Hanson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>26 The Proactionary Principle: Optimizing Technological Outcomes, <em>Max More<\/em><\/p>\n<p>27 The Open Society and Its Media, <em>Mark S. Miller, with E. Dean Tribble, Ravi Pandya, and Marc Stiegler<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part VII Biopolitics and Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>28 Performance Enhancement and Legal Theory: An Interview with Professor Michael H. Shapiro<\/p>\n<p>29 Justifying Human Enhancement: The Accumulation of Biocultural Capital, <em>Andy Miah<\/em><\/p>\n<p>30 The Battle for the Future, <em>Gregory Stock<\/em><\/p>\n<p>31 Mind is Deeper Than Matter: Transgenderism, Transhumanism, and the Freedom of Form, <em>Martine Rothblatt<\/em><\/p>\n<p>32 For Enhancing People, <em>Ronald Bailey<\/em><\/p>\n<p>33 Is Enhancement Worthy of Being a Right?, <em>Patrick D. Hopkins<\/em><\/p>\n<p>34 Freedom by Design: Transhumanist Values and Cognitive Liberty, <em>Wrye Sententia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part VIII Future Trajectories: Singularity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>35 Technological Singularity, <em>Vernor Vinge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>36 An Overview of Models of Technological Singularity, <em>Anders Sandberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>37 A Critical Discussion of Vinge\u2019s Singularity Concept, <em>David Brin, Damien Broderick, Nick Bostrom, Alexander \u201cSasha\u201d Chislenko, Robin Hanson, Max More, Michael Nielsen, and Anders Sandberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part IX The World\u2019s Most Dangerous Idea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>38 The Great Transition: Ideas and Anxieties, <em>Russell Blackford<\/em><\/p>\n<p>39 Trans and Post, <em>Damien Broderick<\/em><\/p>\n<p>40 Back to Nature II: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century, <em>Roy Ascott<\/em><\/p>\n<p>41 A Letter to Mother Nature, <em>Max More<\/em><\/p>\n<p>42 Progress and Relinquishment, <em>Ray Kurzweil<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, here&#8217;s the full table of contents for The Transhumanist Reader. You couldn&#8217;t get a lot more comprehensive in respect to major authors in the field or in respect to\u00a0 relevant topics. Part I Roots and Core Themes 1 The Philosophy of Transhumanism, Max More 2 Aesthetics: Bringing the Arts &amp; Design into the Discussion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,11],"tags":[144,145,212,146],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-2","category-philosophy","tag-max-more","tag-natasha-vita-more","tag-the-transhumanist-reader","tag-transhumanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}