Extimate Technology

This book investigates how we should form ourselves in a world saturated with technologies that are profoundly intruding in the very fabric of our selfhood.

Autorentext

Ciano Aydin is Full Professor of Philosophy of Technology, Head of the Department of Philosophy and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS) at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He has published in Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Philosophy and Technology and other journals. See www.cianoaydin.nl for more information about his current research.

Inhalt

Introduction

Part I: What Is the Self?

1. The Essentialist and Dualist Self and Why it Cannot Be Sustained

2. From "Self" to "Self-Formation"

Part II: Is Self-Formation in a Technological World Possible?

3. The Autonomous Self and the Determined Self

4. The Artifactual Mind

5. Brain Imaging Technologies and Critical Self-Formation

6. How Critical Is Critical Self-Formation?

Part III: How Should We Technologically Form Ourselves?

7. Technological Self-Formation as Enhancement

8. The Technological Uncanny as a Permanent Structure of Selfhood

9. Self-Formation as Sublimation and the Question Concerning Technology

10. Technological Sublimation Theory Applied to Three Existential Technologies

Epilogue: Groundwork for a Philosophy of Existential Technology