Should You Choose to Live Forever

ISBN-13: 9780367615390 / Twarda / 2023 / 170 str.

John Martin Fischer

Opis

This ancient question is as topical as ever. But are we wise to wish for immortality? What would it mean for each of us as individuals, for society, and for the planet?

Spis treści

INITIAL PROPOSAL: Table of Contents Introduction – 2.5K words Section I: Opening Statements 1. Opening Statement from Stephen Cave (20K words) 2. Opening Statement from John Martin Fisher (20K words) 3. Summary (1K words) Section II: Replies to Opening Statements 4. Fischer’s reply to Cave (7.5K words) 5. Cave’s reply to Fischer (7.5K words) 6. Summary (0.5 words) Section III: Replies to the Replies 7. Cave’s reply to Fischer’s initial reply (4K words) 8. Fischer’s reply to Cave’s initial reply (4K words) 9. Summary (0.5 words) Section IV: Additional Reading & Glossary 10. Annotated Reading Lists (0.5 words) 11. Glossary (1.5K words)

O autorze

Stephen Cave is the Director of the Institute for Technology and Humanity at the University of Cambridge, UK. His other books include Immortality (Crown, 2012), AI Narratives (with Sarah Dillon and Kanta Dihal, Oxford UP, 2020), and Imagining AI (with Kanta Dihal, Oxford UP, 2023). He also advises governments around the world on the ethics of technology and has served as a British diplomat.

John Martin Fischer is a Distinguished Professor in Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, and in 2017 he was appointed a University Professor in the University of California, one of twenty-two in the ten-campus system, and the only philosopher. He has published widely on the topics of this debate, including: The Metaphysics of Death (Stanford UP, 1993), Our Stories: Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will (Oxford UP, 2009), and Death, Immortality, and Meaning in Life (Oxford UP, 2019). From 2012 to 2015, he was the Project Leader of The Immortality Project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation.

Lord Martin Rees is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He is the fifteenth Astronomer Royal, appointed in 1995, and was Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University, from 2004 to 2012, and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010.