Adam Buben
Biographic Data
| ID | 1490237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Buben |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Buben |
| SIGNATURE | BUBEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9581-4546 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond grief
New technologies rarely announce in advance all the ways they threaten to upend established values and practices, and we must remain vigilant before and after their emergence if we do not want new problems to go unnoticed and unresolved for too long. This paper calls attention to ethical and regulatory worries about several already existing and possible future applications of the emerging technology referred to as “Interactive Personality Constru…
Digital Replacement of the Dead
Digital “resurrection” of the dead has become more of a reality in the last few years due to the rapid advancement of machine learning and large language models. So-called “interactive personality constructs of the dead” (IPCDs) are AI either trained on decedents’ “digital remains” (e.g. emails, texts, and social media content) after the fact or intentionally developed in cooperation with future decedents pre-mortem to simulate the way they would…
Response to Pacaol’s Comments on my “Digital Replacement of the Dead
Philosophy of Knowledge and Cognition
Do immortals need an eject button? Sartre and the importance of always having an exit
Sartre directly addresses some of the core issues involved in the contemporary debate about the desirability of immortality. He thinks mortality can never be the source of life's meaning because death cuts us off before meaning can be determined, and because any meaning that survives is no longer our own. These claims already put Sartre at odds with immortality nay‐sayers who believe the limitations provided by our chronological finitude are esse…
Existentialism and the Desirability of Immortality
The Dark Side of Desire
Nietzsche has become embroiled in two interesting twenty‐first century debates about advancing technology and its impact on human life, especially its meaning/value. The first focuses on Nietzsche himself and is concerned with the extent to which his views align with those of transhumanism. The second involves the not so blatantly Nietzsche‐centric question of whether or not immortality, or radical life‐extension, is desirable. Given that the des…
Unamuno on making oneself indispensable and having the strength to long for immortality
Unamuno believes that longing for immortality is what motivates nearly all of human behavior. Unfortunately, in a world in which many people despair of ever achieving true personal immortality, we increasingly turn to what he calls mere “shadows of immortality” for comforting ideas about how our names, energy, or basic material substance will carry on in our absence. Unamuno advocates fighting against such despair, staying out of the shadows, and…
Neither Irrationalist Nor Apologist
One of the most hotly contested debates in Kierkegaard studies concerns his sense of the relationship between faith and reason. Often caricatured as a proponent of irrational fideism, scholarship in recent decades has tried to present a more nuanced account of Kierkegaard's position. Two likely interpretive options have emerged: supra-rationalism and anti-rationalism. On the former view, Kierkegaard believes that while the achievement of faith is…
Patrick Sheil
Neither Irrationalist Nor Apologist
One of the most hotly contested debates in Kierkegaard studies concerns his sense of the relationship between faith and reason. Often caricatured as a proponent of irrational fideism, scholarship in recent decades has tried to present a more nuanced account of Kierkegaard's position. Two likely interpretive options have emerged: supra-rationalism and anti-rationalism. On the former view, Kierkegaard believes that while the achievement of faith is…
Patrick Sheil
Neither Irrationalist Nor Apologist
One of the most hotly contested debates in Kierkegaard studies concerns his sense of the relationship between faith and reason. Often caricatured as a proponent of irrational fideism, scholarship in recent decades has tried to present a more nuanced account of Kierkegaard's position. Two likely interpretive options have emerged: supra-rationalism and anti-rationalism. On the former view, Kierkegaard believes that while the achievement of faith is…
The Dark Side of Desire
Nietzsche has become embroiled in two interesting twenty‐first century debates about advancing technology and its impact on human life, especially its meaning/value. The first focuses on Nietzsche himself and is concerned with the extent to which his views align with those of transhumanism. The second involves the not so blatantly Nietzsche‐centric question of whether or not immortality, or radical life‐extension, is desirable. Given that the des…
Unamuno on making oneself indispensable and having the strength to long for immortality
Unamuno believes that longing for immortality is what motivates nearly all of human behavior. Unfortunately, in a world in which many people despair of ever achieving true personal immortality, we increasingly turn to what he calls mere “shadows of immortality” for comforting ideas about how our names, energy, or basic material substance will carry on in our absence. Unamuno advocates fighting against such despair, staying out of the shadows, and…
Do immortals need an eject button? Sartre and the importance of always having an exit
Sartre directly addresses some of the core issues involved in the contemporary debate about the desirability of immortality. He thinks mortality can never be the source of life's meaning because death cuts us off before meaning can be determined, and because any meaning that survives is no longer our own. These claims already put Sartre at odds with immortality nay‐sayers who believe the limitations provided by our chronological finitude are esse…
Existentialism and the Desirability of Immortality
Beyond grief
New technologies rarely announce in advance all the ways they threaten to upend established values and practices, and we must remain vigilant before and after their emergence if we do not want new problems to go unnoticed and unresolved for too long. This paper calls attention to ethical and regulatory worries about several already existing and possible future applications of the emerging technology referred to as “Interactive Personality Constru…
Digital Replacement of the Dead
Digital “resurrection” of the dead has become more of a reality in the last few years due to the rapid advancement of machine learning and large language models. So-called “interactive personality constructs of the dead” (IPCDs) are AI either trained on decedents’ “digital remains” (e.g. emails, texts, and social media content) after the fact or intentionally developed in cooperation with future decedents pre-mortem to simulate the way they would…
Response to Pacaol’s Comments on my “Digital Replacement of the Dead
Philosophy of Knowledge and Cognition
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (3 works) · Immortality (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy of mind (3 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (3 works) · Political science (3 works)