Ralph Stefan Weir
Biographic Data
| ID | 5910929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph Stefan Weir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Weir |
| SIGNATURE | WEIR R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7159-3497 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Personal Identity Dilemma for Transhumanism
Transhumanists claim that futuristic technologies will permit you to live indefinitely as a nonbiological ‘posthuman’ with a radically improved quality of life. Philosophers have pointed out that whether some radically enhanced posthuman is really you depends on perplexing issues about the nature of personal identity. In this paper, I present an especially pressing version of the personal-identity challenge to transhumanism, based on the ideas of…
The Logical Inconsistency of Transhumanism
Transhumanists such as Nick Bostrom and Ray Kurzweil argue that radical human enhancements will allow persons alive today to achieve a kind of technological immortality. The transhumanist movement has gained numerous followers who hope to live indefinitely as bio-enhanced 'posthumans' in a state of perpetual bliss. Transhumanism also has its opponents, however. Objections have been raised both to the possibility and to the desirability of the 'po…
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Review of The Philosophy of Modern Song. By Bob Dylan. (London: Simon and Schuster, 2022. Pp. 352. Price £35.00.)
Christian physicalism and the biblical argument for dualism
This paper examines whether biblical descriptions of the intermediate state imply dualism of the sort that rules out physicalism. Certain passages in the Bible seem to describe persons or souls existing without their bodies in an intermediate state between death and resurrection. For this reason, these passages appear to imply a form of dualism. Some Christian physicalists have countered that the passages in question are in fact compatible with p…
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Christian physicalism and the biblical argument for dualism
This paper examines whether biblical descriptions of the intermediate state imply dualism of the sort that rules out physicalism. Certain passages in the Bible seem to describe persons or souls existing without their bodies in an intermediate state between death and resurrection. For this reason, these passages appear to imply a form of dualism. Some Christian physicalists have countered that the passages in question are in fact compatible with p…
The Logical Inconsistency of Transhumanism
Transhumanists such as Nick Bostrom and Ray Kurzweil argue that radical human enhancements will allow persons alive today to achieve a kind of technological immortality. The transhumanist movement has gained numerous followers who hope to live indefinitely as bio-enhanced 'posthumans' in a state of perpetual bliss. Transhumanism also has its opponents, however. Objections have been raised both to the possibility and to the desirability of the 'po…
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Review of The Philosophy of Modern Song. By Bob Dylan. (London: Simon and Schuster, 2022. Pp. 352. Price £35.00.)
The Personal Identity Dilemma for Transhumanism
Transhumanists claim that futuristic technologies will permit you to live indefinitely as a nonbiological ‘posthuman’ with a radically improved quality of life. Philosophers have pointed out that whether some radically enhanced posthuman is really you depends on perplexing issues about the nature of personal identity. In this paper, I present an especially pressing version of the personal-identity challenge to transhumanism, based on the ideas of…
Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (2 works) · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (2 works) · Transhumanism (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Cartography (1 work)