Émile P Torres
Biographic Data
| ID | 5995849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Émile P Torres |
| GIVEN NAMES | Émile P |
| FAMILY NAME | Torres |
| SIGNATURE | TORRES É P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4420-9159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How Might Health Care Think About the Ethics of Human Extinction
Is there an important ethical difference between a global catastrophe that causes human extinction and one that does not? This commentary on a case introduces 3 approaches-equivalence, further-loss, and pro-extinctionist-in responding to this question. In particular, focus is placed on equivalence and further-loss views' implications for how clinicians, health professions, and health care organizations orient themselves ethically towards managing…
Should Humanity Go Extinct? Exploring the Arguments for Traditional and Silicon Valley Pro-extinctionism
On the extinction of humanity
The TESCREAL bundle
The stated goal of many organizations in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), an imagined system with more intelligence than anything we have ever seen. Without seriously questioning whether such a system can and should be built, researchers are working to create “safe AGI” that is “beneficial for all of humanity.” We argue that, unlike systems with specific applications which can be evalu…
Human Extinction
This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "existential risks." Many leading intellectuals agree that the risk of human extinction this century may be higher than at any point in our 300,000-year history as a species. This book provides insight on the key questions that inform this discussion, including when humans began to worry about their own extincti…
An Apocalypse Without Kingdom
This chapter establishes a number of fundamental ideas that will appear throughout the rest of the book. It introduces the notion of an existential mood and proposes that the subfield of philosophy focused on understanding the ethical and evaluative implications of our extinction should be labeled “Existential Ethics.” It also provides an overview of the five existential moods that have occurred throughout Western history, from the Presocratics o…
Human Extinction
This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "existential risks." Many leading intellectuals agree that the risk of human extinction this century may be higher than at any point in our 300,000-year history as a species. This book provides insight on the key questions that inform this discussion, including when humans began to worry about their own extincti…
An Apocalypse Without Kingdom
This chapter establishes a number of fundamental ideas that will appear throughout the rest of the book. It introduces the notion of an existential mood and proposes that the subfield of philosophy focused on understanding the ethical and evaluative implications of our extinction should be labeled “Existential Ethics.” It also provides an overview of the five existential moods that have occurred throughout Western history, from the Presocratics o…
The TESCREAL bundle
The stated goal of many organizations in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), an imagined system with more intelligence than anything we have ever seen. Without seriously questioning whether such a system can and should be built, researchers are working to create “safe AGI” that is “beneficial for all of humanity.” We argue that, unlike systems with specific applications which can be evalu…
How Might Health Care Think About the Ethics of Human Extinction
Is there an important ethical difference between a global catastrophe that causes human extinction and one that does not? This commentary on a case introduces 3 approaches-equivalence, further-loss, and pro-extinctionist-in responding to this question. In particular, focus is placed on equivalence and further-loss views' implications for how clinicians, health professions, and health care organizations orient themselves ethically towards managing…
Should Humanity Go Extinct? Exploring the Arguments for Traditional and Silicon Valley Pro-extinctionism
On the extinction of humanity
Environmental ethics (3 works) · Paleontology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics (3 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · Extinction (optical mineralogy (2 works) · Extinction (optical mineralogy) (2 works) · Geology (2 works) · Humanity (2 works)