{"id":79,"date":"2011-09-07T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=79"},"modified":"2019-04-29T10:26:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T10:26:37","slug":"seminar-dr-david-roden-5-october-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Seminar: Dr David Roden, 5 October 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Dr David Roden<br \/>\nPosthumanism and The Disconnection Thesis<br \/>\n5 October 2011<\/h4>\n<p>The computer scientist Virnor Vinge\u2019s idea of a technologically led intelligence explosion (Vinge 1993) is philosophically important because it requires us to consider the prospect of a posthuman condition succeeding the human one. What is the \u2018humanity\u2019 to which the posthuman is \u2018post\u2019? Does the possibility of a posthumanity presuppose that there is a \u2018human essence\u2019, or is there some other way of conceiving the human-posthuman difference?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr David Roden Posthumanism and The Disconnection Thesis 5 October 2011 The computer scientist Virnor Vinge\u2019s idea of a technologically led intelligence explosion (Vinge 1993) is philosophically important because it requires us to consider the prospect of a posthuman condition succeeding the human one. What is the \u2018humanity\u2019 to which the posthuman is \u2018post\u2019? Does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,34],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events-publications","category-research-seminars","tag-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}