| Title: | Humans in the Age of Robots |
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| Course Section Number: | PHI-109-01 |
| Department: | Philosophy |
| Description: | Perspectives on Philosophy: Humans in the Age of Robots. This course will consider different conceptions of what it means to be human drawn from the history of philosophy and then pair each conception with a challenge brought about by existing, planned and imagined technology of robots. The guiding question of the course is whether technological advances in robots and algorithms have made it impossible for us to successfully distinguish between human beings and non-human beings as philosophers have long tried to do. Technology poses some challenges to us in the way that we use "the cloud" and our smart phones as extensions of ourselves. It also poses challenges in the ways that AI is learning to think and robots come to resemble humans physically more and more. We will ask what the implications are for human life if this distinction is no longer possible. Students will read selections from Aristotle, Augustine, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Hegel, Arendt and Foucault as well as contemporary theorists of technology and watch films and television shows including Ex Machina and Black Mirror episodes. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 22, 2019 |
| End Date: | December 15, 2019 |
| Meeting Information: |
09/11/2019-12/06/2019 Lecture Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:00AM - 10:50AM, Goodrich Hall, Room 006
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| Faculty: | Trott, Adriel |
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