Humanism in the Digital Age: syllabus
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Victor Gomez Pin, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
I Historical Perspective- The concepts of Logos and Techné in the Greek Thought
- Plato's Cave Aristotelian concept of substance: the superficial is not substantial
- Humanism and technology in Renaissance
- Cartesian point of view: never artefacts can reach the status of human beings
- Machines and society in XIXth century
- The technological Revolution in the XXth century
- Turing's Test
- The Internet phenomena
II Conceptual Debate - Animals and Humans
- The question of Human Nature
- Animal Condition and Culture
- The attempts for extending the notion of Culture to animals
- The attempt to extend the notion of Language to animals and machines
- The dramatic difference between Human Language, animal’s codes and artificial language
- The essence of animal perception
- Link between animal condition and mechanical structures
- May we actually talk about artificial neurones?
- Turing's test to determine if there is actually artificial Intelligence
- Robots and social worlds: “The future of the care for the elderly?”
- Toward a human perception mainly mediated by digital technology
- The fate of human beings
