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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Tables
Introduction: What is Humanity 2.0?
Chapter 1: Humanity Poised Between Biology and Ideology
1. Science’s twin taboos: Race and religion
2. Sociology’s official anti-biologism and unofficial soft racism
3. Alternative biological foundations of the modern welfare state: Germany and Scandinavia
4. Britain’s curious erasure of both biology and sociology: 1907 and all that
5. Methodological interlude: Towards a normative historiography of science
6. Memes vs. genes: Humanity’s perennial need to decouple ideology from biology
7. One step back to Weimar: The New Left’s retrenchment of human embodiment
8. Two steps beyond Darwin: Disembodying humanity in the search for extraterrestrial life
Chapter 2: Defining the Human: The Always Already – or Never to be – Object of the Social Sciences?
1. Does the success of the social sciences depend on our humanity?
2. The precariousness of the human: Why Foucault is (unfortunately) correct
3. Humanity as a bipolar disorder and the legacy of John Duns Scotus
4. Renaturalisation as dehumanisation: The long march back to Scotland
5. Recapitulating humanity’s bipolar disorder: Towards a theory of mendicant modernities
6. The fugitive essence of ‘The Human’: Towards Humanity 2.0?
Chapter 3: A Policy Blueprint for Humanity 2.0: The Converging Technologies Agenda
1. Converging technologies as public relations for science
2. The transatlantic stakes in the CT agenda
3. Defining ‘convergence’ in converging technologies: Ontological levelling
4. CT’s fixation on nanotechnology: The resurgence of the chemical worldview
5. Better living through biology: A hidden theme in the history of social science
6. The transhumanist challenge: Can CT ‘enhance evolution’?
7. Conclusions: The prospects for the CT agenda
Chapter 4: A Theology 2.0 for Humanity 2.0: Thinking Outside the Neo-Darwinian Box
1. Theology at its worst: Philosophy of science as neo-Darwinian apologetics
2. Theology at its best: Intelligent design as heuristic for scientific discovery
3. Theology as a source of empowerment in science education
4. Joseph Priestley’s Theology 2.0: The completion of Newton’s Unitarian project
5. Teilhard de Chardin’s Theology 2.0: The completion of divine creation itself
Chapter 5: Conclusion: In Search of Humanity 2.0’s Moral Horizon – Or, How to Suffer Smart in the 21st Century
1. Divine suffering and its human remediation, aka distributive justice
2. The human simulation of divine legislation, aka justified suffering
3. How might suffering be justified in the days to come?
4. Can either wisdom or prophecy justify suffering in a secular age?
5. The dawn of suffering smart: Recycling evil in the name of good
Bibiliography
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