Philosophy in a Technological World

Gods and Titans

James Tartaglia (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-07010-3 (ISBN)

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Philosophy has come to seem like a specialist interest with little or no influence on our lives. On the contrary, argues James Tartaglia, it was the philosophy of materialism which taught us to turn from the gods to seek practical assistance from the titans, thereby reversing the moral of an ancient Greek myth to inspire the building of today’s technological world. As the largely unreflected belief-system it has now become, materialism continues to steer the direction of technological development, while making us think this direction is inevitable. By drawing on neglected idealist traditions of philosophy, Tartaglia argues for a new way of looking at reality which asserts our freedom to choose, reaffirms and builds upon our ordinary, everyday understanding, and motivates us to convert technological innovation into a process driven by public rationality and consent. With discussions ranging from consciousness, determinism and personal identity, to post-truth culture, ego-death and video games, this clear and accessible book will be of wide interest.

James Tartaglia is Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Keele University, UK. He is the author of Philosophy in a Meaningless Life (Bloomsbury 2016).

Preface
Introduction: Disturbed by the Thought of Philosophy
1. A World Without Philosophy
2. The Materialist Philosophy
3. When Philosophy Lost its Mind
4. A New Idealism
5. Technoparalysis
6. Freedom
7. Soul
8. Truth
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.10.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-350-07010-6 / 1350070106
ISBN-13	978-1-350-07010-3 / 9781350070103
Zustand	Neuware