Are Cyborgs Persons?
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Argues for an evolutionary continuity between human persons and cyborg persons
Aims to reclaim the term âcyborg,â arguing that the metaphorical usage fails to pick up on technologically driven changes in human embodiment
Proposes we create space for the possibility of cyborgean ethicssee more benefits
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This book presents argumentation for an evolutionary continuity between human persons and cyborg persons, based on the thought of Joseph Margolis. Relying on concepts of cultural realism and post-Darwinism, Aleksandra Åukaszewicz Alcaraz redefines the notion of the person, rather than a human, and discusses the various issues of human body enhancement and online implants transforming modes of perception, cognition, and communication. She argues that new kinds of embodiment should not make acquiring the status of the person impossible, and different kinds of embodiments may be accepted socially and culturally. She proposes we consider ethical problems of agency and responsibility, critically approaching vitalist posthuman ethics, and rethinking the metaphysical standing of normativity, to create space for possible cyborgean ethics that may be executed in an Extended Republic of Humanity.