Philosophical Issues of Human Cyborgization and the Necessity of Prolegomena on Cyborg Ethics

Name: Philosophical Issues of Human Cyborgization and the Necessity of Prolegomena on Cyborg Ethics
Author: Greguric, Ivana
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Greguric, Ivana

Language: English

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Title: Philosophical Issues of Human Cyborgization and the Necessity of Prolegomena on Cyborg Ethics
Author: Greguric, Ivana
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Publication year: 2021
Condition: New
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 179989231X
ISBN 13: 9781799892311
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Ivana Greguric is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb anda research associate at the Scientific Center of Excellence for Integrative Bioethics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, with scientific activities primarily within the Scientific and Research Committee for Bioethics, Technique and Transhumanism. She has worked as a research fellow on the project “Cyborgoethics – intersection or link between bioethics and technoethics” and a researcher at the philosophical library “Demetra”. She was an associate of the scientific project "Application of Systematic Theory in General Techniques Analysis" (project leader: Prof. Igor Čatić). Since 2018 she has been employed as a docent at the Department of Philosophy and Department of Communication of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb where she teaches: Philosophy of Cyberculture, Communication – media theories, Cyborgoethics and Robothoetics, Philosophy of Media, Bioethics, Philosophy of Communication and Philosophy of the 19th Century. She is an author of over ten scientific papers, a chapter in the book Posthuman cultures (Oxford, 2013), a chapter in the book Guide to Deep Learning Basics (Springer 2020), a co-author of a chapter in the book Chuck Klosterman and Philosophy (Open Court, 2012) and a co-editor of the book New wave and philosophy (Jesenski Turk, 2012). She was a visiting researcher at the Brocher Foundation (2015), center for bioethical research in Geneva, which awarded her with a scholarship for her research on ''Ethical and scientific issues of creating enhanced ‘human’ beings''. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Philosophical Research, Synthesis philosophica and In medias res. She has participated in more than twenty international scientific conferences held in Croatia and abroad (Oxford, Lisbon, Liverpool) and has held numerous guest lectures (Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences, European Home, International Congress of the Association of Nurses and Technicians of Croatia). She attended the European Parliament conference on Robot Responsibility Conference, where she proposed adopting a resolution on the limits of improving human beings. In 2018 her book Cybernetic beings in the age of scientific humanism: Prolegomena for cyborgoethics has been published in Croatia. In 2021 she is co-authoring a book The Philosophy of upcoming future: Essays on non-human with Nenad Vertovšek. Areas of her scientific interest are: philosophical anthropology, philosophy of technology, cyberculture, bioethics, posthumanism and artificial intelligence.

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