released 10/19/2018
In a provocative and philosophically rich lecture given in April in Washington, philosopher Michael Hanby argued that the meaning of the human is being radically redefined in our modern “biotechnocracy.” “Technology,” Hanby insisted, “is first a way of apprehending the world before it is a collection of instruments.” Current debates about (among other things) marriage and gender can only be adequately understood in light of the ways in which technology has transformed our way of life and our most basic notions of being, nature, reason, and truth. This Friday Feature presents Hanby’s lecture in full. It is preceded by an announcement about our latest audio Anthology, “Rediscovering the Organism: Science and Its Contexts,” which includes interviews with Hanby, physicist/theologian John Polkinghorne, science historian Steven Shapin, and philosopher Mary Midgley.
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