In Defence of the Human Being: Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology with Thomas Fuchs (Oxford UP, 2021)
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In Defence of the Human Being: Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology with Thomas Fuchs (Oxford UP, 2021)

C1AdvancedOctober 18, 202644 min
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At a time when artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and digital technologies increasingly shape our understanding of what it means to be human, Fuchs argues that we need to recover a richer conception of the human person. Rather than viewing ourselves as information-processing systems or collections of neural mechanisms, he develops a philosophical vision centred on embodiment, relationality, and lived experience. The result is a compelling defence of human agency, dignity, and freedom against contemporary forms of reductionism and transhumanism. Today we'll be discussing In Defence of the Human Being: Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology (Oxford UP, 2021). We...

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Welcome to the New Books Network. Hello and welcome. I'm Anya Daly from the University of Tasmania and today I have the pleasure of speaking with Thomas Fuchs about his book published by Oxford University Press in defence of the human being. foundational questions of an embodied anthropology. So Professor Fuchs holds the Karl Jaspers Professorship

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for Philosophical Foundations of Psychiatry and is head of the section Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy at Heidelberg University Psychiatric Hospital.

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He is also a coordinator of the Marcilis Project embodiment as a paradigm of an evolutionary cultural anthropology, as well as research unit leader of the Karl Jaspers edition.

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