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      • Induction
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      • Certainty
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      • Conditional
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      • Criteria
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    • ☯️Conceptual Distinctions
      • Absolute/Relative
      • a priori/a posteriori
      • Analytic/Synthetic
      • de re/de dicto
      • Defeasible/Indefeasible
      • Cause/Reason
      • Tetralemma (catuṣkoṭi)
      • Categorical/Modal
      • Sense/Reference
      • Conditional/Biconditional
      • Entailment/Implication
      • Endurantism/Perdurantism
      • Essential/Accidental
      • Knowledge by acquaintance/Knowledge by description
      • Internalism/Externalism
      • Belief/Knowledge
      • Necessary/Contingent
      • Necessary/Sufficient
      • Being/Nothingness
      • Objective/Subjective
      • Syntax/Semantics
      • Type/Token
    • ⚗️Thought Experiments
      • Ship of Theseus
      • The Chinese Room
      • Butterfly Dream
      • Thompson's Violinist
    • 💫Fallacies
      • Confirmation bias
      • Circularity
      • Fundamental attribution error
    • ⚖️Philosophical Frameworks
      • Principle of Charity
      • Golden Rule
  • 📜Lore
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      • Ancient
        • Aristotle
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    • 📚Traditions
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      • Self-reflection
      • Philosophical Health
      • Journaling
      • Skills Development
        • Inner Development Goals
        • Metacognition
        • Integrity and Authenticity
        • Presence
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        • Communication
    • 🫂Relational Applications
      • Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
      • Interfaith dialogue
      • Existential Coaching
      • Philosophical Counselling
      • Philosophical Enquiry (PhiE)
      • Reason-based decision making
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      • Education
      • Healthcare
      • Public Policy
      • Gender
      • Religion
  • About
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    • Our Contributors
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Posthumanism

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Posthumanism is a broad intellectual movement that critically questions traditional notions of the human and humanity's place in the world. It is a response to the perceived limitations of humanism and aims to reconceptualize the human in light of technological advancements, scientific insights, and ethical imperatives.

What are the branches within posthumanism?

There are several overlapping fields and perspectives within posthumanism.

Philosophical posthumanism

This branch critically examines and , including the idea of a unified, autonomous human subject. It questions anthropocentrism and traditional dualisms like human/animal, nature/culture, and mind/body.

Cultural posthumanism

Exploring posthuman themes in various cultural forms such as literature, art, and cinema, this perspective often imagines alternative modes of embodiment and consciousness beyond the human.

Antihumanism

This branch rejects traditional humanist ideals as historically contingent and argues they have been used to justify exclusion and domination over non-human forms of existence.

Transhumanism

While distinct from posthumanism, transhumanism advocates the enhancement of human capacities and transcending biological limitations usually through the use of technology.

Post-anthropocentrism

Although posthumanism encompasses diverse perspectives, there are common threads; namely critiquing humanism and anthropocentrism, focusing on the intersection of the human condition, technology and the environment, as well as an openness to alternative forms of embodiment and subjectivity beyond the human.

How can we apply posthumanist ideas in everyday life?

Here are several ways that ideas from posthumanism can be applied to daily life:

Extending moral concern to non-human beings

Posthumanism encourages us to think outside of traditional human categories and extend moral consideration to non-human animals, the environment, and even artificial intelligences. In everyday life, this could mean making more ethical consumer choices, supporting animal rights, and being a good environmental steward.

Questioning human exceptionalism
Breaking down dualist thinking
Recognising technological influences
Imagining possible futures

This branch that privileges the human above other forms of life and matter. It extends moral considerability and agency beyond .

Posthumanism rejects the idea that humans are separate from and superior to the rest of nature. Day-to-day, we can with the environment and other species, and avoid human-centric thinking.

Posthumanism seeks to like human/animal, nature/culture, mind/body. In lived experience, we can appreciate the blurry boundaries and interconnections between these categories.

Posthumanism explores how humans are shaped by our technologies. In using smartphones, social media, etc., we can be mindful of .

Posthumanism, especially in its critical forms, uses speculative imagination to envision more . Through literature, art, and everyday creativity, we can participate in this transformative envisioning.

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challenges the assumptions of humanism
critiques the hierarchical mindset
the human
recognize our interdependence
dismantle traditional binaries
how these tools are changing us
just, sustainable posthuman futures