Program in Philosophy, Science and Society in the Contemporary World

1. Knowledge and science: current problems. Transhumanism

• Introduction to the philosophy of technology
• The philosophy of technology: definition, methodology and trends
• Transhumanism: A diverse Movement
• Critical Elements of Transhumanism
• Life as an absolute value
• Mechanism and technological determinism
• Eugenics
• An ultra-secularist faith
• Towards a new approach
• The techno-scientific imperative and human technologies
• Integral Transhumanism

2. Social and political thought

• Methodological hypotheses
• General categories of the social and the political
  • Socio-political reality and the science of the social and the political
  • Social and Political Metaphysics (Protology): The One and the Multiple
  • Holism and individualism, organicism and mechanism
  • Some basic structures of political unity: representation
• General categories of the legal
  • Elements of the Law (Nómos) and Types of Legal Thinking
  • A fundamental paradox of the interconnection between law and politics
• General categories of the historical as a place (public square) of the social and the political
  • Experiences of time and categories of a Historical
  • The philosophy of history and the idea of progress
• Historical modalities of the formation of political unity

3. Technology, economy and society

• Vulnerability: A radical experience of the human condition
• Transcending vulnerability: Transhumanism
• Descending into Common Vulnerability: Posthumanism
• Relationality and environmental and organizational responsability