Calamity Theory Three Critiques of Existential Risk

• 1. autor: Woods, Derek (auth)
• Kolejni autorzy: Schuster, Joshua (auth)
• Format: Elektroniczne Rozdział
• Język: angielski
• Wydane: University of Minnesota Press 2021
• Hasła przedmiotowe: History of Western philosophy; History of philosophy, philosophical traditions
• Dostęp online: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse? A new philosophical field has emerged. "Existential risk" studies any real or hypothetical human extinction event in the near or distant future. This movement examines catastrophes ranging from runaway global warming to nuclear war...