Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with Christine Rosen.
Defending the Human in a Technological World
What does it mean to be human in a world that promises near-endless opportunities for virtual, disembodied experience? What crucial human skills and habits of mind are deteriorating or disappearing now that we spend most of our time staring at screens? If we can design machines that mimic human intelligence, what does that portend for the humanities and for human creativity? Technology promises us many things, but we must also reckon with what is lost when we choose mediated, rather than embodied, experiences, and when we outsource to machines the fundamental challenges that were once the province of human reason, human emotion, and human conscience.
About the speaker:
Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on American history, society and culture, technology and culture, and feminism. Concurrently she is a columnist for Commentary magazine and one of the cohosts of The Commentary Magazine Podcast. She is also a fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a senior editor in an advisory position at the New Atlantis.
About the Illinois Forum on a Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series:
Housed in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age supports study and research into the possibilities for human flourishing in contemporary society. The activities of the Forum combine philosophical reflection on human nature and the human good with practical reflection on the possibilities for living well, and for designing tools that contribute to human flourishing, in a world shaped by digital technology. Learn more: https://philosophy.illinois.edu/academics/illinois-forum-human-flourishing-digital-age