Hava Tirosh-Samuelson Regents’ Professor, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, Director of Jewish Studies, and Professor of History, Arizona State University Professor Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (Ph.D. Hebrew University, 1978) is Regents’ Professor, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, Director of Jewish Studies, and Professor of History at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. Her research focuses on Jewish intellectual history, religion and science, and religious environmentalism. In addition to over 50 essays, she is the author of the award-winning book, Between Worlds: The Life and Work of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon (1991) and Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge and Well-Being in Premodern Judaism (2003). She is the editor of eight volumes, including, The Legacy of Hans Jonas: Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life (2008); Building Better Humans? Refocusing the Debate on Transhumanism (2011) and Perfecting Human Futures: Transhuman Visions and Technological Imaginations (2016). She is also the editor-in-chief of the LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY JEWISH PHILOSOPEHRS (2013-2018), a series of 20 books featuring outstanding Jewish thinkers today. Tirosh-Samuelson’s work on religion science and technology has been supported by grants: 1) “Facing the Challenges of Transhumanism: Religion, Science, and Technology” (2006-2010); 2) “The Transhumanist Imagination: Innovation, Secularization and Eschatology” (2012-14); and “Beyond Secularization: Piloting New Approaches for the Study of Religion, Science, and Technology in Public Life” (2016-2018). These grants have funded symposia, public lectures, faculty seminars, and international conferences. Tirosh-Samuelson is a member of the International Society of Science and Religion (ISSR), she serves on the academic board of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, and she manages the international society, Judaism, Science and Medicine Group (JSMG). Participant In: Transhumanist Predictions and the Human Predicament 2:30pm-4:30pm, Saturday, March 10th, 2018 Past Event Watch the video » The rapid development of technology in the modern era has inspired a movement known as transhumanism. Envisioned is a near future in which human bodies and minds will be transformed and enhanced through genomics, pharmaceuticals, nanotechnology, robotics, artificial intelligence, and any number of prosthetic devices inside and outside our bodies. Advocates also hold out the… read more »
Transhumanist Predictions and the Human Predicament 2:30pm-4:30pm, Saturday, March 10th, 2018 Past Event Watch the video » The rapid development of technology in the modern era has inspired a movement known as transhumanism. Envisioned is a near future in which human bodies and minds will be transformed and enhanced through genomics, pharmaceuticals, nanotechnology, robotics, artificial intelligence, and any number of prosthetic devices inside and outside our bodies. Advocates also hold out the… read more »