CALL FOR PAPERS 

TRANSHUMANISM AND JUSTICE, ed. Dominic Garcia, PhD

ABOUT THE BOOK 

Although we read about justice, rights, property, politics and its relation to transhumanism/posthumanism, the need to consider the philosophy of punishment and the prison in transhumanistic/posthumanist times has not yet been fully explored.

This book seeks to shed some light on the validity of having a retributive justice system at a time when the world is moving towards a new understanding of the human or, rather, the posthuman. The aim will be to fill the gaps in a system of retributive justice that is perhaps unsuitable for a changing mentality; a mentality moving away from the idea of punishment as a form of vengeance against those who created the victim. This book will strongly argue against the mentality of reprisal, namely a kind of mentality that derives satisfaction from either knowing that the offender is now suffering as a result of his/her unlawful deeds or from egregiously witnessing (and even, perhaps, relishing) the offender’s suffering as a form of spectacle.

This book will advocate (and perhaps provoke the reader to formulate) an understanding on the reality of this topic, to fill one more gap, between the notion of transhumanism/posthumanism and the realities of the traditional prison.

SUBJECTS

Suitable topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

– philosophy of justice

– ethics

– politics within the precincts of transhumanism/posthumanism

SUBMISSIONS AND DEADLINES

Submit your full paper by 10th of March 2025 to Dr. Dominic Garcia at dga@risemalta.org.mt. For any questions about the book and its publication, please contact the editor or the publisher (publishing@trivent-publishing.eu).

PUBLICATION

The volume will be published in the Transhumanism and Philosophy book series, ed. Prof. David Edward Rose.