Creative Creatures

Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction: Technological and Moral Creatures or Creators? Willem B. Drees, University of Leiden, the Netherlands; PART I: TECHNOLOGY'S IMPACT ON OUR WORLDVIEW; 2. ICT and the Character of Finitude Rene P.H. Munnik, University of Twente, the Netherlands; 3. Technology and the Changing Notion of Nature Zbigniew Liana, The Pontifical Academy of Theology, Cracow, Poland. 4. Co-creator or co-creator: The Problem with Artificial Intelligence Noreen Herzfeld, St. John's University, Collegeville, MN, USA; 5. From Thou to IT: Information Technology from the Perspective of the Language Philosophy of Rosenzweig and Rosenstock-Huessy Otto Kroesen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands; 6. Being Cyborgs: On Creating Humanity in a Created World of Technology Taede Smedes, University of Leiden, the Netherlands; PART II: MORALITY, NATURE, AND CULTURE; 7. The Perennial Debate about Human Goodness: The Primate Evidence Frans B.M. de Waal, Emory University, Atlanta, USA; 8. Theological Reflections on the Moral Nature of Nature Nancey Murphy, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA, USA; 9. Is it Suitable to Translate Christian Anthropological Topics into Genetic and Cognitive Categories? The Case of Original Sin Lluis Oviedo, Pontifical Ateneum Antonianum, Rome, Italy; PART III: MORALITY IN A TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY; 10. Ethical Issues of Al and Biotechnology Margaret A. Boden, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; 11. Co-creation or Hubris? Responses to Biotechnology in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam Ulf Gorman, Lund University, Sweden; 12. The Human being a Co-Creator? Theological Reflections on Reproductive Cloning of Human Individuals Jan-Olav Henriksen, The Norwegian Lutheran School of Theology, Oslo, Norway; 13. When Astronomers and Environmentalists Clash Over a Sky Island Christopher J. Corbally, SJ, The Vatican Observatory, Rome, Italy, and University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; 14. The Crisis of Ideologies and the Need for a New Anthropology: Values Education in a Technological and Pragmatic Age Angela Roothaan, The Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Index.