Thanks to Jim Yount for forwarding this:
The
Cultural Classics Series By Ria University Press seeks to reprint and keep in
print books deemed to be cultural classics. Your suggestions for future volumes
are welcomed. The following volumes in the series have already been published:
The Prospect
of Immortality Robert C. W. Ettinger (Charles
Tandy, Ph.D., Editor) ISBN-13: 978-0-9743472-3-3
ISBN-10:
0-9743472-3-X Distributed By Ingram
This 2005 edition
contains an exact replica copy of the complete first edition of Robert
Ettinger's 1964 cultural classic, The Prospect of Immortality.
Additional materials include three original (2005) paper contributions: (1)
"Ettinger's 1964 Thesis: Indefinitely Extended And Enhanced Life
(Immortality) Is Probably Already Here Via Experimental Long-Term Suspended
Animation" (By Charles Tandy); (2) "The State of Cryonics --
2005" (By Jim Yount); and, (3) "A Brief History of Cryonics" (By
R. Michael Perry). (Note: James Bedford began his journey as "the first
cryonaut" on January 12, 1967; as of 2005, he and many others remain in
cryonic hibernation.)
According to
Ettinger, cryonic hibernation (experimental long-term suspended animation) of
humans may provide a "door into summer" unlike any season previously
known. Such patients (individuals and families in cryonic hibernation) may yet
experience the transhuman condition.
Ettinger argues for
his belief in "the possibility of limitless life for our generation."
We should become aware of the incorrect, distorted, and oversimplified ideas
presented in the popular media about cryonics. He believes that the cool logic
and scientific evidence he presents should lead us to forget the horror movies
and urban legends and embrace great expectations.
Man into
Superman
The
Startling Potential of Human Evolution - And How to Be Part of It R. C. W. Ettinger
(Charles Tandy,
Ph.D., Editor) ISBN-13: 978-0-9743472-4-0 ISBN-10: 0-9743472-4-8 Distributed By Ingram
In the 1960s
Ettinger founded the cryonics (cryonic hibernation) movement and authored The
Prospect of Immortality. In the 1970s Ettinger helped initiate the
transhumanist revolution with his Man into Superman. Ettinger
sees "discontinuity in history, with mortality and humanity on one side --
on the other immortality and transhumanity."
Cryonic hibernation
(experimental long-term suspended animation) of humans may provide a "door
into summer" unlike any season previously known. Such patients
(individuals and families in cryonic hibernation) may yet experience the
transhuman condition. Ettinger argues for his belief in "the possibility
of limitless life for our generation." We should become aware of the
incorrect, distorted, and oversimplified ideas presented in the popular media
about cryonics and transhumanism. Ettinger believes that the cool logic and
scientific evidence he presents should lead us to forget the horror movies and
urban legends and embrace great expectations.
This 2005 edition
contains an exact replica copy of the complete first edition of Ettinger's 1972
cultural classic, Man into Superman. Additional (2005) materials
include comments by others -- "Developments In Transhumanism
1972-2005" -- written especially for this 21st century edition.
For example, Dr. Nick Bostrom, a professional philosopher at the University of
Oxford (UK) and a founder of the World Transhumanist Association, provides us
with "A Short History of Transhumanist Thought."
ABOUT THE DEATH AND ANTI-DEATH SERIES
The Death And
Anti-Death Series By Ria University Press discusses issues and controversies
related to death, life extension, and anti-death. A variety of differing points
of view are presented and argued. The following volumes in the series have been
published:
Death And Anti-Death, Volume 1: One Hundred Years After N. F. Fedorov
(1829-1903)
Charles Tandy,
Ph.D., Editor Volume One ISBN-13: 978-0-9743472-0-2 Volume One ISBN-10: 0-9743472-0-5
Distributed By
Ingram
The anthology
discusses a number of interdisciplinary cultural, psychological, metaphysical,
and moral issues and controversies related to death, life extension, and
anti-death. This first volume in the series is in honor of the 19th
century Russian philosopher N. F. Fedorov. (Some of the contributions are about
Fedorov; most are not.) Each of the 17 chapters includes a selected or short
bibliography. The anthology also contains an Introduction and an Index -- as
well as an Abstracts section that serves as an extended table of contents.
A variety of
differing points of view are presented and argued. Most of the 400-plus pages
consists of contributions unique to this volume. Although of interest to the
general reader, the anthology functions well as a textbook for university
courses in culture studies, death-related controversies, ethics, futuristics,
humanities, interdisciplinary studies, life extension issues, metaphysics, and
psychology.
Death And
Anti-Death, Volume 2: Two Hundred Years After Kant, Fifty Years After Turing
Charles Tandy,
Ph.D., Editor Volume Two ISBN-13: 978-0-9743472-2-6
Volume Two
ISBN-10: 0-9743472-2-1 Distributed By Ingram
The following
contributions are original to this volume of the Death And Anti-Death Series By
Ria University Press:
·
Is The Universe Immortal?: Is Cosmic Evolution Never-Ending? (By Charles Tandy)
·
Death As Metaphor (By Lawrence Kimmel)
·
Fantasies Of Immortality (By Werner J. Wagner)
·
What Will The Immortals Eat? (By George M. Young)
·
Cultural Death Understanding (By Anthony S. Dawber)
·
Death And Immortality: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas And Descartes On The Soul
(By Carol
O’Brien)
·
Against The Immortality Of The Soul (By Matt McCormick)
·
Why Death Is (Probably) Bad For You: A Common Sense Approach (By R.C.W. Ettinger)
·
Resurrecting Kant's Postulate Of Immortality (By Scott R. Stroud)
·
Immortality and Finitude: Kant's Moral Argument Reconsidered (By Douglas Burnham)
·
Death, Harm, And The Deprivation Theory (By Jack Li) (Author now
known as Jack Lee)
·
To Be Or Not To Be: The Zombie In The Computer (By R.C.W. Ettinger)
·
The Future Of Human Evolution (By Nick Bostrom)
·
Earthlings Get Off Your Ass Now!: Becoming Person, Learning Community (By Charles Tandy)
Death And Anti-Death, Volume 3: Fifty Years After Einstein, One
Hundred Fifty Years After Kierkegaard
Charles Tandy,
Ph.D., Editor Volume Three ISBN-13: 978-0-9743472-6-4 Volume Three ISBN-10:
0-9743472-6-4
Distributed By
Ingram
All books published
by Ria University Press are distributed by the major book distributor Ingram
and thus are available from most all bookstores. This includes Amazon.com and
BN.com and many others. The ACS bookstore is Amazon.com connected, so this
makes it all very easy. You may search via ISBN:PofI: 097434723X MintoS:
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Volume Three in the
Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria University Press is in honor of Albert
Einstein and Soren Kierkegaard. The chapters do not necessarily mention
Einstein or Kierkegaard. The 17 chapters (by professional philosophers and
other professional scholars) are directed to issues related to death, life
extension, and anti-death. Most of the 400-plus pages consists of scholarship
unique to this volume. Includes index.
The titles of the 17
chapters are as follows:
·
Death And Life Support Systems: A Novel Cultural Exploration by Giorgio
Baruchello
·
Recent Developments In The Ethics, Science, And Politics Of
Life-Extension by Nick Bostrom
·
Life, And The Concept Of A Relativistic Field In Kant by Douglas
Burnham
·
Towards An Ethics Of Ontogeny by Anthony S. Dawber
·
An Easy Death by Mikhail Epstein
·
Fear Of Death And Muddled Thinking – It Is So Much Worse Than You Think
by Robin Hanson
·
The Illusiveness Of Immortality by James J. Hughes
·
A Question Of Endings by Lawrence Kimmel
·
What Is Left After Death? by Jack Lee
·
Life Extension And Pleasure: Can The Prolongation Of (Self)
Consciousness Deliver Greater Pleasure Or Happiness? by Carol O’Brien
·
Raising The Dead Scientifically: Fedorov's Project In A Modern Form by
R. Michael Perry
·
The Emulation Argument: A Modification Of Bostrom's Simulation Argument
by Charles Tandy
·
Managing The Consequences Of Rapid Social Change by Natasha Vita-More
·
Eros And Thanatos – The Establishment Of Individuality by Werner J.
Wagner
·
Universal Superlongevity: Is It Inevitable And Is It Good? by Mark
Walker
·
Return To A Pristine Ecosphere Via Molecular Nanotechnology by Sinclair
T. Wang
·
Fedorov's Legacy: The Cosmist View Of Man's Role In The Universe by
George M. Young
Charles
Tandy, Ph.D.
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