Thesis
The intellectual discovery of human extinction
- Alternative title:
- Existential risk and the entrance of the future perfect into science
- Abstract:
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Of late, risks of human extinction (or so-called 'existential risks') have become the target of an emerging field of scientifically serious study. We are now increasingly conversant with increasingly distal and severe futurities. Such a dynamic, of incremental entanglement with futurity, typifies the growing edge of modernity. Yet this dynamic is not itself without a history. Or, we have been being swept up in the future for quite some time now. This thesis attempts to supply the history o...
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Funding
Arts & Humanities Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Deposit date:
- 2019-06-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Moynihan, T
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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