{"product_id":"digital-souls-a-philosophy-of-online-death-hardcover","title":"Digital Souls: A Philosophy of Online Death - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrick Stokes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial media is full of dead people. Nobody knows precisely how many Facebook profiles belong to dead users but in 2012 the figure was estimated at 30 million. What do we do with all these digital souls? Can we simply delete them, or do they have a right to persist? Philosophers have been almost entirely silent on the topic, despite their perennial focus on death as a unique dimension of human existence. Until now. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on ongoing philosophical debates, \u003ci\u003eDigital Souls\u003c\/i\u003e claims that the digital dead are objects that should be treated with loving regard and that we have a moral duty towards. Modern technology helps them to persist in various ways, while also making them vulnerable to new forms of exploitation and abuse. This provocative book explores a range of questions about the nature of death, identity, grief, the moral status of digital remains and the threat posed by AI-driven avatars of dead people. In the digital era, it seems we must all re-learn how to live with the dead.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Stokes\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior lecturer in Philosophy at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Naked Self: Kierkegaard and\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ePersonal Identity \u003c\/i\u003e(2015)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Kierkegaard's Mirrors: Interest, Self, and Moral Vision \u003c\/i\u003e(2010)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand his current research interests include\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eKierkegaard, personal identity, the philosophy of death, moral progress, the ethics of conspiracy theory and the work of K.E. Lstrup.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 20, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51780835442976,"sku":"9781350139145","price":198.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8a083404a66f4a0a6c9b6124a0cb972b.webp?v=1780538221","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/digital-souls-a-philosophy-of-online-death-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}