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Book Synopsis1.Introduction; Jil Muller.- 2. Between Thinking Tools and Extended Minds: Is There Any Room for Natural Organs of Knowledge and Action?; Guido Giglioni.- Part I. Automata in the History of Medicine.- 3. Crossing the Boundaries of Life: Reanimation in Later Medieval Central Europe; Hannah Elmer.- 4. Mechanical and Hydraulic Elements in Sixteenth-century Medicine; Michael Stolberg.- 5. From Contemplation to Composition: Translating Physiology in the Early Modern Period; Thomas A. Murphy.- Part II. Automata in Early Modern Philosophy.- 6. Flesh, Soul, and Steel: Aporias of Materialist Embodiment; Charles Wolfe.- 7. Descartes on Clocks and Automata; Jil Muller.- 8. Automaton in the Chinese Room: Descartes’s Causal Theory of Representation; William Eaton.- 9. The Epistemic Category of Vegetative: A Historical Tracking Indicator for Understanding the Evolution of Western Medicine towards Transhumanism; Sarah Carvallo.- Part III. Spiritual Automata, Intelligence, and Immortality.- 10. A Transhuman Ontology: Spinoza and the Good Change; Emanuele Costa.- 11. Gilles Deleuze's Dream of a Non-human Future of Mankind; Audrey Borowski.- 12. Transhumanist Immortality and the Heideggerian Phenomenology: The Death of Biological Automata and Existing Beings; Jessica Lombard.- Part IV. Automata in Arts, Architecture, and Constructions.- 13. Neither Comic Nor Corpse: Revisiting Braccelli’s Bizarie di Varie Figure; Nicole Howard.- 14. Blurring Boundaries: Eighteenth-century Garden Entertainment and the Role of the Beholders in Jacques Vaucanson’s Automatic Performances; Albert Kozik.- Part V. Transhumanism, Fiction, and Cyborg.- 15. Robots and the History of the Mind-body Problem; Richard Blum.- 16. Transcending the Human: The Disavowal of Anthropocentrism in Posthuman Philosophical Thought; Ramah Khazam.- 17. From Automaton to Cyborg: In Search of the Autonomy of the Living; Emanuele Clarizio.- 18. The Mutant and the Cyborg: Between Science and Fiction, The Posthuman and the Transhuman; Thierry Hoquet.
