Robert Doede, Ph.d.
Humanities & Social Sciences
Trinity Western University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Doede has published in a number of philosophy journals, most recently in the British journal Appraisal, where his “Transhumanism, Technology, and the Future: Posthumanity Emerging or Sub-humanity Descending?” was published in the March 2009 edition (Vol. 7, No. 3, : pp. 39-54). Recently Dr. Doede has also been interviewed on CBC Radio One and on Lorna Dueck's Listen Up TV regarding technology and education. Dr. Doede has also been invited by the University of Toronto journal Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society, to write an article on Polanyi's understanding of human nature for a special issue of the journal that will feature the thought of Michael Polanyi.
Research Interest
Existentialism (free will of the individual), Aesthetics (related to the senses), Philosophy of mind, Feminist philosophy, and philosophy of embodiment. Philosophy of Technology and Transhumanism.
