Tag Archive: Anthropocentrism

The Anthropic Subject and the Anthropic Object

As I wrote in another post, we like to think of ourselves as living in a post-anthropic era where human beings are not special beings at all.  This belief is half right. We are certainly aware that human beings are one object among many; we are no longer the centre of the objective universe. But…

The New Anthropocentrism

The end of anthropocentrism is one of the signature achievements of science; starting with Copernicus, we have progressively shifted the center of the universe away from human beings. As of now, we are just yet another species in yet another planet in yet another solar system in yet another galaxy (not yet another universe, though…