Replicants Who Hunt Replicants

Join Benedictine College’s Center for Technology & Human Dignity for a lecture by Dr. Jim Madden, Professor of Philosophy at Benedictine College, on “Replicants Who Replicants: What Our Anxiety about Chatbots Tells Us about the Human Difference,” with a response by Dr. Francis Petruccelli.

Dr. Madden has taught at Benedictine College since 2003, and he has advanced degrees in philosophy and psychoanalytic theory. His academic work focuses on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of technology, philosophy of religion, psychoanalysis, and metaphysics. He is the author of Mind, Matter, and Nature (2013), Thinking about Thinking: Mind and Meaning in the Era of Techno-Nihilism (2023), Unidentified Flying Hyperobject (2023), and Subjectivity and Its Discontent(s) (forthcoming).