Robot Makes Free: The Leibnizian cryptowar of Norbert Wiener

Daniel Nemenyi ~ RP 2.14 (April 2023), pp. 3–20 ~ Article

The world of the future will … not [be] a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves. — Norbert Wiener, God and Golem, Inc. The word ‘robot’ entered the English language just over a hundred years ago, on 9 October 1922. It arrived with a Broadway production […]

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Reivew of Gilbert Simondon, Individuation in light of notions of form and individuation

Gus Hewlett ~ RP 2.12 (Spring 2022), pp. 76–83 ~ Review

Gilbert Simondon, Individuation in light of notions of form and individuation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020). 440pp., £88.00 hb., £20.99 pb., 978 0 81668 001 6 hb., 978 0 81668 002 3 pb. Gilbert Simondon, Individuation in light of notions of form and individuation, Volume II: Supplemental Texts (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020). […]

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The philosophical disability of reason: Evald Ilyenkov’s critique of machinic intelligence

Keti Chukhrov ~ RP 2.07 (Spring 2020), pp. 67–78 ~ Article

Present theories of computation and artificial intelligence often claim that philosophy should either discard its principal modes of gnoseology (that is, its theories of knowledge and cognition) and anthropomorphic genesis, or declare philosophical speculation obsolete altogether, since it fails to provide any precise knowledge regarding the most significant contemporary scientific and technological concerns. If post-structuralism […]