Aristotle

philosopher · 8 mentions across 8 readings

In this course

Aristotle appears as a historical turning point in how Western thought linearized time and space, moving from mythological entanglement toward demythologized causality—a shift the course readings invoke to frame how computational and scientific abstraction inherit a particular philosophical inheritance. The references suggest him less as an active agent in contemporary theory than as a foundational figure whose systematization of logic and being enables later frameworks for modeling, apparatus design, and what counts as "the political" when reduced to calculation rather than potentiality.

Mentioned in 8 readings

Claire Colebrook

A Globe of One’s Own, In Praise of the Flat Earth

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managements of populations and democratic aims to increase a society’s happiness—as a loss of the political. As long as politics is focused on bare life, or the calculation of a living substance, we will have retreated from the question of …

Claudia Jacques

Human-Computer Interaction Design and the Cybersemiotic Experience

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Initially, in the ancient Greek civilization, time and space were entangled with the gods, existing in non-linear time in a space without earthly boundaries, yet sharing the essence of the Ouroboros. “Aristotle straightened out the arabesqu…

Karen Barad

Agential Realism, from Meeting the Universe Halfway

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In what follows, I provide a detailed explication of this agential realist ontology. I begin with a detailed examination of the nature of the apparatus, including two significant analytical shifts that are important emendations to Bohr’s fo…

Luciano Floridi

The Method of Levels of Abstraction

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The Method of Abstraction Models are the outcome of an analysis of a system, developed at some LoA(s) for some purpose. An important contribution of these ideas is to make precise the commitment to a LoA/GoA before further elaborating a th…

Paul M. Churchland

from Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes

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But FP is no part of this growing synthesis. Its intentional categories stand magnificently alone, without visible prospect of reduction to that larger corpus. A successful reduction cannot be ruled out, in my view, but FP’s explanatory imp…

Reza Negarestani

from Intelligence and Spirit

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sapience ought to overcome, for it is the very idea of humanist conservatism that misrepresents what is accidental and locally contingent as what is necessary and universal. In discarding the human in the hope of an immediate contact with s…

Steven J. Dick

Cosmic Evolution from Cosmos and Culture

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In the realm of the natural world, in the broadest sense we have only a limited number of destinies whether we like it or not. Cosmic evolution provides at least three vastly different scenarios of what the long-term human future may be. Th…

Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence

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and existential risk are foundational to the field of “AI safety,” forming what they call, an “AI safety epistemic community.” Haas (1992) identifies an epistemic community as a group of people with 1) a shared set of normative and principl…

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