Ernst Cassirer

philosopher · 2 mentions across 2 readings

In this course

Cassirer appears only obliquely in these excerpts—the first concerns "level of abstraction" (LoA) theory and epistemic commitment, while the second invokes Polybius without Cassirer's direct involvement. Without substantial textual evidence, it's difficult to locate his specific role in the seminar's concerns with AI, cybernetics, and representation, though his philosophy of symbolic forms would plausibly bear on how systems (traffic lights, games, historical narratives) constitute meaning through formalization.

Mentioned in 2 readings

Luciano Floridi

The Method of Levels of Abstraction

To summarise, by accepting a LoA a theory commits itself to the existence of certain types of objects, the types constituting the LoA (by trying to model a traffic light in terms of three colours one shows one’s commitment to the existence …

Notes on Polybius by Sinneslöschen

Nitro Zeus - Scott Benzel

As Polybius of Arcadia, captive of Rome, champion of facticity and ‘universal history’ against tragedy and spectacle, fades, his namesake game, one (of many) early vectors overwhelming facticity with spectacular memesis and incipient necrop…

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People mentioned in the same passages — sorted by co-occurrence weight.

Clarence Irving Lewis 1 Immanuel Kant 1 Achille Mbembe 1 Alex Gibney 1 Erwin Panofsky 1 Nicolas Poussin 1 Polybius of Megalopolis 1