Ernst Cassirer
philosopher · 2 mentions across 2 readings
In this course
Cassirer's neo-Kantian framework on symbolic forms and human cognition provides theoretical scaffolding for understanding how systems (technological, social, representational) constitute reality through the categories we impose on them. His work appears here to ground discussions of how choices in modeling—what objects we commit to representing, what distinctions we enforce—are never neutral but always reflect deeper epistemological and metaphysical assumptions. The course uses Cassirer to argue that AI systems and their architectures are fundamentally acts of symbolic world-making, not mere objective descriptions, making the politics of representation inseparable from questions of what can be computed or modeled in the first place.
Background
Ernst Alfred Cassirer was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy. Trained within the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science.
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