Iain Hamilton Grant

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Iain Hamilton Grant is a philosopher of nature and German Idealism whose work challenges the subordination of nature to human thought, arguing instead for nature's priority and autonomy. The course readings invoke Grant—particularly through his engagement with Schelling—to dismantle the anthropocentric bias that treats nature as merely intelligible or manipulable, positioning biological and inorganic systems as fundamentally prior to and independent of rational cognition. His interventions enable the seminar's central concern with how AI and cybernetics inherit and potentially perpetuate this philosophical error of treating intelligence as the measure of life itself.

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