[^5]: Adrian Johnston, “Phantom of Consistency: Alain Badiou and Kantian Transcendental idealism,” Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 41, No. 3 (2008), 352-54; Badiou, Being and Event, 28.
[^6]: Ibid., 327-43.
[^7]: David Roden, Posthuma…[^17]: See ibid., 338-9; Olivia Lucca Fraser, “Nothingness and Event” (unpublished manuscript), Academia (2009), https://www.academia.edu/858888/NothingnessandEvent. Meillassoux argues, along similar lines, that the absolute represented by …
Quentin Meillassoux
philosopher · 3 mentions across 2 readings
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Meillassoux appears as a philosophical interlocutor in debates about the nature of the absolute and how scientific knowledge relates to it, positioned alongside thinkers like Badiou in speculative realist discourse. The course readings invoke him to argue that the absolute—what science reveals—is not a determinate thing but rather something that resists objectification, which becomes relevant when thinking about how AI systems claim to access or represent reality. His work seems to ground discussions about whether mathematical and computational models can ever fully capture being itself, a central tension in the seminar's examination of AI's epistemological pretensions.
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