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- Braver, L., A Thing of This World. A history of Continental Anti-Realism. (2007)
- ====== Braver, L., A Thing of This World. A history of Continental Anti-Realism. (2007) ====== ===== In... t of ideas taken from both sides. The linchpin of this synthesis was what he called his **Copernican Rev... e like a factory than a mirror or soft wax. It is this idea that enabled Kant to incorporate the empiric... arkable system which seems to flow naturally from this idea. The contemporary situation of warring camp
- Faucher K X, Metastasis and Metastability. A Deleuzian Approach to Information (2013)
- should be included or excluded in the definition. This is not an issue that will be settled in its entir... ch as Being, World, Cause, and so forth. It is in this way that information becomes philosophically inte... language-based forms of philosophy. It was during this time that the works of Deleuze was seen as a clar... our Deleuze’s view of generating the new. Whether this becomes based on Deleuze’s occasional complicity
- Bryant L, Diference and Givenness (2008)
- se.\\ -Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition This is a book onDeleuze. In particular, it is a book ... eptivity is conceived of as passive. In executing this proj ect I have also sought to determine how Dele... lified in the figures of Kant and Salomon Maimon. This has not been out of a desire to present yet anoth... harac terized by the primacy of the concept, then this is because he discovers ntelligibility in the aes
- Iliadis, A., Philosophy of Information: An Introduction (2013)
- PI) proponents think that Gates has a point – but this doesn’t mean we should all give up philosophy. Philosophy can be part of this project, because philosophy understood as concept... nt problems that press us so urgently. Of course, this naturally invites us to wonder which ideas, theor... ed by our ever-changing, information-laden world. This alters the philosophical debates, and makes them
- Farnsworth, K., Living through Downward Causation: From Molecules to Ecosystems (2017)
- s able to spontaneously generate events, breaking this chain; it is as though life possessed ‘free will’ by acting without a prior physical cause. In this chapter, we analyse this puzzling behaviour using information and control theory as a general framework... possibly a defining feature) of life emerges from this analysis. It is the presence of downward causatio
- Stewart, J. et al, Enaction. Toward a New Paradigm in Cognitive Science (2010)
- gm in Cognitive Science (2010) ====== The aim of this book is to present the paradigm of enaction as a ... tational Theory of Mind. A distinctive feature of this book is a deliberate choice not to go over that o... ar meetings, summer schools, and funded projects. This program makes a radical break with the formalisms... f goals, and culminating in a decision to act. In this scheme, “ cognition ” is thus sandwiched between
- Levy, P. The semantic sphere 1 : computation, cognition, and information economy (2011)
- at the beginning of the 21st Century, the use of this memory is limited by problems of semantic opacity... le. We do not yet know how to systematically turn this ocean of data into knowledge, and still less how ... ur collective intelligence. The primary goal of this book is to present to the scientific community an... become transparent, interoperable and computable. This system of semantic coding is called IEML (Informa
- Meillassoux, Q. Potentiality and Virtuality (2011)
- t change at every moment? Meillassoux argues that this apparent paradox is contingent upon the acceptanc... bilistic reasoning about the universe as a whole. This probabilistic reasoning is based upon the totaliz... en be assigned a probability of occurring. Yet if this totalization is impossible, as Cantor’s discovery... the level of the universe. It is on the basis of this Cantorian advance that Meillassoux sets forth a f
- Marletto, C. Beyond Initial Conditions and Laws of Motion. Constructor Theory of Information and Life. (2017)
- tions are possible, what are impossible, and why. This is a sharp departure from what I call the prevail... with given resources, under the dynamical laws. This constructor-theoretic, task-based formulation of ... ents (i.e., about possible and impossible tasks). This has the potential to incorporate exactly into fun... is deemed to be instantiated in quantum systems. This theory provides the conceptual basis for the cons
- Collier, J.D., Causation is the Transfer of Information (1999)
- xception of singular causation, Armstrong, 1983). This broad approach goes back to Plato, and was also held in this century by Russell, who like Plato, but unlike th... that a causal process is one that can be marked. This view relies heavily on ideas about the transfer o... d conserved quantity. A considerable advantage of this approach over the others is that it requires neit
- Unger, R., Smolin, L. The singular universe and the reality of time: a proposal in natural philosophy (2015)
- tempts to form a view of ourselves. In addressing this topic, we soon reach the limits of what we know a... aiming powers that it lacks. Yet we cannot cast this topic aside. First, we cannot avoid it because we... r which the findings of science are often mistaken. In this book, we deal with this subject directly.
- Flack, Jessica, Life’s Information Theory (2017)
- d into multiple functional space and time scales. This multi-scale structure results from the collective... converge, new levels of organization consolidate. This process gives the appearance of downward causatio... rations that reduce environmental uncertainty. If this view is correct, identifying important, functiona... biology by studying the computation inductively. This includes strategy extraction from data, construct
- Lafontaine C, The Cybernetic Matrix of `French Theory' (2007)
- trix_of_French_Theory%27 [accessed Mar 13 2018]. This article aims to draw a portrait of the influence of cybernetics on soft science. To this end, structuralism, post-structuralism and postmo... e specialists were involved in the elaboration of this ‘new science’. We will then retrace the influence... phy, will be analyzed based on how they relate to this paradigm. We will also insist on the fact that th
- Johansson, L.G., Causation, A Synthesis of Three Approaches (2007)
- as proven all too easy to invent counterexamples. This is a philosophical challenge and an incentive for... ing beyond paradigmatic examples. In response to this, some have suggested an ecumenical approach, sayi... erent case apply the analysis that fits best. But this sounds a bit ad hoc; what is the unifying princip... ing stronger than mere disjunction is needed. In this paper I will propose a more unified approach invo
- Anjum, R.L., Mumford, S., Dispositional Modality (2011)
- ains an issue that has been inadequately treated. This concerns the precise modal value that comes with dispositionality. We contend in this paper that dispositionality involves a non-alethi... cy is, of course, a dispositional term itself, so this last statement offers little by way of illuminati... ncy but weaker than necessity. The recognition of this distinct modal value for dispositionality is one