Professor Rafael Winkler unravels several philosophies of the age that lie behind an anti-slavery 19th century lithograph
Rousseau
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Liberal thought has a place in the era of artificial intelligence
Because liberalism demands accountability, AI now enters into an updated social contract between individuals, their states, and AI-producing companies
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Metaphors (as models), and our own ‘networked’ existence
In The Prison-House of Language (Princeton University Press, 1972) Fredric Jameson opens the Preface with the following thought-provoking remark (p. v): The history of thought is the history of its models. Classical mechanics, the organism, natural selection, the atomic nucleus or electronic field, the computer: such are some of the objects or systems which, first […]