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Philosophy

Can Machines be in Language? LLMs brought language to machines. Machines are not up to the Challenge, by P. Denning and B. S. Rousse

A wonderful Article/Opinion Piece on LLMs’ relationship to human languages. I highly recommend it!“Denning, Peter, and B. Scot Rousse. 2024. “Can Machines Be in Language?” Commun. ACM 67(3):32–35. doi:10.1145/3637629.” After…

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“Das Denken ohne Brücke. Zur Transformation der Phänomenologie bei Martin Heidegger” by E. Wolz-Gottwald (1996)

In: Phänomenologische Forschungen, 1996, Neue Folge, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1996), pp. 67-83. About the relationship between Husserl and Heidegger, Wolz-Gottwald observes that Heidegger gave up on the descriptive claims…

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“Thought and Issue in Heidegger” by Werner Marx (1977)

In the final remarks, W. Marx seems to draw attention to the necessity to make explicate Heidegger's "non-metaphysical ethics," something he then develops on his own in his famous book…

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Reading Ned Block’s “Can only Meat Machines be Conscious?” in TICS 2761, 2025.

Ned Block discusses three common assumptions in AI research regarding AI consciousness: 1) computational functionalism: "implement computations of a certain kidn is necessary and sufficient for consciousness..."

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What is Wrong with Analytic Philosophy?

In What is Analytic Philosophy? (CUP, 2008 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/what-is-analytic-philosophy/AD2E62BC22FFF9363216428C1D9EDC81) Hans-Johann Glock asks whether analytic philosophy’s commitment to clarity, logic, and linguistic analysis has led to an overly narrow focus. Aaron Preston,…

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Heidegger-Gadamer Correspondence (2024.11), ed. by J. Grondin/M. Michalski

The Book-Highlight of 2024, the correspondence between Heidegger and Gadamer has been published by V. Klostermann in November 2024. It covers the years 1922-1976; almost 500 pages. I’ve been greatly…

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Let’s read: Vincent Blok, “Ecological Hermeneutic Phenomenology”

A Method to Explore the Ontic and Ontological Structures of Technologies in the World, published in: Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology, De Boer, B., Zwier, J. (Eds.), Openbook Publishers…

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“Zum ‘Hand-Werk’ des Denkens – Zum Nachlass von Martin Heidegger”, by Ulrich von Bülow (2017)

Article by Ulrich von Bülow about the Heidegger Nachlass. We get some interesting information in this article:Heidegger’s Nachlass was organized and put in a certain order by Heidegger himself and…

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Tobias Keiling, Being Before Time

in: Gatherings, Volume 13, 2023 Wonderful article by T. Keiling (Warwick University, UK) in the current issue of Gatherings (Vol. 13). The title of the article is: “Being before Time?…

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Klaus Held, Lebendige Gegenwart (1967)

Held, Klaus. Lebendige Gegenwart: die Frage nach der Seinsweise. Nachdr. Kluwer, 2010. Some comments on a classic of phenomenology, Held’s dissertation “Lebendige Gegenwart”. Held is asking about the “way of…

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