Eric Schliesser, Hume, Husserl and Foucault’s The Order of Things, Digressions & Impressions blog, 12 May 2023 As I have noted before (recall), Hume plays a triple role in Foucault’s (1966) Les mots et les choses (hereafter: The Order of Things).* First, alongside a number of other familiar philosophers Hume’s works are treated as illustrations …
Some Reasons to be Skeptical of AI Authorship, Part 1: What is an (AI) Author? By Gordon Hull, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 06 February 2023 Large Language Models (LLMs) like Chat-GPT burst into public consciousness sometime in the second half of last year, and Chat-GPT’s impressive results have led to a wave of …
Eric Schliesser, Foucault on Enlightenment, and Journalism, Digressions and Impressions (blog), 19 January 2023. […] Foucault redefines the nature of journalism from, say, the reporting of news, to this more ontological or existential question pertaining in tricky ways to identity, ‘what are we now?’ To be sure, Foucault does not legislate that journalism is not …
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