Journal of Continental Philosophy

ISSNs: 2688-3554, 2688-3562

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    Mourning the Future.Günther Anders, Manuela Kölke & Christopher John Müller - 2024 - Journal of Continental Philosophy 5 (1):169-177.
    This is the first English translation of “Die beweinte Zukunft,” a retelling of the story of Noah and the flood by Günther Anders (1902–1992). The German original was written in 1961 and first published in 1962 in the journal Alternative: Zeitschrift für Literatur und Diskussion in a slightly longer version, which also carried a subtitle that translates to “from the Molussian Apocrypha, translated by Günther Anders.” This link to Molussia, a fictious land of Anders’s invention that is frequently evoked in (...)
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    Artificial Creativity.Timothy Barker - 2024 - Journal of Continental Philosophy 5 (1):93-115.
    In this paper I take a philosophy of technology approach to so-called “creative AI.” In light of the disruptions promised by generative AI systems, I explore the way AI may give cause to develop a philosophical concept of creativity for the new technological milieu, beyond those often found in AI models, based on human psychology alone. Largely framed by the process thought of Alfred Whitehead, the paper first engages in a critique of human-centric accounts of creativity that are dominant in (...)
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    Bush Mechanics Tinker with Philosophy.Max Brierty & Stephen Muecke - 2024 - Journal of Continental Philosophy 5 (1):77-92.
    Indigenous cultures have an immanentist ontological basis, as opposed to the largely Western ontology of transcendence. We explore the implications for this assertion in the different ways that technological artifacts can be seen to articulate with human and non-human bodies in extended ecologies. Our method is one of an Indigenous critique of modernity, which aims iconoclastically to deflate the faith, hope and idealism often invested in technologies. Our (counter) examples emerge from the TV series Bush Mechanics, where practical skills are (...)
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    Moral Machines.Paul Dumouchel - 2024 - Journal of Continental Philosophy 5 (1):151-167.
    Most approaches to artificial moral agents (AMAs) apparently take it for granted that a machine could be moral. However, to think that the categories of morality or immorality apply to machines seems like a category mistake. This paper inquires into the conditions necessary for a machine to be moral. In order to do this, it first addresses the question what is a machine? It then argues that a form of agency is characteristic of machines in contradistinction of other technical objects (...)
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  5. The Computational Search for Unity: Synthesis in Generative AI.M. Beatrice Fazi - 2024 - Journal of Continental Philosophy 5 (1):31-56.
    The outputs of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) are often called “synthetic” to imply that they are not natural but artificial. Against that use of the term, this article focuses on a different denotation of synthesis, stressing the unifying and compositional aspects of anything synthetic. The case of large language models (LLMs) is used as an example to address synthesis philosophically alongside notions of representation in contemporary computational systems. It is argued that synthesis in generative AI should be understood as (...)
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    Editor's Introduction.Norma Lam-Saw - 2024 - Journal of Continental Philosophy 5 (1):1-29.
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    Foundations and Possibilities of Byung-Chul Han’s Critique of Dataism.Alberto Morán Roa - 2024 - Journal of Continental Philosophy 5 (1):129-150.
    This paper will study the Hanian critique of technology and dataism, as well as its implications. For this purpose, we will investigate the Heideggerian bases on which his thought is based, which show the modern essence of technology as a current stage of the metaphysics of presence. It will then be shown how the Hanian thesis accepts these premises in order to present dataism as an intervening agent in our horizons of understanding, as well as an element of contemporary systems (...)
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  8. Epistemology of Cybernetics.Gilbert Simondon & Taylor Adkins - 2024 - Journal of Continental Philosophy 5 (1):57-76.
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    Arming the Ears.Bernard Stiegler, James Davies, Colman Hogan & Gabriele Schliwa - 2024 - Journal of Continental Philosophy 5 (1):117-128.
    This article explores the consequences for music of its entry into the machine-age of sound, which involves, among other things, the de-instrumentalization of the ears and the possibility of an analytical listening ushering in the invention of digital tools that allow for a new graphic projection of musical time. Referring to important texts, notably by Bartók and Adorno, on the consequences of analogue sound reproduction for listening habits, musical analysis and even for the concept of writing, it looks at the (...)
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