Wittgenstein on Forms of Life

Boncompagni, Anna

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“…14 Fricker has constantly criticized postmodernism for its alleged conflation of social power and rational authority; see for instance Fricker (1998, 160;2000, 149;2007, 3). 15 On Wittgenstein's notion of forms of life see Boncompagni (2022). 16 Another issue with the metaphor of the gap is that it betrays a neutral conception of reason, neglecting the role of the affective predispositions that ground the very possibility of perceiving the gap itself; see Lobo 2022 for more on this.…”

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Hermeneutical Injustice and Bisexuality: Toward New Conceptual Tools

Boncompagni

2024

Hypatia

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The starting point of this paper is a clarification of the forms that hermeneutical injustice takes for bisexual individuals. While it is often thought that bisexuals do not need special protections or politics because they easily “pass” for straight and thus enjoy so-called hetero privilege, this precise situation is a source of oppression, silencing, erasure, and discrimination for many of them within both straight and gay environments. Bi-invisibility, bi-erasure, and persistent negative stereotypes contribute to specific forms of hermeneutical injustice for this segment of the population. Reflection on these forms, however, as well as reflection on bisexual identity, highlights some problematic aspects connected to the metaphor of hermeneutical “gaps” and the underlying theoretical model that are often used or assumed in research on epistemic injustice. With the aim of clarifying and responding to such difficulties, I introduce Wittgenstein's notion of hinges as a conceptual tool to better understand these phenomena. The case of bisexuality shows that seeing hermeneutical injustice in the light of the metaphor of hinges, instead of that of gaps, helps better grasp its features, its causes, and the forms that it can assume.

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Hermeneutical Injustice and Bisexuality: Toward New Conceptual Tools

Boncompagni

2024

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“…Cavell 1988 [39] sees Wittgenstein's position as itself being essentially ambivalent. For a useful review of the literature, see Boncompagni 2022 [40]. 19 As James Conant observes: 'The form here in question figures in Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy as a very abstract logical (or, as he later prefers to say, grammatical) category' (Conant 2020 [41], 646).…”

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Artificial Forms of Life

Sunday Grève

2023

Philosophies

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The logical problem of artificial intelligence—the question of whether the notion sometimes referred to as ‘strong’ AI is self-contradictory—is, essentially, the question of whether an artificial form of life is possible. This question has an immediately paradoxical character, which can be made explicit if we recast it (in terms that would ordinarily seem to be implied by it) as the question of whether an unnatural form of nature is possible. The present paper seeks to explain this paradoxical kind of possibility by arguing that machines can share the human form of life and thus acquire human mindedness, which is to say they can be intelligent, conscious, sentient, etc. in precisely the way that a human being typically is.

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“…For more detail on Wittgenstein's conceptualization of culture and values as forms of life, seeBoncompagni (2022).…”

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Augmented Cognition: Life as we don't know it

Hipólito¹

2023

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This paper proposes a framework for comprehending the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as Augmented Cognition (AugCog). AugCog is viewed as an emergent bio-cultural process, reflecting AI's design, implementation, and usage. Section 1 establishes smart societies as a complex system. Section 2 defends that the development of AI is analogous to the biological process of niche construction. Section 3 defines AI as a socioculturally embodied expansion by which AI is shaped by and shapes human experience, resulting in various forms of AugCog. Section 4 highlights AugCog in mixed realities such as social media, neurotechnology, and smart environments, illustrating its emergence from multiscale and interdependent sociocultural perspectives. AugCog's perspective situates the human species in the state space of evolution, signifying our existence as a species and as embodied individuals.

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Wittgenstein on Forms of Life

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Hermeneutical Injustice and Bisexuality: Toward New Conceptual Tools

Hermeneutical Injustice and Bisexuality: Toward New Conceptual Tools

Artificial Forms of Life

Augmented Cognition: Life as we don't know it

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