Raymond Ruyer Test Drives a Tesla

Author: Ashley Woodward Recently it seems that everyone has been jumping on the AI bandwagon. The French philosopher Raymond Ruyer (1902-1987) made a pretty good head start when, in 1954, he published his book Cybernetics and the Origin of Information. The term Artificial Intelligence had not even been invented yet (that came in 1956), but …

Student Publication Success!

Michael Hegarty, a second year PhD candidate at the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy, has recently published a review in the high-quality journal Information, Communication and Society.  You can read the full piece here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2091467  Michael’s PhD project synthesises and critiques the work of various contemporary philosophers of technology (Stiegler, Ihde, Verbeek, Hui, Floridi), and examines …