22 November 2018, LUNCH Seminar, Federica Russo

Federica Russo (University of Amsterdam) is going to be the inaugural speaker of the ILLC LUNch seminar! Light lunch will be provided to the audience. If you prefer, you are also encouraged to bring your own lunch!

Abstract

Technology is pervasive in science and in everyday life. To be sure, it has always been. And yet, a special class of technologies – namely digital technologies – are making this pervasiveness also radical. Radical in the way we understand the world, ourselves, and the relation between the two. This, in a nutshell, reconstructs one of the goals of the philosophy of information (PI). In this talk I will spell out the stance PI takes towards digital technologies and explore its potential for two ideas: (i) that we have reasons to explore a process-based (rather than entity-based) ontology, (ii) that technologies have a poietic character.

For more information, see https://events.illc.uva.nl/LUNCH/ or contact Sirin Botan at S.Botan at uva.nl, or Zoi Terzopoulou at Z.Terzopoulou at uva.nl.