Next Tuesday!! I have 3 seats reserved if anyones around. 6:30-9:30PM - 66 W. 12th Street 5th Floor Function: Decomposition, Localization, Abstraction Speakers: Ray Brassier, Reza Negarestani, Daniel Sacilotto Although principally associated with a thesis in the philosophy of mind, functionalism has wide-ranging ramifications. The concept of functional role or functional organization ties together a metaphysical problem about the basis of the distinction between matter and form, an epistemic problem about how to distinguish semantic content from physical information, and an engineering problem about the relation between structural and functional properties. This workshop will try to unravel the metaphysical, epistemic, and engineering aspects of functionalism by developing themes from the work of philosophers including William Bechtel, Robert Brandom, Wilfrid Sellars, and William Wimsatt. Hosted by the Center for Transformative Media at The New School.
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