CTM will host Reza Negarestani and Ray Brassier on March 25th, at 6.30 PM in Wollman Hall at The New School. Event details to follow, heres the summary: Function: Decomposition, Localization, Abstraction 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.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:23:23 +0000
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