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Dr Tim Elmo Feiten is a philosopher of science with a focus on the sciences of life, mind, and artificial intelligence. His work brings the history and philosophy of science into dialogue with other fields, especially continental and Classical German philosophy. He has used the philosophy of embodied cognitive science to develop new readings of Jakob von Uexküll and Max Stirner and to ask questions about the relationships between art, science, technology, and society. Dr Feiten is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor at Penn State University and did his PhD at the University of Cincinnati. In this episode, we discuss how subjective experience remains a deep philosophical and scientific problem, how continental philosophy can be used in AI and cognitive science research and how science is essentially dialectical.
You can find more of Dr Feiten's work at https://philosophy.la.psu.edu/people/tim-elmo-feiten/ and linkedin.com/in/tim-elmo-feiten-41882b48
RSam Podcast #70
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Dr Feiten's papers: scholar.google.com/citations?user=4-FTePoAAAAJ&hl=en
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolegomena_to_Any_Future_Metaphysics
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674202832
philpapers.org/rec/DENQQ
fordhampress.com/9780823229529/what-should-we-do-with-our-brain
https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/3691/After-PhrenologyNeural-Reuse-and-the-Interactive
https://www.dialecticalsystems.eu/
https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/3691/After-PhrenologyNeural-Reuse-and-the-Interactive
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phc3.12914
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectics_of_Nature
goodreads.com/book/show/34658837-an-introduction-to-dialectics
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262633673/an-engine-not-a-camera/
academic.oup.com/book/10091
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Dr Tim Elmo Feiten is a philosopher of science with a focus on the sciences of life, mind, and artificial intelligence. His work brings the history and philosophy of science into dialogue with other fields, especially continental and Classical German philosophy. He has used the philosophy of embodied cognitive science to develop new readings of Jakob von Uexküll and Max Stirner and to ask questions about the relationships between art, science, technology, and society. Dr Feiten is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor at Penn State University and did his PhD at the University of Cincinnati. In this episode, we discuss how subjective experience remains a deep philosophical and scientific problem, how continental philosophy can be used in AI and cognitive science research and how science is essentially dialectical.
You can find more of Dr Feiten's work at https://philosophy.la.psu.edu/people/tim-elmo-feiten/ and linkedin.com/in/tim-elmo-feiten-41882b48
RSam Podcast #70
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Please consider financially supporting my work (ONLY if you have the means).
Patreon: patreon.com/trsam?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink
Substack: rsampod.substack.com
PayPal: paypal.me/rsampod?country.x=AU&locale.x=en_AU
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{Podcast}
Substack: rsampod.substack.com/podcast
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le
SFP: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rahul-samaranayake
{Website}
rahulsam.me
{Social Media}
substack.com/@trsam
instagram.com/name_is_rahul
https://x.com/trsam97
linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b
{Reference Links}
Dr Feiten's papers: scholar.google.com/citations?user=4-FTePoAAAAJ&hl=en
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolegomena_to_Any_Future_Metaphysics
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674202832
philpapers.org/rec/DENQQ
fordhampress.com/9780823229529/what-should-we-do-with-our-brain
https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/3691/After-PhrenologyNeural-Reuse-and-the-Interactive
https://www.dialecticalsystems.eu/
https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/3691/After-PhrenologyNeural-Reuse-and-the-Interactive
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phc3.12914
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectics_of_Nature
goodreads.com/book/show/34658837-an-introduction-to-dialectics
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262633673/an-engine-not-a-camera/
academic.oup.com/book/10091
{Music Used}
"Supapao - Can't Fall In Love" is under a Free To Use YouTube license
soundcloud.com/supapao
Music powered by BreakingCopyright: youtu.be/VZkFJAb_gx4?si=J6AwKLAmikAzoqHj
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If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting theunhappyman.substack.com
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Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.
Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing.
If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at trahulsam@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you.
