3 papers in the library · publishing 2019-2023
Edukacja Filozoficzna August 1, 2023 Gerhard Preyer
By "continental philosophy" I shall mean primarily phenomenology, which had its birthplace on "the continent" but now enjoys residence almost everywhere; but I shall also mean the "Heidelberg School," i.e., Dieter Henrich and his students, primarily Manfred Frank.Through the work of these thinkers, along with phenomenology's continued inquiry into self-consciousness, the self, first-person...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness March 1, 2023 Anita Pacholik-Żuromska, Gerhard Preyer
The aim of this paper is to address the problem of pre-reflective self-consciousness in the context of the contemporary computational approaches to the mind. These standpoints try to grasp consciousness in the language of mathematics and geometry, hoping for its more precise description. As a counterbalance to such theories, Sartre’s abiding insight (pre-reflective consciousness) and Henrich’s...
ProtoSociology 2019 Gerhard Preyer
Josh Weisberg discusses what he calls the “Heidelberg Problem” (named after Dieter Henrich’s Heidelberg School). However, he mischaracterizes this problem and believes he is able so resolve the problem, as mischaracterized, as well as meet the de se constraint, in the theoretical frame of reference of the Higher-Order Thought Monitoring theory of consciousness. This commentary highlights the...