Intermittent Legitimacy
Hans Blumenberg and Artificial Intelligence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4070922 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leif Weatherby (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11-39 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New German Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/0094033x-9439601 |
| OpenAlex | W4214884488 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 32 |
Hans Blumenberg's only known treatment of the topic of artificial intelligence comes in the form of a fragmentary meditation on the first chatbot, Joseph Weizenbaum's ELIZA. Blumenberg compares this program to the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, arguing that both AI and phenomenology make a false assumption about intelligence or consciousness. This article argues that Blumenberg's brush with digital systems is crucial in updating our own critique of AI as it proliferates in a new, dynamic form today. Drawing on and shifting the account of technology in the phenomenological tradition, Blumenberg includes machines in the constitution of meaning through rhetoric and points the way to a new wave of digital critique
Constitution · Epistemology · Legitimacy · Meditation · Phenomenology (philosophy) · Politics · Rhetoric · Theology · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Humanities and Social Sciences · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy
Hans Blumenberg
The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
How Not to Network a Nation
Inhuman Power
Cybernetic Revolutionaries
Computation and Human Experience
The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information
Authenticity in the age of digital companions
Eliza—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine
Deep learning
I.—computing Machinery and Intelligence
From judgment to calculation
The Second Self
From the Theory of Technology to the Technique of Metaphor
Hans Blumenberg’s Early Theory of Technology and History
Histories of Technicization
Working Over Philosophy
Kyklophorology
Empiricism without magic
History, Metaphors, Fables. A Hans Blumenberg Reader
Die offene Maschine. Heidegger, Günther und Simondon über die technologische Bedingung
Human-Machine Reconfigurations
The Modern Concept of History
La revanche des neurones
The perfect story
Computer Power and Human Reason
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |