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Philosopher of technology — Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus University Rotterdam · Hong Kong / Netherlands · d. 1978
The developer of 'cosmotechnics', the claim that technology takes culturally specific rather than universal forms. In 2026 he published Kant Machine, on Kant and artificial intelligence.
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Seventy-three years after Heidegger asked what technology is, the answer that matters is the one most often skipped: the essence of technology is nothing technological. A reading of Gestell, the Rhine passage, the sentence he cut, the Nazi record, and the objections of Feenberg and Ihde.
Yuk Hui, Martin Heidegger
Yuk Hui
Yuk Hui carries Kant's transcendental idealism into the centre of the argument about artificial intelligence and robotics: what may be called an intelligent machine, can machines be moral, is there an algorithm for perpetual peace?
Bloomsbury · 2026 · English
Publisher page →The argument about artificial intelligence runs almost entirely on questions from the philosophy of mind. Deleuze and Guattari offer a different unit of analysis — desire as production, the machine as a cut into a flow, the assemblage as the thing that actually does something. What that buys, and what it cannot buy.
David Chalmers, Andy Clark, Nick Land, Yuk Hui, Plato, Gilles Deleuze
Two meetings the autumn diary has so far missed: a centenary symposium on Foucault at the University of Pennsylvania on 24 and 25 September, and the North American Sartre Society's 31st annual meeting, held on Zoom in October on artificial intelligence and digital existence. Plus a verified survey of what follows to the end of November.
Yuk Hui
Six of the year's most consequential philosophy books are about artificial intelligence. The two that are not — a history of the concept and a history of prediction — are the reason the other six are worth reading. A survey of the year to September.
Eric Schwitzgebel, Yuk Hui, Carissa Véliz
The new book by the Erasmus University philosopher of technology asks whether machines can be moral, and whether there is an algorithm for perpetual peace.
Yuk Hui
