Kant Meets Cyberpunk.
I defend a how-possibly argument for Kantian (or Kant*-ian) transcendental idealism, drawing on concepts from David Chalmers, Nick Bostrom, and the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. If we are artificial intelligences living in a virtual reality instantiated on a giant computer, then the fundame...
| Publicado en: | Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy Vol. 11; no. 55; pp. 411 - 436 |
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