Alex Ling
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748641130
- eISBN:
- 9780748652631
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748641130.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This book offers an in-depth examination of cinema and its philosophical significance. It employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film scholarship – ...
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This book offers an in-depth examination of cinema and its philosophical significance. It employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film scholarship – namely, ‘can cinema be thought?’ Treating this question on three levels, the author first asks if we can really think what cinema is, at an ontological level. Second, he investigates whether cinema can actually think for itself; that is, whether or not it is truly ‘artistic’. Finally, the author explores in what ways we can rethink the consequences of the fact that cinema thinks. In answering these questions, he uses well-known films ranging from Hiroshima mon amour to Vertigo to The Matrix to illustrate Badiou's philosophy, as well as to consider the ways in which his work can be extended, critiqued and reframed with respect to the medium of cinema.Less
This book offers an in-depth examination of cinema and its philosophical significance. It employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film scholarship – namely, ‘can cinema be thought?’ Treating this question on three levels, the author first asks if we can really think what cinema is, at an ontological level. Second, he investigates whether cinema can actually think for itself; that is, whether or not it is truly ‘artistic’. Finally, the author explores in what ways we can rethink the consequences of the fact that cinema thinks. In answering these questions, he uses well-known films ranging from Hiroshima mon amour to Vertigo to The Matrix to illustrate Badiou's philosophy, as well as to consider the ways in which his work can be extended, critiqued and reframed with respect to the medium of cinema.
Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195183603
- eISBN:
- 9780199850457
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195183603.003.0021
- Subject:
- Music, Opera
Although Siegfried may have been the supposed main character of the Ring, more philosophical and psychological significance was more evident through the thoughts, feeling, and actions of other ...
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Although Siegfried may have been the supposed main character of the Ring, more philosophical and psychological significance was more evident through the thoughts, feeling, and actions of other characters. The acts performed by other characters played no small part in affecting the course of events and the development of other characters. Unlike the other characters who bring about impacts through their ideas, emotions, and plans, Siegfried is important because of what his character represents, and what his character becomes and soon achieves. The fundamental significance of Siegfried’s character is to demonstrate how his type of heroism does not serve as a universal solution to Wotan’s problem of order and to other such problems.Less
Although Siegfried may have been the supposed main character of the Ring, more philosophical and psychological significance was more evident through the thoughts, feeling, and actions of other characters. The acts performed by other characters played no small part in affecting the course of events and the development of other characters. Unlike the other characters who bring about impacts through their ideas, emotions, and plans, Siegfried is important because of what his character represents, and what his character becomes and soon achieves. The fundamental significance of Siegfried’s character is to demonstrate how his type of heroism does not serve as a universal solution to Wotan’s problem of order and to other such problems.
Guy Robinson
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823222919
- eISBN:
- 9780823235513
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823222919.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Artificial intelligence (AI), the attempt to produce or imitate intelligence, is different from mechanical intelligence and the machine intelligence discussed in Chapter 5. It is not always to be ...
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Artificial intelligence (AI), the attempt to produce or imitate intelligence, is different from mechanical intelligence and the machine intelligence discussed in Chapter 5. It is not always to be associated with a science project with a predictable outcome. As several studies have already been made regarding AI, its social or philosophical significance is assessed. Marvin Minsky states that AI aims to get a machine to do something that man would do with intelligence, which is different from actually making intelligence. This chapter discusses how the creation of this sort of intelligence becomes “artificial” and also attempts to clarify other paradoxes that arise from this premise.Less
Artificial intelligence (AI), the attempt to produce or imitate intelligence, is different from mechanical intelligence and the machine intelligence discussed in Chapter 5. It is not always to be associated with a science project with a predictable outcome. As several studies have already been made regarding AI, its social or philosophical significance is assessed. Marvin Minsky states that AI aims to get a machine to do something that man would do with intelligence, which is different from actually making intelligence. This chapter discusses how the creation of this sort of intelligence becomes “artificial” and also attempts to clarify other paradoxes that arise from this premise.
