Phenomenology, Cognition, and Artificial Intelligence

1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-23665-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

This volume critically examines the convergence of phenomenology and artificial intelligence (AI), with a particular focus on large language models (LLMs). Drawing from Edmund Husserl's philosophical legacy and expanded through engagements with contemporary AI theory, it explores how AI systems function not merely as computational tools but also as cultural artifacts reshaping human cognition, communication, and identity.

The volume features original contributions from philosophers, cognitive scientists, and AI ethicists that address the following questions: What does it mean to align artificial cognition with human values? How do LLMs leverage the structure of human experience? And can machines model unconscious processes? The contributions situate AI as a historical and cultural inflection point in human meaning-making, urging us to rethink both human and machine minds. Rather than reducing cognition to computation, the contributors provide interdisciplinary perspectives on consciousness, embodiment, and the ethical and cultural implications of AI’s emergence. Throughout, they show how phenomenology offers unique insights into the nature of artificial cognition and its relationship to human experience.

Phenomenology, Cognition, and Artificial Intelligence is essential reading for researchers and graduate students working in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, phenomenology, and the philosophy of artificial intelligence.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferrarello, Susi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

What AI Can Teach Us About Ourselves: An Introduction Susi Ferrarello

Part I: Foundations—Consciousness, Meaning, and Phenomenological Critique

1. What Do LLMs Tell Us About Phenomenology? Jeff Yoshimi

2. Auto-Affection of a Voice: Husserl, Derrida, and the Epistemology of Large Language Models Gigla Gonashvili

3. Large Language Models: Possibility of Meaning Grasping Without Self-Consciousness? Veronica Cibotaru

4. Artificial Consciousness and Inner Speech Mariela Destefano

5. What Could It Be Like to Be an AI? Christopher M. Thompson

6.  The Phenomenological Challenge to Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Intelligence, Consciousness and Large Language Models Steven S. Gouveia and Carlos Morujão

7. “Artificial Intelligence” or “Artificial Agency”? On the Question of Artificial Consciousness and the Artificial Unconscious Marina Christodoulou

Part II: Embodiment, Intersubjectivity, Affects, and Simulation

8. The Phenomenology of LLMs: Applying Husserl’s Semiotics Thomas Byrne

9. Affective Simulation Without Affectivity: How LLMs Engineer Empathy-Effects Susi Ferrarello

10. Large Language Models and the Postmodern Condition: Uncertain Certainty Lisa S. Nelson

11. Noetic and Noematic Analyses of Delusions: A Comparison Between Phenomenological and Computational Psychiatry Davide Perrotta

12. The Irreproducible Finitude: A Phenomenological Critique of Artificial Imagination Cristiano Vidali

13. Human-Like Cybernetic Avatars from a Phenomenological Perspective Daria Baglieri and Andrea Pace Giannotta

14. What Does AI Do with Language? A Heideggerian Study on the Nature of Language in the AI Era in Machine Translation Seyda Öztas Korkmaz and Fabián Portillo Palma

15. The Limits of AI as an Intersubjective Agent María Dolores García-Arnaldos

16. From Symbolic Reasoning to Embodied Perception: Rethinking the Collaboration Between Human and Artificial Cognition Penélope Pereira-Perdomo and Bryan Zúñiga Iturra

Part III: Mediation, Ethics, and Cultural Horizons

17. Phenomenologising in Motion: Examining the Educational Approach of Bildung in Light of AI’s Possible Objectification Riccardo Valenti

18. Dynamic Interactions and the Dark Room Problem Catalin Teoharie

19 Beyond Functionalism: The Porous Self and the Limits of AI Consciousness Research Laura Jane Nanni

Conclusion—From the AI, Back to the Human: A Ptolemaic Revolution Veronica Fantini

Über Autor(innen)

Susi Ferrarello is Full Professor of Philosophy at California State University, East Bay, USA. She works as a philosophical counselor and also writes for Psychology Today.