Huw Price

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Huw Price (born May 17, 1953 ) is an Australian philosopher, currently the Bertrand Russell Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy , Cambridge , and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge . He was previously Challis Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Time at the University of Sydney , and before that Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh . He is also one of the three founders of the Center for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at Cambridge University. In 2015 he took over the management of the new Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence for research into artificial intelligence. He said: “Machine intelligence will be one of the defining themes of our century and the challenge of making sure we take advantage of its opportunities is a challenge we all face. At present, however, we have barely begun to look at the effects of it, good or bad. "

Above all, his work over time has become decisive. He asks the question: how would things appear if time did not flow? His answer: Our world would not be a three-dimensional, dynamic world, but a four-dimensional block universe .

In addition to his work on the philosophy of physics , he is best known for the direction of "neo-pragmatism" and "anti-representationalism" and poses the question of the usefulness of our thinking in the context of concrete, historically contingent, politically and socially determinable Action contexts. His position is similar to that of Robert Brandom and Wilfrid Sellars .

In 1994 he was elected a Fellow of the “Australian Academy of the Humanities” and in 2012 a Fellow of the British Academy .

literature

  • Huw Price: Facts and the Function of Truth . Oxford 1988. ISBN 978-0631150787
  • Huw Price: Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time . Oxford 1996. ISBN 978-0195117981
  • Huw Price: Naturalism without Mirrors . Oxford 2011. ISBN 978-0195084337
  • Huw Price: Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism . Cambridge 2013. ISBN 978-0521761093
  • Huw Price, Richard Corry (eds.): Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited . Oxford 2007. ISBN 978-0199278190

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand . Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  2. ^ Faculty of Philosophy - Teaching and Research Staff . Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  3. ^ Trinity College - The Fellowship . Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  4. ^ Center for Time: People . Retrieved February 2, 2016. 
  5. ↑ http://philosophy.ed.ac.uk/phil_history/index.php
  6. ^ Center for Time: People . Retrieved February 2, 2016. 
  7. ↑ Cambridge University launches new center to study AI and the future of intelligence . In: phys.org , December 3, 2015. Retrieved February 27, 2019. 
  8. ↑ Huw Price: Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time . Oxford 1996
  9. ↑ http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/46002-expressivism-pragmatism-and-representationalism/
  10. ^ Richard Rorty, Pragmatism as Anti-Representationalism, in: John P. Murphy, Pragmatism. From Peirce to Davidson, Boulder u. a. 1990, pp. 1-6
  11. ↑ http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/25939-naturalism-without-mirrors/
  12. ↑ http://www.humanities.org.au/Fellowship/FindFellows/tabid/123/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1276/Price-Huw.aspx
  13. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.britac.ac.uk
personal data
SURNAME Price, Huw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1953