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Erkan's work examines the collective closure between neural networks, predictive processing, and perceptual faculties as they relate to machine intelligence and algorithmic governmentality. Erkan has a background in both analytic and continental philosophy, supplemented by graduate research in medialogy, media archaeology and film philosophy. Despite originally working within the continental tradition of philosophy of art, aesthetics and media, Erkan's more recent work has been associated with the post-continental school of thinkers, influenced by philosophers such as Carl Sachs, Ray Brassier, Reza Negarestani and Thomas Moynihan. Erkan is currently pursuing post-graduate study in Critical Philosophy at The New Centre for Research & Practice, researching under the tutelage of Iranian ''theory fiction'' pioneer Reza Negarestani while working on Bayesian neuro-inference and AGI. Erkan also is a columnist and critic at the art and literature journal ''AEQAI'', publishing monthly contributions on contemporary art and intermedia. In addition to Erkan's work on Stiegler and Rouvroy, Erkan has published writing on Andy Clark and David Chalmers' ''extended mind'', Ned Block's ''non-iconic memory'' and ''phenomenology of perception and mental paint'', Robert Brandom's inferentialism, Negarestani's neo-rationalist turn, and left-Sellarsian philosophy writ large in publications including ''Philosophy in Review'', ''pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy'', ''New Formations'',''Theory, Culture & Society'', ''The Journal of Value Inquiry'', ''The Review of Metaphysics'', ''Radical Philosophy'', ''Theory & Event'', ''Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture'',''Cosmos & History'', ''Alphaville'', ''Cultural Studies'', ''New Review of Film and Television Studies'', ''Chiasma'', ''Rhizomes'', ''Labyrinth'', ''Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice'', ''Media Theory'', ''Philosophy East and West'', and ''The Cincinnati Romance Review''.  
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Erkan's work examines the collective closure between neural networks, predictive processing, and perceptual faculties as they relate to machine intelligence, perception, memory, and consciousness. Erkan has a background in German Idealism, the philosophy of mind and aesthetics, supplemented by graduate research in perception and memory. Despite originally publishing primarily within aesthetics and the philosophy of art/film, Erkan's more recent work has been associated with the post-analytic school of thinkers, often associated with and inspired by philosophers such as Carl Sachs, Ray Brassier, Graham Priest, Paul Giladi, James O'Shea, Kenneth Westphal, Reza Negarestani and Thomas Moynihan. Erkan pursued post-graduate study in Critical Philosophy at The New Centre for Research & Practice, researching under the tutelage of Iranian ''theory fiction'' pioneer Reza Negarestani while working on Bayesian neuro-inference and AGI. Erkan also is a columnist and critic at the art and literature journal ''AEQAI'', publishing monthly contributions on contemporary art and cinema. Amongst Erkan's published articles, Erkan has written extensively vehicle externalism, Andy Clark and David Chalmers' ''extended mind'', Ned Block's ''non-iconic memory'' and ''phenomenology of perception and mental paint'', Robert Brandom's strong inferentialism vs. Paul Redding's weak inferentialism, and, more broadly, the Right-wing Sellarsian vs. Left-wing Sellarsian philosophical debates. Erkan's writing, drawing from an eliminative materialist tendency and the neurophilosophy of the Churchlands and Ann-Sophia Barwich, comports with Right-wing Sellarsian naturalism; however, Erkan is deeply interested in Hegel (specifically's Hegel mature philosophy), and in this regard, also engages with left-Sellarsian thought. Erkan's articles have been published in peer-reviewed publications including ''Philosophy in Review'', ''pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy'', ''New Formations'',''Theory, Culture & Society'', ''The Journal of Value Inquiry'', ''The Review of Metaphysics'', ''Radical Philosophy'', ''Theory & Event'', ''Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture'',''Cosmos & History'', ''Alphaville'', ''Cultural Studies'', ''New Review of Film and Television Studies'', ''Chiasma'', ''Rhizomes'', ''Labyrinth'', ''Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice'', ''Media Theory'', ''Philosophy East and West'', and ''The Cincinnati Romance Review''.  
  
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Erkan worked with Giacomo Gilmozzi on Bernard Stiegler’s United Nations 2020 World Summit initiative “Internation.World.” With the support of the New Centre of Research & Practice, Erkan will be contributing to a book on the collective closure between non-anthropomorphic perceptual processes and neuro-inferential Bayesian cognitive architecture in the Summer of 2020.
 
Erkan worked with Giacomo Gilmozzi on Bernard Stiegler’s United Nations 2020 World Summit initiative “Internation.World.” With the support of the New Centre of Research & Practice, Erkan will be contributing to a book on the collective closure between non-anthropomorphic perceptual processes and neuro-inferential Bayesian cognitive architecture in the Summer of 2020.
  

Revision as of 22:37, 12 March 2021

Ekin Erkan is a Turkish philosopher specializing in the philosophy of mind, perception, science, language, and technology, living in New York City, and notable for researching with and developing Reza Negarestani's thesis on artificial general intelligence. Erkan's work is currently situated on the connection between Kant's transcendental unity of apperception/original synthetic unity of apperception and the 'association of ideas' per Kant's general and formal logic, parsing how Kant's Critique of Pure Reason proffers a novel program for the philosophy of mind—particularly insofar as the binding of percepts is concerned. Erkan is, broadly speaking, interested in indirect realism and phenomenal overflow, thus bridging Ned Block's work with that of Kant. Erkan has also recently been working on Hegel's 'das Logische', drawing from Angelica Nuzzo, Elena Ficara, and Karen Ng to work through the presuppositionless opening through the Actuality chapter, thus prodding different renderings of Hegel's logic (including non-classical logics, modal logic, and formal logic) in the service of modal metaphysics. Erkan is also inspired, albeit somewhat critical of, Brandomian incompatibility semantics and inferentialism as a Fregelian program that helps bring light to that which formal logic evades (normativity), yet Erkan also hopes to supplement Brandom, whom Erkan charges (alongside Houlgate, Nuzzo, Di Giovanni, and other textualist readers of Hegel) as eluding the a priori categories of thinking and being inherent to the Logic. Inspired by by those such as Reza Negarestani, Fabio Gironi, Daniel Sacilotto, Carl Sachs, Robert Brandom, Matthew Boyle, and John McDowell, Erkan is interested in the ever-collapsing analytic/continental distinction. Recently, Erkan has been working on Catarina Dutilh Novaes' concept of de-semantification and its compatibility, or incompatability, with theories of extended mind (although Erkan is widely critical of vehicle externalism). Erkan is, in equal part, inspired by the Right-Sellarsian naturalist project, and thus takes the Churchlands' program of neurophilosophy seriously; having been raised by two physicians, one of whom was a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist, Erkan's writing on the philosophy of perception and philosophy of mind keeps empirical philosophy, particularly neuroscience and perceptual psychology, close at hand.

Background

Erkan's work examines the collective closure between neural networks, predictive processing, and perceptual faculties as they relate to machine intelligence, perception, memory, and consciousness. Erkan has a background in German Idealism, the philosophy of mind and aesthetics, supplemented by graduate research in perception and memory. Despite originally publishing primarily within aesthetics and the philosophy of art/film, Erkan's more recent work has been associated with the post-analytic school of thinkers, often associated with and inspired by philosophers such as Carl Sachs, Ray Brassier, Graham Priest, Paul Giladi, James O'Shea, Kenneth Westphal, Reza Negarestani and Thomas Moynihan. Erkan pursued post-graduate study in Critical Philosophy at The New Centre for Research & Practice, researching under the tutelage of Iranian theory fiction pioneer Reza Negarestani while working on Bayesian neuro-inference and AGI. Erkan also is a columnist and critic at the art and literature journal AEQAI, publishing monthly contributions on contemporary art and cinema. Amongst Erkan's published articles, Erkan has written extensively vehicle externalism, Andy Clark and David Chalmers' extended mind, Ned Block's non-iconic memory and phenomenology of perception and mental paint, Robert Brandom's strong inferentialism vs. Paul Redding's weak inferentialism, and, more broadly, the Right-wing Sellarsian vs. Left-wing Sellarsian philosophical debates. Erkan's writing, drawing from an eliminative materialist tendency and the neurophilosophy of the Churchlands and Ann-Sophia Barwich, comports with Right-wing Sellarsian naturalism; however, Erkan is deeply interested in Hegel (specifically's Hegel mature philosophy), and in this regard, also engages with left-Sellarsian thought. Erkan's articles have been published in peer-reviewed publications including Philosophy in Review, pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy, New Formations,Theory, Culture & Society, The Journal of Value Inquiry, The Review of Metaphysics, Radical Philosophy, Theory & Event, Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture,Cosmos & History, Alphaville, Cultural Studies, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Chiasma, Rhizomes, Labyrinth, Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice, Media Theory, Philosophy East and West, and The Cincinnati Romance Review.

Global Research

Erkan worked with Giacomo Gilmozzi on Bernard Stiegler’s United Nations 2020 World Summit initiative “Internation.World.” With the support of the New Centre of Research & Practice, Erkan will be contributing to a book on the collective closure between non-anthropomorphic perceptual processes and neuro-inferential Bayesian cognitive architecture in the Summer of 2020.

Activism

Erkan has published extensively on Oktay Ince, a video activist/filmmaker whose work, spanning the last twenty years, was recently confiscated by Turkish authorities after being taken into police custody on May 30, 2019. Ince had raised suspicions after attempting to organize a protest in front of a courthouse in the capital of Ankara concerning the arrest and imprisoning of leftist activists, teachers, and artists in Turkey; Ince was quickly arrested. A month prior to his arrest, Ince had organized a protest in Izmir with a local feminist collective and was arrested once again, labelled a “terrorist” and charged with “insulting the president.” Following his most recent arrest, Ince has had his entire video archive confiscated by the Turkish state. Erkan’s writing on the unwarranted arrest, activism, and video art of Incay can be found here.

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