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Introducere în tehnologiile cuantice - Calculul cuantic, criptografia cuantică, filosofia tehnologiilor cuantice
No full textO lucrare de sinteză și inițiere care articulează, într-un cadru unitar, trei direcții majore ale „tehnologiilor cuantice”: (i) calculul cuantic, (ii) criptografia/comunicațiile cuantice și (iii) reflecția filosofică asupra implicațiilor epistemice, etice și politico-instituționale ale „celei de-a doua revoluții cuantice”. Volumul este însoțit de date bibliografice complete.
Cartea urmărește să ofere o introducere accesibilă, dar riguroasă, destinată în special cititorilor cu bază în știință și informatică, interesați de impactul fenomenelor cuantice asupra procesării informației și securității. În centrul demersului se află ideea că avantajele (și riscurile) tehnologice provin din proprietăți fundamentale precum superpoziția, inseparabilitatea, interferența, incertitudinea și non-clonarea, discutate ca „resurse” operaționale pentru calcul, comunicație și securitate.
Structura este stratificată: începe cu o secțiune de orientare („Tehnologii cuantice pentru informatică și securitate”), apoi aprofundează prin două blocuri didactic-tehnice (calcul cuantic; criptografie cuantică) și se încheie cu un modul filosofic dedicat implicațiilor conceptuale și normative. Cuprinsul indică o progresie de la fundamente (QIS și noțiuni de mecanică cuantică relevante) către aplicații, limitări și guvernanță (UE și România), urmate de resurse/bibliografie.
Un element distinctiv al volumului este conectarea discuției tehnice la politici și strategii: sunt prezentate atât Strategia UE „Quantum Europe Strategy: Quantum Europe in a Changing World” (Comisia Europeană, 2 iulie 2025), cu accent pe trecerea „de la laborator la fabrică și utilizare”, cât și Strategia națională a României (2024–2029), orientată spre resurse, industrie și poziționare internațională, inclusiv infrastructură, competențe și securitate „by design”.
Prin combinarea (a) unui parcurs didactic cu exerciții și soluții, (b) a unei sinteze aplicate pentru informatică și securitate, (c) a unui cadru de referințe/bibliografie și (d) a unei secțiuni de reflecție filosofico-etică, cartea funcționează ca manual introductiv, ghid de orientare interdisciplinară și punct de plecare pentru discuții despre guvernanța tehnologiilor cuantice.
Într-o prezentare academică, volumul poate fi încadrat drept o lucrare de „interfață” între curricula tehnică (algoritmi, protocoale, hardware) și problematica de responsabilitate socială (riscuri, utilizare duală, educație și „balustrade etice”)
On Ninan's Puzzle of Easy Foreknowledge
No full textThe puzzle discussed in this paper, due to Ninan, is a short story that suggests an apparent asymmetry between assertions about the future and assertions about the past. I consider three competing hypotheses about knowledge that might account for the linguistic data highlighted by the story, and I argue that—contrary to Ninan’s diagnosis—the best explanation does not require treating knowledge of the future as significantly different from knowledge of the past
The Ethical Consequences of the “AI-as-Colleague” Narrative in Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Business‑Virtue Governance Analysis Based on Policy Texts
No full textIn multi-scenario corporate deployments, generative artificial intelligence is frequently packaged as an “AI colleague/assistant”. While such framing can increase collaboration efficiency, it may also trigger responsibility diffusion, weaken prudential judgment, and erode organizational integrity. Grounded in virtue ethics and the concept of organizational virtue, this study employs policy analysis and qualitative content analysis to code and compare China’s relevant governance texts with international frameworks including UNESCO, OECD, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF), and the EU AI Act. We examine how institutional mechanisms—transparent notice, human oversight, risk assessment, and traceable remedies—are institutionalized to promote prudence, responsibility, and fairness. We find that policies generally emphasize “controllability, accountability, and noticeability/explainability”, yet devote insufficient attention to attributional shifts caused by anthropomorphic narratives. We therefore recommend incorporating anthropomorphic-design risks into risk-assessment checklists, strengthening cues that reinforce human ultimate responsibility and internal accountability matrices, and refining requirements for transparency and uncertainty communication in conversational systems
When a Foul is Not a Foul: Strategic Fouling and the Creativity of Self-Limitation
No full textStrategic fouls can be defined as deliberate rule violations undertaken for tactical advantage in circumstances where sanction is anticipated and treated as a cost of action. They are distinguished from cheating not by moral innocence but by their structural relation to enforcement. Whereas cheating depends upon clandestine evasion, the strategic foul remains intelligible, and can still ‘work’, even when detected and punished, precisely because it presupposes the continuing authority of the rule-system it exploits. This article examines the phenomenon of strategic fouling by offering a critical analysis of its moral, regulatory, and psychoanalytic dimensions. In particular, it explores how such actions are embedded within the logic of competitive play, revealing a tacit legitimacy, despite their formal illegality. Drawing on the work of J.S. Russell, the article situates strategic fouling within a broader category of tolerated transgression, which, enhances, rather than undermines, the experience of play. Coupled with a psychoanalytic perspective, it is argued that strategic fouls exemplify the creative potential of self-limitation. That is, rules and constraints do not inhibit freedom but serve as conditions for inventive action and ethical deliberation. With regard to relevant examples, such as Luis Suárez’s 2010 handball, the article concludes that strategic fouling reveals sport as a site of moral ambiguity and creative agency, where the subject confronts and constitutes itself through the contradictions of rule-bound play
Autonomy and Heterarchy: Organizing Control in Biological Organisms
No full textIn order to maintain themselves as systems far from equilibrium with their environment, organisms must control the operation of numerous production mechanisms. Control involves mechanisms that make or are responsive to measurements of conditions within or in the environment of the organism and that operate on flexible constraints in other mechanisms to adjust their operation. A frequent assumption of humans is that control mechanisms are organized in a hierarchical pyramid. However, control in biological organisms commonly deviates from several principles of hierarchical organization and is better characterized as organized heterarchically. To provide a positive understanding of autonomy, this paper advances several features of its heterarchical organization and illustrates them using control of glucose regulation in mammals as an exemplar
Bloomsbury Handbook of Émilie Du Châtelet
No full textThis volume brings together new work on Émilie Du Châtelet that highlights the depth, range, and systematic nature of her philosophical thought. Spanning metaphysics, physics, theology, mathematics, ethics, and biblical interpretation, these chapters collectively reveal Du Châtelet as a unified and original thinker whose work demands recognition alongside early modern rationalists such as Leibniz and Spinoza. A central thread running through the volume is Du Châtelet’s commitment to the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which anchors her rationalist metaphysics, underwrites her theory of knowledge, and guides her methodological and theological critiques. The contributions explore Du Châtelet’s epistemology of space, her theory of liberty, her metaphysics of fire and mathematical objects, and her relation to Newtonian science. Several chapters emphasize her independence from major influences such as Leibniz and Wolff. Others expand the scope of her legacy—whether by situating her as a paradigm-establishing figure in early mechanics or by connecting her theological and moral views to her broader philosophical commitments. The volume also reflects a methodological richness: it draws on historical, textual, and conceptual resources, and brings together scholars at various career stages. Together, these chapters move Du Châtelet scholarship into a new phase—one that takes seriously the unity and ambition of Du Châtelet’s thought, and that recognizes in her rationalism not merely an inheritance from others, but a distinct and consistently articulated vision of the nature of reason, knowledge, and the world
Engineering Existence?
No full textThis paper investigates the connection between two recent trends in philosophy: higher-orderism and conceptual engineering. Higher-orderists use higher-order quantifiers (in particular quantifiers binding variables that occupy the syntactic positions of predicates) to express certain key metaphysical doctrines, such as the claim that there are properties. I argue that, on a natural construal, the higher-orderist approach involves an engineering project concerning, among others, the concept of existence. I distinguish between a modest construal of this project, on which it aims at engineering higher-order analogues of the familiar notion of first-order existence, and an ambitious construal, on which it additionally aims at engineering a broadened notion of existence that subsumes first-order and higher-order existence. After identifying a substantial problem for the ambitious project, I investigate a possible response which is based on adopting a cumulative type theory as the background higher-order logic. While effective against the problem at hand, this strategy turns out to undermine a major reason to embrace higher-orderism in the first place, namely the idea that higher-orderism dissolves a range of otherwise intractable debates in metaphysics. Higher-orderists are therefore best advised to pursue their engineering project on the modest variant and against the background of standard type theory
象形类比与宇宙同构——中国传统人居文化的哲学认知逻辑
No full text摘要：中国传统“风水”文化的底层认知，并非封建迷信的主观臆断，而是建立在“天人
合一”宇宙观基础上的象形类比哲学体系。本文以《周易》“同声相应、同气相求”的核
心思想为理论根基，结合《葬书》《青囊经》等古籍文献，从“宇宙-人体-建筑”的同构
关系切入，系统解构传统人居中“门、主、灶”的空间隐喻、阴宅分房布局的人伦编码及
“路冲”等禁忌的认知本质。研究表明，传统人居文化中的各类原则，本质是古人通过象
形类比思维，将宇宙秩序、人体结构与空间形态建立关联的理性认知成果，其核心是
追求“人-空间-宇宙”的和谐共生。这种认知逻辑既体现了中华文明“近取诸身，远取诸
物”的认知智慧，也为当代人居环境的生态化、人性化设计提供了哲学层面的理论支
撑。本文通过古籍文献考据与跨学科阐释，彻底剥离传统人居文化的迷信外衣，揭示
其作为中国古代空间认知哲学的科学内核与当代价值
Decolonizing Language and Ethnic-Racial Relationships in Brazilian Portuguese Teaching
No full textBased on the discussion on the monolingualism of the other undertaken by Derrida and the notions of decolonization, coloniality, decoloniality, zone of non-being and the abyssal line found in Fanon, Quijano, Mignolo and Sousa Santos, this work brings in its textual body the concept of device linguistic-racial, present here as a means to reflect on the relationship between the teaching of Brazilian Portuguese and ethnic-racial relations, and as a means to think about the decolonization of the language in a country like Brazil, whose European colonialism was able to ruin black and indigenous bodies by imposing on them, using indefensible violence, “an existential deviation” (Fanon, 2008, p.30). For this reason, the idea of universal ethics and the notion of love evoked by Freire, patron of Brazilian education, are revisited, bearing in mind that there cannot be social justice if there is no epistemological justice, as Boaventura de Sousa Santos thinks
Processual Pessimism. On the Nature of Cosmic Suffering and Human Nothingness
No full textProcessual Pessimism. On the Nature of Cosmic Suffering and Human Nothingness — the second part of the dilogy of the «Tragic». What is left for a person when the scale of the tragic goes beyond human life and rises to the size of the universe? When the usual explanations dissipate, and existence itself is revealed as a brief pattern of matter against a background of slow, inexorable decay?
The conclusion of the dilogy of the «Tragic» takes the study beyond the boundaries of the anthropocentric perspective. If the The Experience of the Tragic revealed the mechanisms of human suffering, then Processual Pessimism exposes the cosmological foundations of existence itself as a movement towards disintegration. Consciousness observes its own temporality, ethics is looking for a form that can withstand the knowledge of the fragility of what are considered values. The book seeks to move away from habitual pessimism and look at it through procedural ontology