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An untidy history of AI across four books

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111 points ewf | 2 comments | 19 Sep 25 18:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.407s | source
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kouru225 ◴[19 Sep 25 19:13 UTC] No.45305288[source]▶
Ok so what is this publication? Because apparently they’ve been around since the 90s. I’ve never heard of them though. Their title and its reference suggests a very strong philosophical stance about something and I imagine that because of that they have political leanings, but I can’t tell what their leanings are
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1. FungalRaincloud ◴[19 Sep 25 19:45 UTC] No.45305679[source]▶
The Hedgehog Review? Yes, they've been around since 1999, and publish a few times a year. But I'm not sure where you're leaping to a strong political leaning. They're an academic journal published by the University of Virginia. I don't religiously follow them, but I've been cursorily aware of them for a while. I don't think I've ever considered them to lean one way or another when reading their publications.
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2. jayers ◴[19 Sep 25 21:32 UTC] No.45306901[source]▶
They don't have any political leanings but they do have a philosophical project. If you dig into the site a little you'll find that they're published by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (housed at UVA) and IASC exists to promote research into the contradictions of modernity, by examining how culture manifests itself in metaphor, symbol, ideals, principles, institutions, and material objects [1]. I've been a reader of THR for a few years and I'd say generally they publish articles that promote moral realism and humanism. They're sort of metaphysically open-minded.

[1]: https://iasculture.org/about/vision