In the last 50 years, research on artificial intelligence (AI) has repeatedly boomed but failed to deliver on its great promises. In the last decade, however, especially the deep learning approach has achieved remarkable results This eLearning-seminar will discuss epistemological, but also ethical and political aspects of these recent developments in interdisciplinary perspective.

The image plays a twofold role within philosophy: It is the subject of reflection, but also serves as an operational concept. Selected philosophical positions will be discussed, and the conceptual usefulness of the image for philosophy will be considered, from Plato, Augustine and Cusa, through Kant and Cassirer to Husserl, Bergson, Peirce and Wittgenstein.