Attay Kremer

Attay Kremer is a PhD candidate in the Humanities Faculty of Tel Aviv University. His main areas of research are the philosophy of science and technology and 19th-century European philosophy. Attay's dissertation, titled "Models of Life: Materialism and the Philosophical Genealogy of the Computer", is an examination of AI, through its roots in the history of philosophy. There, he is primarily interested in the affinities and tensions between the motivations and architecture of Kant's critical philosophy and the questions concerning the foundations of mathematics that led--at the beginning of the 20th century--to the computer we are familiar with today. The main goal of this project is to help better conceptualize questions regarding AI and its relationship to Enlightenment ideals. Attay has also worked on Greek philosophy, especially Aristotle. Outside of philosophy, he has been lucky enough to conduct some research in mathematical physics, on problems in gravitation and fluid dynamics.