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Last checked: June 8, 2026

ConferenceEvent: May 21, 2026

Knowledge Without Comprehension? On Spirit after Hegel in the Age of AI

Munich School for Philosophy / Dominik Finkelde SJ — HegelPd

Event page

HegelPd announced the Munich conference Knowledge Without Comprehension? On Spirit after Hegel in the Age of AI, held May 21-23, 2026 in honor of Slavoj Žižek. The program includes sessions on synthetic spirit, algorithmic rationality, digital capitalism, alienation, normativity, ideology, inhuman subjectivity, and AI subjectivity.

Journal articleJanuary 22, 2026

The Hegel Test

Anders Bartonek — Philosophy & Social Criticism

Publisher

Bartonek proposes a Hegelian alternative to performance-based tests of machine intelligence. The paper builds its criteria from recognition, labour-mediated relation to nature, and sublation rather than from imitation alone.

Journal articleDecember 18, 2025

Prompt, Negate, Repeat: A Hegelian Meditation on AI

Dwayne Woods — AI & SOCIETY

Journal article

Dwayne Woods develops a Hegelian reading of AI by shifting the question from whether machines possess inner consciousness to whether they can participate in dialectical movement, negation, and conceptual determinacy. The article appears in AI & SOCIETY volume 41 in 2026 after online publication in December 2025.

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