Speakers

Alcibiades Malapi-Nelson pursued studies in philosophy and theology in Latin America, and philosophy in French Canada and Toronto. He obtained a doctorate in philosophy from York University in 2015 and published The Nature of the Machine and the Collapse of Cybernetics (Palgrave MacMillan) in 2017. After being trained in the Continental tradition, he focused on the Analytical tradition of philosophy, ending up in an area that supersedes both: Philosophy of science. Within there, he explored the consequences of using machine-based explanations in scientific theories, writing a dissertation on the philosophical reasons behind the implosion of classical cybernetics. Aware that the cybernetic mechanization of nature has resurfaced via the development of “Emerging Technologies”, he is now working on the consequences of such disruptive innovations for our understanding of what it means to be a human being. Alcibiades currently teaches at Humber College and Durham College, in the Greater Toronto Area.