Victor J. Krebs

Victor J. Krebs
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  • Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
  • Full professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

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Introduction
Victor J. Krebs currently works at the Department of Humanities, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Victor does research in Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Language and Aesthetics. His current project (with Richard Frankel) is 'Human Virtuality and Digital Life. Philosophical and Psychoanalytical Investigations', (forthcoming with Routledge, 2020 .
Current institution
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Current position
  • Full professor
Additional affiliations
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Position
  • Managing Director
January 1993 - March 2004
Simón Bolívar University
Position
  • Jefe del departamento, editor de la Revista venezolana de filosofía

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Publications (49)
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This article explores one way of understanding how digital media are affecting our ability to distinguish reality from fantasy, by reading Bernard Stiegler’s diagnosis of our current cultural crisis, alongside Wilfred Bion’s dream theory. The central claim of the paper is that we can understand the technological pharmakon¬, its both poisonous and t...
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With the advent of ‘the virtual world,’ we have naturally gauged the ‘reality’ of the virtual in terms of how close it comes to empirical experience. However, the common association of the virtual to simulation depends on a representational dualism that reduces it to a simulacrum of reality and prevents us from seeing its real import. Virtuality, r...
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Conjunto de ponencias del evento organizado por el Centro de Estudios Filosóficos de la PUCP bajo el título de ¿Por qué leer filosofía hoy? en las que se resalta la actualidad de los pensadores más importantes de la humanidad. Los textos de este libro fueron presentados en un ciclo de conferencias que organizó el Centro de Estudios Filosóficos de l...
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In 1969 Stanley Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? revolutionized philosophy of ordinary language, aesthetics, ethics, tragedy, literature, music, art criticism, and modernism. This volume of new essays offers a multi-faceted exploration of Cavell's first and most important book, fifty years after its publication. The key subjects which animate Cav...
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Este artículo trata sobre (i) nuestra resistencia tradicional al sentimiento com constitutivo de la tarea filosófica y (ii) sobre el poder de la estética para permitir la ética. Se afirma que el sentimiento es necesario para el significado y el valor. Se argumenta, además, que la experiencia estética, y la estética en general, tienen el poder de de...
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Este libro compila 28 charlas organizadas por la Fundación Telefónica y “La Caixa” Foundation a lo largo de cinco años y ofrecidas por expertos peruanos y extranjeros en torno a temas diversos como la ciudadanía digital, los videojuegos, las series de televisión, los robots, los medios sociales, los nuevos entornos laborales, el big data y el uso d...
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During the month of November 1998, Stanley Cavell visited Caracas, Venezuela, invited by the Museum of Fine Arts and the philosophy department of Simon Bolivar University, to hold a three-day seminar on art and philosophy. During those days, Cavell presented and commented on the films Jean Dillman, by Chantal Ackerman and Sans Soleil by Chris Marke...
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In this paper we reflect on two lessons culled from Cavell's work on the ontology and the psychology of film to propose an extension to our exploration of the significance of digital images in the virtual world
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Resumen: Tanto Derrida como Deleuze concuerdan en que con el advenimiento de la imagen en movimiento y el arte del cine, necesitamos articular una nueva ontología o –en palabras de Wittgenstein–, una nueva gramática. Derrida sugiere por lo menos esto, cuando reflexiona sobre lo que llama el retorno de los fantasmas, que él atribuye al advenimiento...
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This book presents a wide range of thinking about how the discipline of philosophy has engaged and might in the future engage with the profound questions raised by rapidly shifting methods of communication. Although social media and telecommunications have dramatically altered the daily lives of people, and no technology has enjoyed the same rapid...
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Before we can assess the impact of the digital revolution on our conception of psychic work, the author argues, we need to understand how the new spatio-temporal coordinates instituted by the Digital Revolution demand a revisioning of our conceptions of objectivity, subjectivity, and intersubjectivity. The melancholic dimension and the narcissistic...
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El cine es uno de los mayores inventos de nuestra época y hoy más que nunca juega un papel crucial como forma de conocimiento. Víctor J. Krebs, filósofo y catedrático de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, reflexiona sobre el mito de la caverna de Platón y la interpretación que se le puede dar al cine en la historia del pensamiento humano.
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Seeing Wittgenstein Anew is a collection which examines Ludwig Wittgenstein's remarks on the concept of aspect-seeing, showing that it was not simply one more topic of investigation in Wittgenstein's later writings but rather a pervasive and guiding concept in his efforts to turn philosophy's attention to the actual conditions of our common life in...
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When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primaeval chaos and feel at home there. (CV 65b)From the very beginning of his philosophical work, Wittgenstein was concerned with “seeing.” The Tractatus' purpose, for example, was to change our perspective in order to dissolve philosophical problems and to bring us, as Wittgenstein himself puts...
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Seeing Wittgenstein Anew is the first collection to examine Ludwig Wittgenstein’s remarks on the concept of aspect-seeing. These essays show that aspect–seeing was not simply one more topic of investigation in Wittgenstein’s later writings, but, rather, that it was a pervasive and guiding concept in his efforts to turn philosophy’s attention to the...
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"Principle of charity or hybris?" Wittgenstein's insight that linguistic meaning is constituted within the fabric of life seems to bridge the gap between the continental hermeneutic tradition and analytical philosophy of language. This article sustains that such an intuition ought to be accompanied by a revision of the human subject concept implici...
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Este conjunto de ensayos muestra que la actitud “moderna” de velar la corporalidad, de hacer el lenguaje puro “instrumento”, de concebir el conocimiento sólo como conocimiento intelectual, de rechazar la sensibilidad y de sobrevalorar la generalidad sigue presente en nuestra época. Krebs nos dice, con Wittgenstein, que la filosofía, al identificars...
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La comunidad de los kogi, presuntamente la última y más completa civilización sobreviviente de la América precolombina, recluida en los Andes colombianos y enraizada en su pasado arcaico, ha permanecido intacta y distante del mundo civilizado por casi 500 años. Pero aproximadamente hace diez años decidieron hablarnos a través del autor de un libro...
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L'A. defend la these selon laquelle la conception de la nature des problemes philosophiques resulte chez Wittgenstein de sa conception de l'origine animale et corporelle du langage qui sous-tend l'ensemble de son oeuvre posthume. Examinant la nature expressive des mots, l'A. degage le corps subtil du langage en termes de desir inscrit dans l'experi...
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Este artículo desarrolla la idea que subyace a la obra filosófica de Wittgenstein, por lo menos desde las Investigaciones, del lenguaje como “algo animal” y de nuestras palabras como principalmente expresivas. A partir de esta idea, se propone empezar a mostrar cómo los problemas filosóficos son para él, en última instancia, producto de una descone...
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Prestándole especial atención a sus reflexiones en tomo a la estética, en este artículo se sostiene que Wittgenstein, en su última obra, lejos de rechazar la cuestión de lo trascendente de su discurso filosólico como usualmente se lo lee, intenta más bien recuperar y darle un nuevo sentido a esa problemática, respondiendo así a una necesidad real d...
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I intend to motivate discussion on the ways of thought in art and philosophy in terms of a problem characteristic of contemporary culture diagnosed by Plato as the "loss of memory." He referred to the impoverishment of knowledge caused by an exclusive and excessive interest in information as well as by the loss of value in reflection. I examine the...
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I show that the latter Wittgenstein's treatment of language and the mind results in a conception of the human subject that goes against the exclusive emphasis on the cognitive that characterizes our modern conception of knowledge and the self. For Wittgenstein, our identification with the cognitive ego is tantamount to a blindness to our own nature...
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Este volumen recoge artículos sobre la filosofía de Ludwig Wittgenstein que fueron escritos con ocasión de los cincuenta años de su muerte. Los textos son versiones revisadas de las ponencias que fueron presentadas en el encuentro internacional «Wittgenst si

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