Saturday, 2 August 2014
Syntax as a Basis For Language & General Intelligence
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Some say that syntax is the basis of both human intelligence and consciousness itself. Others say that language is the basis of both th...
Friday, 1 August 2014
Rationalism in the 17th Century
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What, exactly, was so wrong with reason in the post-Enlightenment era? It can easily be forgotten (especially by postmodernists) that ...
Keith Donnellan on Causal Reference
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This essay is mainly about Keith Donnellan’s paper ‘Speaking of Nothing’, and its defence of a causal theory of reference . The American phi...
Thursday, 31 July 2014
Robert R. Provine's Neo-Behaviourism?
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This short essay isn’t really about laughing. It’s about behaviourist explanations of all sorts of different human actions. It’s just that R...
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