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Thursday, 4 June 2015

Quine's 'On What There Is' (1948)

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What is Existence? The American philosopher W.V.O. Quine (1908–2000) discussed what he called the “old Platonic riddle of non-being” (or ...
Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Umberto Eco as Philosophical Realist?

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It's strange (at least to me) that a fashionable Continental philosopher should advance what can be deemed to be a commonsensical...
Sunday, 31 May 2015

Wittgenstein on Doubt

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Ludwig Wittgenstein’s case against scepticism (or at least against global scepticism ) is simple. We can't doubt without exempt...
Monday, 25 May 2015

Functionalism Applied to Life

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Believers in Strong AI believe (to put it very simply) that if computers behave in certain ways, then they have intelligence and even m...
Thursday, 21 May 2015

Searle on Mind, Computations & Computers

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The Mind as a Computer: Syntax and Semantics The first thing you can say (in accordance with John Searle) is that when a c...
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