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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