Wednesday, 17 June 2015
John Searle says “it's all syntax and no semantics”
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i) Introduction ii) In Reference to Reference iii) Mental Content This is a simple introduction to the philosopher John Searle...
Saturday, 13 June 2015
Kurt Kurzweil's Systemhood Argument vs. Searle's Chinese Room Argument
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“‘When we hear it said that wireless valves think,’ [Sir Geoffrey] Jefferson said, ‘we may despair of language.’ But no cybernetician had sa...
Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Names & Essences: Ruth Marcus on Quine’s Kripke
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Saul Kripke claims that the statement “ Aristotle might not have been a philosopher.” isn't necessarily false because at oth...
Friday, 5 June 2015
Bertrand Russell’s Paradox
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What is the primary feature of Bertrand Russell’s Paradox? It's one of self-reference. Thus it's like the Liar Paradox in which...
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 ...
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