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Sunday, 21 June 2015

E.O. Wilson’s Ethics isn't Ethics (Is isn't Ought)

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Did the biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson “derive an ought from an is”?… Or did he ignore the ought entirely? “Thus at least man comes to...
Friday, 19 June 2015

Carnap on Linguistic Frameworks (or Conceptual Schemes)

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According to Rudolph Carnap’s approach, x , y , and z can be variables of anything you want. Carnap might have simply said here tha...
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...
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