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Monday, 10 August 2015

Advocates of Artificial Intelligence as Behaviourists

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In extremely general terms, it can said that behaviourism was a response to the Cartesian (or, even more widely, Western) philosophica...

Holisms (2) – Donald Davidson

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We have many versions of semantic holism in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of thought. Take Donald Davidson. Davi...

Holisms (1)

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We can find non-semantic holisms in various areas of philosophy. For example, here's Christopher Peacocke giving an account of what...
Thursday, 6 August 2015

Endless Extrinsic & Intrinsic Properties

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Endless Extrinsic & Intrinsic Properties The thing about extrinsic properties is that they appear to be indefinite - or even i...

Against David Lewis's Intrinsic Properties

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American philosopher David Lewis (1941–2001) wrote: “A thing has its intrinsic properties in virtue of the way that thing itself, and nothin...
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