Wednesday, 11 November 2020
What is Water? A Philosophical Inquiry into Natural Kinds
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The classic case of a natural kind is water. This natural kind throws up many problems. These problems have been debated many times in — ...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
Alan Turing Believed the Question “Can machines think?” to be Meaningless
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Can machines (or computers) think? What did Alan Turing have to say to that question? Well, he believed that the question is too “meanin...
Sunday, 25 October 2020
What Do the Words “Ultimate Reality” Mean?
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Professor Peter van Inwagen Aren’t the words “ultimate reality” somewhat poetic and highfalutin? What do they mean? Just a word of warning...
Thursday, 15 October 2020
Empty “Analytic Metaphysics”: Michael Loux’s Vicious Circle of Modal Properties
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The American philosopher Michael J. Loux seems to be a master of playing games with modal terms — at least within this particular ...
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