Sunday, 4 July 2021
Daniel Dennett’s Crude Ad Hominems — As Found in His Book, ‘Intuition Pumps’
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Some academics (or professional) philosophers have a problem with the American philosopher Daniel Dennett (1942-) because he’s a successful...
Tuesday, 29 June 2021
A Short Note on Science and Empiricism
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Not only is there empiricism within philosophy, there’s also an empiricist position towards science. Indeed some philosophers have argued ...
Monday, 28 June 2021
The Quantum World = The Mathematics
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First things first. This essay may appear to advance two mutually-contradictory positions. On the one hand, it argues that without the mat...
Saturday, 19 June 2021
Colin McGinn’s Important Paper, ‘Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?’
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Our brains are made of matter: neurons, biochemicals and other physical stuff . All these things are (as it were) “flesh and blood”. So, th...
Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Alan Turing on Intuition and Human-Machine Computation
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What is a computation ? According to Alan Turing ( writing in 1936/7 ), when it comes to human beings, a computation is the following: A com...
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