This essay is almost entirely devoted to a single influential philosophical paper: Donald Davidson’s ‘Mental Events’ (1970). Donald David...

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  “The original question, ‘Can machines think?’, I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.”  —  Alan Turing In (vague) accordan...

It may be worth putting Barry Stroud ’s (1935–2019) critique of naturalised epistemology in some kind of context. That’s partly because thi...