Immanuel Kant is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the modern era. In his work, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic (full text), which is based upon and contains selections from his work, A Critique of Pure Reason, Kant argues that he has discovered a means by which one can escape the […]
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Samuel Butler’s speculation (in Erewhon‘s Book of the Machines) that machines could eventually develop consciousness was something of a joke, but the debate on robot consciousness has developed into a major issue in philosophy of mind, psychology, and neuroscience, as well as becoming a huge pop-culture phenomenon. The Matrix details robots taking over the world;
An Argument Against Qualia (and some stuff about Robots and Consciousness, too!) Read More »
On What There Is: Quine’s Theory of Ontology and Position on Universals A universal describes a member of a class of mind-independent entities in reality that is not a particular thing, but an attribute, relation, etc. The realist position on universals posits that individuals share attributes with other individuals and that this commonality is manifested
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