Showing posts with label mind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mind. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Timothy Schroeder, "Donald Davidson's Theory of Mind Is Non-Normative"
Normativity requires (1) a categorization scheme, and (2) a force-maker. Davidson's interpretationist theory of mind has (1), but doesn't have (2). So Davidson's theory of mind is non-normative.
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Davidson,
interpretation,
mind,
normativity,
Schroeder
Monday, February 12, 2007
Bernard Williams, "The Self and the Future"
The idea of persons "switching bodies" is not straightforward. It is plausible to think that what is typically regarded as a case of a person switching bodies is actually a case of two persons undergoing massive psychological change.
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body,
first person,
mind,
personal identity,
point of view,
third person,
Williams
Thursday, January 25, 2007
René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
I am a thinking thing; God exists; the essence of material substance is extension; mind and body are distinct.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
John Haugeland, Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea
Introduction to the problems and prospects of GOFAI from a skeptical point of view.
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