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.

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.

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.