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September 16, 2018artificial intelligence

Why Is Virtual Reality Interesting for Philosophers?

Thomas Metzinger in Frontiers in Robotics and AI. AIArtificial intelligenceCognitive scienceEpistemologyethicsmetaphysicspersonal identityphenomenologyPhilosophy of mindphilosophy of religionPolitical philosophyvirtual reality

August 20, 2018david hume

Hume the humane

Julian Baggini on Hume. Hume was always suspicious of what he called ‘enthusiasts’ and it is perhaps telling that the meaning of this word now has an unambiguously positive meaning . . . To be an enthusiast in Hume’s sense is to forget one is human and act as though one were a god, sufficient in…

July 10, 2018quine

Quine: The Limits of Knowledge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9bGk07eL8c cognitive closureEpistemologyKnowledgeOntologyPhilosophy of Languagequine

June 1, 2018bounded rationality

The Mystery of Rationality: Mind, Beliefs and Social Sciences

I have a chapter in this forthcoming book entitled “Pathologizing Ideology, Epistemic Modesty and Instrumental Rationality”. cognitive closurecomplexityEpistemologyideologyphilosophy of social sciencerationalismrationalitysituated cognitionsocial epistemology

May 19, 2018Marc Champagne

Using, not misusing, your brain organ

Marc’s latest podcast. .EpistemologyEvolutionary PsychologyJordan PetersonMarc Champagnerationalismsocial constructivism

April 20, 2018bernard williams, plato

Williams on Plato: The Invention of Philosophy

Excerpt from The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy (2007) Plato invented the subject of philosophy as we know it. He lived from 427 to 347 bc, and he is the first philosopher whose works have come down to us complete. He is also the first to have written on the full…