Michele Pasin / Quotes

Three problems about intentionality

There are three problems about intentionality we need to address. First, how is intentionality possible at all; second, given that intentional states are possible, how is their content determined; and third, how does the whole system of intentionality work? Most of the philosophical literature is about the first two questions.

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#intentionality #philosophical-problems

Analysis (philosophy)

Students must be able to: analyse a philosophical problem or position into its component parts and be able to tell how they are connected together; analyse an…

Taking Philosophical Dialogue Online #argument #philosophical-problems #text

Neuroethics

Neuroethics refers to two related fields of study: What the philosopher Adina Roskies has called the ethics of neuroscience and the neuroscience of ethics…

Neuroethics - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia #ethics #neuroscience #philosophical-problems

Science should give us a chemistry of the moral, religious, aesthetic conceptions and feeling

Chemistry of the Notions and the Feelings.—Philosophical problems, in almost all their aspects, present themselves in the same interrogative formula now that…

Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits #things #philosophy #science #philosophical-problems

Three possible reasons why DH hasn't thrived in philosophy yet

I think three more interesting possible explanations are that (1) philosophers are more methodologically skeptical than other humanities, (2) philosophers…

Exploring The Significance Of Digital Humanities For Philosophy | Digital Scholarship In The Humanities #philosophical-problems #philosophy #humanity #philosophers #philosophical-truth

Hybrid systems escape Searle's closed world of symbols

It is the connectionist system that supplies the sensory images. By combining symbolic and connectionist systems, Harnard believes we can begin to break out…

Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) #symbol-grounding #connectionism #symbols #intentionality

Infinitely many goals explain any behavior

The problem arises because we know that we are intentional systems—our goals are somehow real because we feel like we have goals. Other people might attribute…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #intentionality #behavior #privileged-access #observer