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#intuition
Can A Robot, An Insect Or God Be Aware?: Scientific American
Still no theory of how we attribute minds
Looking at the results from these various studies, it is hard to avoid having the sense that one should be able to construct a single unified theory that explains the whole pattern of people’s intuitions. Such a theory would describe the underlying cognitive processes that lead…
Experimental philosophy: a new approach?
The study of consciousness (see here and here) has long played a crucial role in the discipline of philosophy, where facts about such intuitions form the basis for some complex and influential philosophical arguments. But, traditionally, the study of these intuitions has…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
Onishi contro intuizionismo, formalismo ed edonismo
Onishi si occupa soprattutto dell’etica. Propugna i valori di una morale individuale, discostandosi dalla tendenza generale del pensiero Meiji, incline al nazionalismo. Enfatizzando il singolo, anticipò linee dottrinali che si profilarono nella letteratura verso la fine…
Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
Philosophy
...he defined philosophy as science [gakumon], i.e. unified conceptual knowledge, more specifically the first and universal science that “reflects on the basic concepts of the particular sciences in general and constructs of them one system of knowledge.” Yet “its object of…
Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective
Irmak on the artifactual nature of software
A different approach to account for the artifactual nature of software is taken by Irmak [8], also acknowledged by Ray Turner in his recent, comprehensive entry on the philosophy of Computer Science published in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [19]. According to Irmak…