On the reading list for my undergrads this week:
Searle, John. "Minds, brains and programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1980) 3, 417-457.
Dennett, Daniel C. "The practical requirements for making a conscious robot". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A (1994) 349, 133-146.
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
30 March 2008
Well prepared by Mr. Wilson
05 December 2007
An important metaphysical detail, though unfortunate for the fish
G. W. Leibniz, from New System of Nature (1695):
I begin with the distinction that must be drawn between a substance and a collection, or an aggregate of several substances. When I say "me," I speak of a single substance; but an army, a herd of animals, a pond full of fish (even if it is frozen solid with all its fish) will always be a collection of several substances.
16 October 2007
Annihilated
From a letter from Gottfried Leibniz to Antoine Arnauld, dated 23 March 1690:
And subsequently I saw the letter from the Reverend Father Mabillon to one of my friends, in which it was said that the Reverend Father Le Tellier's Apology for the missionaries against the practical morality of the Jesuits had given a favourable impression of these Fathers to many, but that he had heard that you had replied to it and that it was said that you had therein geometrically annihilated this Father's arguments.
18 September 2007
Will freedom fries be served?
In my inbox this morning:
LEIBNIZ AND SPINOZA II
September 28-30, 2007
Princeton University
Sponsored by
Princeton University
Leibniz Society of North America
Ecole Normale Supérieure - Lettres et Sciences Humaines
Centre d'Hautes Etudes en Rhétorique, Philosophie et Histoire des Idées (UMR 5037)
This will be the second of two events in a Franco-American collaboration, organized by Daniel Garber (Princeton University), Pierre-François Moreau (ENS-LSH), Mark Kulstad (Rice University), and Mogens Laerke (University of Chicago). The first conference took place on March 15-17 at the Ecole Normale Supérieure—Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon.
The two conferences aim to put in place a truly international group working toward a common project. Organized around a well-defined philosophical and historiographical problem, these conferences aim to establish a forum for the comparison, confrontation, and coordination of divergent historiographical and philosophical national traditions, and thus to reinforce the relations between the scholarly communities in the U.S. and Europe.
The precise scholarly objective of these two conferences is to reevaluate the nature and the importance of the biographical, historical and philosophical relations between these two major figures in the history of philosophy.
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