Lao Sze-kwang (Lao Siguang) (1927—2012) foto per gentile concessione dell'Università Cinese di Hong Kong Le opere di Lao Sze-kwang (Lao Siguang) coprire una vasta gamma di filosofie, compreso il confucianesimo, buddismo, Daoismo, Kantismo, Hegelismo, e, soprattutto, la filosofia della cultura. Come molti altri filosofi cinesi del XX secolo, Lao fu personalmente colpito dalla rivoluzione cinese del 1949 e fece carriera al di fuori di essa

The Lucas-Penrose Argument about Gödel’s Theorem In 1961, J.R. Lucas published “Minds, Machines and Gödel,” in which he formulated a controversial anti-mechanism argument. The argument claims that Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem shows that the human mind is not a Turing machine, questo è, a computer. The argument has generated a great deal of discussion since then. The influential Computational Theory of Mind, which claims that the

Knowledge-First Theories of Justification Knowledge-first theories of justification are theories of justification that give knowledge priority when it comes to explaining when and why someone has justification for an attitude or an action. The emphasis of this article is on knowledge-first theories of justification for belief. As it turns out, there are a number of ways of giving knowledge priority when theorizing about justification, e

Il paradosso di Yablo Il paradosso di Yablo implica che non esiste un modo per assegnare in modo coerente un valore di verità a nessuna delle frasi nella sequenza numerabile infinita di frasi, ciascuno del modulo, "Tutte le frasi successive sono false." Nello specifico, il paradosso Yablo emerge quando consideriamo la seguente sequenza infinita di frasi: La sequenza di frasi di Yablo sembra paradossale nel

Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (c. 980-1037) Abu ‘Ali al-Husayn ibn Sina is better known in Europe by the Latinized name “Avicenna.” He is probably the most significant philosopher in the Islamic tradition and arguably the most influential philosopher of the pre-modern era. Born in Afshana near Bukhara in Central Asia in about 980, he is best known as a polymath, as a physician whose major work

Ge Hong (Ko Hung, 283-343 d.C.) Ge Hong was an eclectic philosopher who dedicated his life to searching for physical immortality, which he thought was attainable through alchemy. He lived during China’s tumultuous Period of Disunity (220-589 C.E.), a time in which alien conqueror regimes ruled northern China, the cradle of Chinese civilization, while a series of weak, transplanted Chinese states occupied recently colonized southern