Platone: The Timaeus There is nothing easy about the Timaeus. Its length, limited dramatic discourse, and arid subject-matter make for a dense and menacing work. But make no mistake, it is a menacing work of great subtly and depth. Cosmology has traditionally received the bulk of scholarly attention. No less important, Tuttavia, are the dialogue’s narrative elements, beginning with its characters. Socrates needs no introduction,

Chinese Room Argument The Chinese room argument is a thought experiment of John Searle. It is one of the best known and widely credited counters to claims of artificial intelligence (AI), questo è, to claims that computers do or at least can (or someday might) pensare. According to Searle’s original presentation, the argument is based on two key claims: brains cause minds and syntax doesn’t suffice

Prescienza e libero arbitrio Supponiamo che fosse noto, da qualcun altro, cosa sceglierai di fare domani. Ciò non implicherebbe che domani dovrai fare ciò che si sapeva in anticipo che avresti fatto?? Nonostante la tua deliberazione e pianificazione, alla fine, tutto è inutile: devi scegliere esattamente come si sapeva in precedenza che avresti fatto. Il presunto

Ethics and Care-Worker Migration Cited as one of the most pressing issues of our times, health care worker migration is now occurring at unprecedented rates. In the post-colonial era, as many developing countries began to develop and expand their health services and to educate their citizens to staff them, more educated workers left for wealthier countries, often those of the colonists or ones that shared

Contrary-to-Duty Paradox A contrary-to-duty obligation is an obligation telling us what ought to be the case if something that is wrong is true. Per esempio: ‘If you have done something bad, you should make amends’. Doing something bad is wrong, but if it is true that you did do something bad, it ought to be the case that you make amends. Here are some other

Antoine Arnauld (1612—1694) Antoine Arnauld was considered by his peers as one of the preeminent 17th century European intellectuals. Arnauld had been remembered primarily as a correspondent of René Descartes, Gottfried Leibniz and Nicolas Malebranche, and as a dogmatic and uncritical Cartesian who made few if any philosophical contributions. Infatti, as much newer research suggests, Arnauld was not a dogmatic and uncritical Cartesian, e