Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of PhilosophyJoel Feinberg, Russ Shafer-Landau The Tenth Edition of this leading, topically-organized anthology provides a superb balance of historical selections and recent material. The text covers reason and religious belief; human knowledge; mind and its place in nature; determinism; free will and responsibility; and morality and justice in five parts, with careful attention to opposing points of view. |
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Page 344
... brain as the program is to the hard- ware , and thus we can understand the mind without doing neurophysiology . If we had to know how the brain worked to do AI , we wouldn't bother with AI . However , even getting this close to the ...
... brain as the program is to the hard- ware , and thus we can understand the mind without doing neurophysiology . If we had to know how the brain worked to do AI , we wouldn't bother with AI . However , even getting this close to the ...
Page 349
... brain ; the only connection would be that the brain just happens to be one of the indefinitely many types of machines capable of instantiating the program . This form of dualism is not the traditional Cartesian variety that claims there ...
... brain ; the only connection would be that the brain just happens to be one of the indefinitely many types of machines capable of instantiating the program . This form of dualism is not the traditional Cartesian variety that claims there ...
Page 375
... brain , the phys- ical seat of his soul , resides . Nagged by confusion , I attempted to orient myself by falling back on a fa- vorite philosopher's ploy . I began naming things . " Yorick , " I said aloud to my brain , " you are my brain ...
... brain , the phys- ical seat of his soul , resides . Nagged by confusion , I attempted to orient myself by falling back on a fa- vorite philosopher's ploy . I began naming things . " Yorick , " I said aloud to my brain , " you are my brain ...
Contents
The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
Copyright | |
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