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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... understands what he hears , and what he understands is in his understanding ; although he does not understand it to exist . For , it is one thing for an object to be in the understanding , and another to understand that the object ...
... understands what he hears , and what he understands is in his understanding ; although he does not understand it to exist . For , it is one thing for an object to be in the understanding , and another to understand that the object ...
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... understand nothing . 2. As regards the second claim , that the program explains human understanding , we can see that the computer and its program do not provide sufficient conditions of understanding since the computer and the program ...
... understand nothing . 2. As regards the second claim , that the program explains human understanding , we can see that the computer and its program do not provide sufficient conditions of understanding since the computer and the program ...
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... understands in- structions " from its photoelectric cell is not at all the sense in which I understand English . If the sense in which Schank's programmed computers understand stories is supposed to be the metaphor- ical sense in which ...
... understands in- structions " from its photoelectric cell is not at all the sense in which I understand English . If the sense in which Schank's programmed computers understand stories is supposed to be the metaphor- ical sense in which ...
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The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
Copyright | |
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