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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Método e justificação nas Meditações Metafísicas de Descartes

Kalagatos, 2023
A grande preocupação da epistemologia cartesiana é fundamentar a certeza da verdade de uma forma clara e distinta. Para tanto, o autor vale-se do recurso cético, para gerar verdades que sejam imunes à dúvida e possam ser consideradas como indubitáveis ...
Luis Fernando biasoli
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Did Ryle criticize Descartes after all? [PDF]

Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
Many researchers, including contemporary ones, disagree on the question of whether Gilbert Ryle actually criticized the works of René Descartes in his book The Concept of Mind (1949).
S. A. Fedorov
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Animal Logic: Locke and the Nature of Inference

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can animals reason? If so, what would their reasoning consist in, and how, if at all, would it differ from its human counterpart? On these questions, John Locke stakes out a position that also merits consideration today. I argue that, for Locke, reasoning is a matter of the subject's construing her mental states as support for a conclusion ...
Walter Ott
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Emotional Care, Emotionless Decisions

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
Danilo Buonsenso
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A new Anthropocene aesthetics: Mediating Harman, Morton, and Boysen

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Practitioners of Object‐Oriented Ontology (OOO) have critiqued the metaphysical assumptions of contemporary poetry, and particularly the position of the lyric speaker. Scholars such as Graham Harman and Timothy Morton have positioned themselves as critics of these lyric sensibilities. In recent years, concerns have risen around their critiques
Chase Cate
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Miti e immagini cartesiane

Noctua
Recent historiography has shown that Descartes remains a prominent figure in philosophical discourse and that a multitude of prejudices have arisen around his persona, which have contributed over time to the creation of an often stereotyped and, in some ...
Siegrid Agostini
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Being and enjoyment: from Descartes’ subject of cogito to Sade’s subject of imago

Sententiae, 2016
The article studies the enlightemently shift in the interpretation of enjoyment, which led to the construction of a particular ethos/nomos enjoyment and transformation in the model of being/thinking.
Oleh Perepelytsia
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Contingent Grounding Physicalism

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is widely held that physicalism is incompatible with the metaphysical possibility of zombies, i.e., beings physically just like us yet lacking in phenomenal consciousness. The present paper argues that this orthodoxy is mistaken. As against the received wisdom, physicalism is perfectly compatible with the possibility of zombies and zombie ...
Alex Moran
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