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Implementing artificial consciousness

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
Implementationalism maintains that conventional, silicon‐based artificial systems are not conscious because they fail to satisfy certain substantive constraints on computational implementation. In this article, we argue that several recently proposed substantive constraints are implausible, or at least are not well‐supported, insofar as they conflate ...
Leonard Dung, Luke Kersten
wiley   +1 more source

Ameliorative projects, psychological essentialism, and the power of nouns

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
Ameliorative projects design and propagate new linguistic content for some expressions we use for political or social justice purposes. These projects are often driven by an anti‐essentialist agenda: they aim to debunk the idea that social categories such as “woman”, “man”, or “race” are constituted by natural essences.
Steffen Koch
wiley   +1 more source

Polysemy and roots: Deep versus shallow fetching

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
The paper argues for a model of polysemy based on the blueprint offered by Paul Pietroski whereby the meaning of a lexical item is an instruction to fetch a concept from an address. We show that the bare idea of fetching admits of a deep construal, where a concept is fetched, and a shallow construal, where the instruction merely links a lexical item to
John Collins, Tamara Dobler
wiley   +1 more source

Do emotions represent values and how can we tell?

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
Do emotions represent values? The dominant “content view” has it that they do. But there is a newcomer on scene: the “attitude view”. According to it, rather than representing value properties, there is a value‐relevant way you represent the targets of emotion.
Alex Grzankowski
wiley   +1 more source

A troubled inheritance: Overcoming the temporality problem in cases of historical injustice

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Renaud‐Philippe Garner, Marion Godman
wiley   +1 more source

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