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The Cartesian Political Subject
René Descartes is usually presented in the history of philosophy as a thinker who established new foundations for the European scientific project. However, the political aspect of the Cartesian method is often overlooked.
Daniil Vashkevich
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The Turing Test as a Sceptical Scenario
ABSTRACT The Turing test is usually seen as an operationalisation of the question whether machines can think. In this paper, my aim is to show that by understanding the test in this way, one ends up in scepticism about the existence of minds in general. By focusing on whether some particular machine can pass the test, or whether it can be said to be an
Marvin Tritschler
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This paper seeks to explain the epistemological bases for the two cultures and to show why this disciplinary divide continues to plague American academic culture.
Olcott, Marianina Demetri
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Roboter als Modellsysteme für aktive Materie: Abkühlungsphänomene durch Haftreibung
Die Fortschritte in der Robotik in den letzten Jahrzehnten haben die Entwicklung von Geräten ermöglicht, die lebende Organismen nachahmen und häufig für bestimmte Tätigkeiten eingesetzt werden. Für solche selbstgetriebenen Agenten spielt die Haftreibung eine zentrale Rolle.
Alexander Antonov +3 more
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Descartes the Doctor: Rationalism and Its Therapies [PDF]
During the Scientific Revolution one important gauge of the duality of reformed natural philosophical knowledge was its ability to produce a more effective medical practice.
Shapin, Steven
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Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder
ABSTRACT Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman animals. These concepts are difficult to apply because they are implicitly grounded in the special status of humans.
Steve Cooke
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Rasionalisme is assumption where mind is the only resource to overcome truth which is beyond sense. Rene Descarates found method to make realistic philosophic and logic by doubtful everyting or implementing doubtful method which mean doubtful should include all informations we have.
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Problems around polynomials - the good, the bad and the ugly ...
This is a list of several open problems dealing mainly with univariate polynomials.Comment: 7 pages, no ...
Shapiro, B.
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Anthromes and terrestrial carbon
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Anthony P. Walker +5 more
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Newton’s insight that “the rays are not colored” anticipated a constructivist view of perception in which physical stimuli provide input but perceptual qualities arise from neural processing. Framed by Newton’s view, early sensory psychology and modern neuroscience converged on the conclusion that color is an internally generated percept, shaped by ...
Billy R. Wooten, Billy R. Hammond
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