At the edge of death, some people wake into sudden clarity. Terminal lucidity is one of the mind’s most baffling mysteries.
In recent literature on the metaphysics of consciousness, and in particular on the prospects of physicalism, there are two interesting strands of discussion. One strand concerns the so-called ‘thesis ...
The brain in a jar is a different inquiry than traditional questions about artificial intelligence. The brain in a jar asks whether thinking requires a thinker. The possibility of artificial ...
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A large number of women who have been the victims of sexual violence (rape or childhood sexual abuse), and whose bodies have been made into objects and have been the sites of terrible traumas and ...
In 1959, a paper appeared in The Journal of Symbolic Logic, with the unimpressive-sounding title “A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic.” A completeness theorem is a guarantee that every universal ...
An intense exchange with Marilyn Monroe sounds silly. But in a new book, Justin Smith-Ruiu is dead serious about what we might learn from altered states. An intense exchange with Marilyn Monroe sounds ...
Some books may fairly be called intimidating. They seem to attest to their own authority and almost defy the reader to question their judgments. Such a work is “The Reopening of the Western Mind” by ...
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