VOLUME 5(2) • 2006
BAUDRILLARD ON ILLUSION AND REALITY
ABSTRACT. Baudrillard maintains that simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. Baudrillard writes that the hypothesis of objective reality exerts such a hold on our minds only because it is by far the easiest solution. Baudrillard says that we are all gamblers ..
GAME THEORY AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES
ABSTRACT. According to MacKenzie and Wicker, game theory is a set of tools developed to model interactions between agents with conflicting interests. Mahajan et al. apply techniques from game theory to help formulate and analyze solutions to two systems problems: discouraging selfishness in multi-ho..
DUMMETT AND THE PARADOXICAL CHARACTER OF LANGUAGE
ABSTRACT. Dummett contends that he wants to arrive at a model of the proper form of a theory of meaning in which our understanding of our language consists. Dummett asserts that the whole difficulty arises from the principle that the reference of an expression must be determined from its sense alone..
WHITEHEAD, QUANTUM MECHANICS, AND PROCESS PHYSICS
ABSTRACT. Stapp contends that a core issue for both Whiteheadian process and quantum process is the emergence of the discrete from the continuous. The Whiteheadian approach, according to Malin, is uniquely appropriate as a metaphysical system that can encompass the findings of quantum physics. The c..
DAVIDSON'S COHERENTISM
ABSTRACT. Davidson claims that nothing can count as a reason for holding a belief except another belief. Gluer argues that Davidson shifts the focus of attention from the concept of a language to that of communication by language. Davidson suggests that the existence of lawlike statements in physica..
MCDOWELL ON MIND, WORLD, AND REALITY
ABSTRACT. McDowell contends that in experience one finds oneself saddled with content. One's epistemic standing on some question cannot intelligibly be constituted by matters blankly external to how it is with one subjectively. Silverberg argues that McDowell is not a substance dualist who claims th..
BAUDRILLARD AND THE HYPER-REALITY OF SIMULATION
ABSTRACT. Baudrillard states that the violence of globalization involves architecture (the violence protest against it involves the destruction of that architecture). According to Baudrillard, what science senses now is a possible reversibility of physical laws, not some ultra-formula or meta-equati..
EXISTA INCA UN SENS IN CARE MATEMATICA POATE AVEA FUNDAMENTE? (II)
ABSTRACT. An analysis of traditional mathematical proof is undertaken, with an implicit contrast to formal derivations. The semantic interpretation of mathematical terms plays a role in the former that doesn't appear in the latter. This semantic interpretation, with an accompanying role for intuitio..
ANTIREDUCTIONISMUL LUI SEARLE
ABSTRACT. Ontological reduction is by no means trivial, but a significant project in contemporary philosophy of mind. If reductionism is to succeed, it must meet a substantive burden of proof to show that psychological phenomena are reducible in the sense of being nothing but or fully satisfactorily..
INCORPORAREA DE CATRE LEGE
ABSTRACT. The incorporation thesis claims that moral standards turn into law simply because of their incorporation. It seems to lack the resources to distinguish between law directing us and the courts to follow some foreign law, or to obey the rules of some associations, etc., and the incorporation..
WHAT IS A SINGLETON?
ABSTRACT. This paper introduces the concept of a "singleton" and suggests that this concept is useful for formulating and analyzing possible scenarios for the future of humanity. Singletons could be good, bad, or neutral. One reason for favoring the development of a singleton (of a good type) is tha..
SIMPLITATEA CA DOVADA A ADEVARULUI
ABSTRACT. I seek in this essay to show that - other things being equal - the simplest hypothesis proposed as an explanation of phenomena is more likely to be the true one than is any other available hypothesis, that its predictions are more likely to be true than are those of any other available hyp..