VOLUME 5(1) • 2006
DESPRE MORALITATE SI NATURA LEGII
ABSTRACT. I argue that the denial of necessary connections between law and morality cannot be sustained, and I contend that many of the claims of specific necessary connections between law and morality made by legal theorists are mistaken. While these are necessary connections between morality and h..
ADEVAR SI FICTIUNE IN CRITICA LUI DAVID LEWIS ASUPRA SEMANTICII MEINONGIENE
ABSTRACT. I criticize all four of Lewis's objections to a Meinongian theory of fiction, suggesting that they can be answered or refuted, thereby blunting Lewis's charge that a Meinongian semantics is at a theoretical disadvantage in comparison with his modal story-contexting. Lewis-style modal story..
RELATII INTRE UNIVERSALII SAU LEGI DIVINE?
ABSTRACT. An explanation in terms of the agency of God has the unique property of being such that if it is true, it cannot itself be explained further. There could not be a more ultimate cause of the existence of an everlasting omnipotent being; for if there is such a being any causes can operate on..
NO DANCING IN THE CHINESE ROOM: CHALMERS AND SEARLE
ABSTRACT. In this paper I argue that David Chalmers' argument against John Searle concerning the sorts of physical systems in which consciousness can emerge is a new version of an old objection-one that has already been convincingly responded to by Searle-namely, the "brain-simulator" objection. Mor..
HOW LONG BEFORE SUPERINTELLIGENCE?
ABSTRACT. This paper outlines the case for believing that we will have superhuman artificial intelligence within the first third of the next century. It looks at different estimates of the processing power of the human brain; how long it will take until computer hardware achieve a similar performanc..