VOLUME 5(1-2) • 2006
ETHICAL ISSUES IN ADVANCED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
ABSTRACT. The ethical issues related to the possible future creation of machines with general intellectual capabilities far outstripping those of humans are quite distinct from any ethical problems arising in current automation and information systems. This paper surveys some of the unique ethical i..
LEARNING EXPRESSIVITY IN MUSIC PERFORMANCE AND THE LIMITS OF AUTHENTICITY
ABSTRACT. Friskin instructs pianists to remember Bach's own indicated wish for the development of a cantabile style, thus prescribing a general singing legato, along with the addition of portato for connected eighth notes in some passages. Levin remarks that in Schubert's as in Mozart's time all com..
DERRIDA, HEIDEGGER, AND THE ONTOLOGY OF THE HUMAN BEING
ABSTRACT. Derrida argues that language as a medium and as a subject of philosophy constitutes a particular charged lows of deconstruction (Golumbia). Heidegger is far removed from concerning the self as a substance or a subject (George). Hegel believes that our natural instincts should be tempered a..
TEORIE, OBSERVATIE SI REALISM STIINTIFIC
ABSTRACT. A normative constraint on theories about objects which we take to be real is explored: such theories are required to track the properties of the objects which they are theories of. Epistemic views in which observation (and generalizations of it) play a central role, and holist views which ..
ACESTITATE
ABSTRACT. It might well seem that individuals of some kinds have haecceitas or thisness, which makes them different, from other individuals of the same kind otherwise indistinguishable from them. In the first part of this paper I seek to make the notion of thisness more precise, and I then go on to ..