VOLUME 5(1-2) • 2006
SARTRE'S THEORY OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE EGO
ABSTRACT. Sartre argues that perceptual experience has an active dimension, in that it is a way of interacting and dealing with the world. Sartre considers our talk of character traits to refer not to present facts about a person, but to that person's past behaviour. Sartre considers action to be fr..
A HISTORY OF TRANSHUMANIST THOUGHT
ABSTRACT. If either superintelligence, or molecular nanotechnology, or uploading, or some other technology of a similarly revolutionary kind is developed, the human condition could clearly be radically transformed. Even if one believed that the probability of this happening any time soon is quite sm..
HOW MANY WITTGENSTEINS?
ABSTRACT. The paper maps out and responds to some of the main areas of disagreement over the nature of Wittgenstein's philosophy: (1) Between defenders of a "two Wittgensteins" reading (which draws a sharp distinction between early and late Wittgenstein) and the opposing "one Wittgenstein" interpret..
DE LA IDENTITATE MENTALA/FIZICA LA DUALISMUL SUBSTANTEI
ABSTRACT. Our normal understanding of ourselves which I analyze in this paper is that parts of our bodies (arms, legs, and so on) are parts of ourselves; and so we must think of whole bodies also as parts of ourselves. But, given that bodies are only contingent parts of human beings, we can think in..