The Concept of Mind

The Concept of Mind is a 1949 book by philosopher Gilbert Ryle, in which the author argues that “mind” is “a philosophical illusion hailing chiefly from René Descartes and sustained by logical errors and ‘category mistakes’ which have...

The Legacy of Daniel Dennet

Daniel Dennett died recently on 19th April aged 82. He was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. His research centered on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary...

David Chalmers on The Singularity and AI

The upward spiral of artificial intelligence looks set to produce machines which are cleverer and more powerful than any humans. What happens when machines can themselves create super-intelligent machines? ‘The Singularity’ is the name science fiction...

On Relativism

Relativism is a family of philosophical views which deny claims to objectivity within a particular domain and assert that valuations in that domain are relative to the perspective of an observer or the context in which they are assessed. The next meeting of the...

Left Is Not Woke

Our next meeting is on 16th April 2024 starting at 7.30 pm – the location is: 34 Waldeck Road, Carrington, Nottingham NG5 2AF – we will be considering the topics rasied in Left Is Not Woke by Susan Neiman