by Socrates | Sep 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
How much of reality can we explain and how much just remains mysterious? Reasons and causes figure in our explanations, but what is the difference between a reason and a cause? The laws of nature figure in some of our explanations but are the laws of nature...
by Socrates | Aug 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” according to Cesar A Cruz (and more recently, Banksy) – but what is Art? Art has come to mean many different things to different people at different times throughout history. So, what do...
by Socrates | Jul 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
by Socrates | Jun 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
by Socrates | May 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
by Socrates | Apr 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
