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Did Saul Kripke Really Imagine Disembodied Pain?

Much has been said about the use of the imagination in philosophy. You find imaginative thought experiments all over the place…

2d ago

Did Saul Kripke Really Imagine Disembodied Pain?

2d ago

Problems With the Faithful Disciples of Wittgenstein

This essay will concentrate on a paper written by the English-American philosopher Gordon Park Baker. He is (or was) an influential…

5d ago

Problems With the Faithful Disciples of Wittgenstein

5d ago

A Few Problems with the “Magic” of Emergence and Supervenience

It’s been argued that the concepts of supervenience and emergence lack “explanatory power”. They’ve even been classed as “magic” (e.g., by…

Mar 7

A Few Problems with the “Magic” of Emergence and Supervenience

Mar 7

Is Wittgenstein’s Language Games Idea Both Conservative and Relativist?

The word “conservative” is used because if a language game (to quote Ernest Gellner) “constitutes [its] own automatic vindication”, then…

Mar 5

Is Wittgenstein’s Language Games Idea Both Conservative and Relativist?

Mar 5

The Impossibility and Possibility of Artificial Consciousness

There’s a long history of modal claims (involving possibility, impossibility, necessity, etc) about souls, minds, and, nowadays…

Mar 2

The Impossibility and Possibility of Artificial Consciousness

Mar 2

A Selective Retrospective on the Good and Bad of Logical Positivism

All philosophical movements and positions can be criticised and taken apart… All of them have been. Yet logical positivism seems to have…

Mar 1

A Selective Retrospective on the Good and Bad of Logical Positivism

Mar 1

Gilbert Ryle’s No-Nonsense Account of Ludwig Wittgenstein

The following essay is on Gilbert Ryle’s account of the life and work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, as found in the article ‘Ludwig…

Feb 27

Gilbert Ryle’s No-Nonsense Account of Ludwig Wittgenstein

Feb 27

A Selective Retrospective on Ordinary Language Philosophy

The following is an essay on various good, bad and commonplace examples of ordinary language philosophy.

Feb 15

A Selective Retrospective on Ordinary Language Philosophy

Feb 15

Are Insects and Plants Organic Machines?

This essay asks the following question: Are insects and plants organic machines? It does so in the contexts of Robert Kirk’s…

Feb 9

Are Insects and Plants Organic Machines?

Feb 9

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Artificial Consciousness: Mental Acts and Conscious States

This essay is a response to, and a commentary upon, Dieter Birnbacher’s paper ‘Artificial Consciousness’, which can also be found in the…

Feb 5

Artificial Consciousness: Mental Acts and Conscious States

Feb 5

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Paul Austin Murphy

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