The Philosophy Discussion Forum

"This is good stuff. We should introduce the Burger as the new unit of academic value." It's been used since the 1970's as a unit of entertainment value by a rock group. I included it for those who like their philosophy leavened. I wrote the book for those who like philosophy respected or ...

I regret to announce that I’ve written a book. It takes the idea of philosophy of science seriously, and expects other scientists to do so too. Which they haven’t until now. I show how historical sciences can give very different results when you do philosophy right. Readers are told they can skip th...

I believed for some time that Searle’s Chinese Room argument claimed that for a system to be able to do something it must contain some subcomponent that could do the whole task itself. Then I heard Marvin Minsky say it. I hadn’t told him, and I doubt if he’d take my advice anyway so that’s two of us...