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Autor:
John-Michael Kuczynski
Publikováno v:
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, Vol 09, Iss 1-2, Pp 111-124 (2005)
Alan Turing advocated a kind of functionalism: A machine M is a thinker provided that it responds in certain ways to certain inputs. Davidson argues that Turing’s functionalism is inconsistent with a cer-tain kind of epistemic externalism, and is t
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https://doaj.org/article/7a606c74f32c49d4a73f56df764040c3
Autor:
John-Michael Kuczynski
Publikováno v:
Philosophia Scientiæ, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 83-126 (2005)
Ordinarily counterfactuals are seen as making statements about states of affairs, albeit ones that hold in merely possible or alternative worlds. Thus analyzed, nearly all counterfactuals turn out to be incoherent. Any counterfactual, thus analyzed,
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https://doaj.org/article/790ebbf3f80f46e791300a745cc15829
Publikováno v:
Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie. 65(3)
Four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT), or dynamic CT, is an emerging modality with a wealth of orthopedic applications for both clinical practice and research. This technology creates CT volumes of a moving structure at multiple time points to
Autor:
John-Michael Kuczynski
Publikováno v:
Kriterion, Vol 45, Iss 109, Pp 81-135 (2004)
If the mental can affect, or be affected by, the physical, then the mental must itself be physical. Otherwise the physical world would not be explanatorily closed. But it is closed. There are reasons to hold that materialism (in both its reductive an
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https://doaj.org/article/c7bb1b7749b649cdb8ff283b152a54a0
Autor:
John-Michael Kuczynski
Publikováno v:
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, Vol 08, Iss 1, Pp 119-154 (2004)
This paper shows that Russell’s theory of descriptions gives the wrong se-mantics for definite descriptions occurring in questions and imperatives. Depending on how that theory is applied, it either assigns nonsense to per-fectly meaningful questio
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/276a9a71ab0343bd822e0823398efcf3
Autor:
John-Michael Kuczynski
Publikováno v:
Kriterion, Vol 1, Iss se (2006)
If the mental can affect, or be affected by, the physical, then the mental must itself be physical. Otherwise the physical world would not be explanatorily closed. But it is closed. There are reasons to hold that materialism (in both its reductive an
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/63ab6aa7b10940ad9f081fbf49b4ea24
Autor:
John-Michael Kuczynski
Publikováno v:
Philosophical Inquiry. 37:51-61
Autor:
John-Michael Kuczynski
Publikováno v:
Journal of Pragmatics. 42:2836-2844
In a recent paper, Andrzej Boguslawski has put forth some powerful reasons to reject some orthodoxies concerning the literal meanings of “some”, “all”, and other quantifier. Boguslawski's paper is written for linguists, not for philosophers o
Autor:
John-Michael Kuczynski
Publikováno v:
Journal of Pragmatics. 42:2314-2346
On the basis of arguments put forth by Kripke, 1977a , Kripke, 1980 , it is widely held that one can sometimes rationally accept propositions of the form P and not-P and also that there are necessary a posteriori truths. We will find that Kripke's ar
Autor:
John-Michael Kuczynski
Publikováno v:
Journal of Pragmatics. 39:872-916
A number of philosophical and semantic analyses make essential use of the concept of a possible world. Following tradition, we will refer to this family of analyses as “possible world semantics” (PWS). The present work argues that there is no int