Computers, Cognition and Philosophy

Many of the posts on this blog have advocated looking at rationality from the perspective that there is no meaning or semantics, only proce...

Computationalism is normally seen as relating to the philosophy of mind. It could be stated simply as the view that "the human mind is...

If there are no absolute standards of truth, there can never be such a thing as a "bad" argument. The normative nature of epist...

If you create a system where "truth" is just a symbol within the system, if there is no semantics in the system and no meaning, i...

Much of the philosophy of logic, language and meaning takes a static view of the well formed formula (wff), statement or proposition. As I...

Previous posts have argued that all reasoning can be recreated by means of explicit rules that themselves are expressed in terms of a sim...

You know the Ontological Argument; an old proof for the existence of God. The modern mind finds it intuitively unsatisfying. Perhaps it is ...