You and your two fellow astronauts are on your way to Mars when you uncover a stowaway in your spaceship. His mere presence means there won’t be enough oxygen for anyone to survive the journey. You toss him out the …
Category: Philosophy
Ambient Intelligence
The most likely ways in which ambient intelligence will capture public space is via security and economic surveillance. Police forces will seek as much data on those inhabiting public spaces in the name of predicting and preventing crime or disorder. …
Cross Post: Vaccine passports: why they are good for society
If you are walking past a shallow pond and see a child drowning in it, you ought to wade in and pull the child out. This will mean getting your clothes muddy, but this is insignificant, while the death of …
CFP: 5th International Conference on Interactivity, Language & Cognition: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in the Cognitive and Language Sciences
website: http://hill.psych.uw.edu.pl/cilc5/ Organizers Topics may include but should NOT be limited to: Online: 15-19 September 2021 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2676630182426566 Wiktor Rorot mail: hill@hill.psych.uw.edu.pl For more details and submission instructions, please see our website: http://hill.psych.uw.edu.pl/cilc5/ The conference is organized by the International …
What do animals feel? Humans must follow the evidence to find out | Jonathan Birch
In a striking recent experiment, octopus expert Robyn Crook tried the same type of test on octopuses – and they passed too. Octopuses learned to avoid a chamber where they experienced a noxious stimulus (acetic acid on the skin) and …
Which animals should be considered sentient in the eyes of the law? | Jonathan Birch
Look a dog in the eye and a conscious being looks back. A being that feels hunger, thirst, warmth, cold, fear, comfort, pleasure, pain, joy. No one can seriously doubt this. The same is true of any mammal. You cannot …
A Juror’s Guide to Going Rogue
Six of the seven protestors pled not-guilty and their case recently came to trial. At the trial the defendants, representing themselves, admitted their actions but claimed it was a “necessary” and “proportionate” response to the serious injury and death being …
Forming Impressions: Expertise in Perception and Intuition (4)
This is the fourth in a series of posts about my recently published book, Forming Impressions: Expertise in Perception and Intuition (OUP, 2020). Intuition in Philosophy The negative experimental challenge to current philosophical method can be usefully organized into three …
Forming Impressions: Expertise in Perception and Intuition (3)
Part 2 of Forming Impressions develops an epistemology of experiences that manifest expertise. My approach is first to discuss the epistemology of experience in general, and then to consider the epistemic impact acquiring expertise might have on experience. Presentational Conservatism …
Akshaya Tritiya and Chandan Yatra
Sri Sri Radha Damodar, Vrindavan Sri Radharaman, Vrindavan (4) Mother Ganga descended to Earth on this day. (11) Goddess Annapoorna Devi appeared on this day. Akshaya-tritiya is an important day in Vedic culture as any donation performed for the right …