The Dutch proposal is different to the law in Belgium. In 2014, Belgium removed a lower age limit for accessing voluntary euthanasia. In a study commissioned by the Dutch health ministry and released in 2019, researchers investigated the deaths of…
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[2] Taddeo, M. Modelling Trust in Artificial Agents, A First Step Toward the Analysis of e-Trust. Minds & Machines 20, 243–257 (2010) One possible answer is that we cannot. This could be true in two senses. We could simply say that we…
To end up with some closing remarks, I hope Thinking in Images provokes thinking and gives new topics to the discussion (not necessarily in images). That is the only thing a philosopher can wish for. And yet, although the structural…
Vernazzani, A. (2023). “How Artworks Modify Our Perception of the World” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 22, pp. 417-438. (2) One challenge against any theory of imagistic thinking is that images allegedly lack a logical structure and hence “cannot be…
The police use a negative framing, but there is something positive in this potential for catharsis that can help so many see past the doom and gloom. It can turn an outpouring of pain into a bottling of strength because…
In his book Thinking with images, Kozak starts from the assumption that any theory of thinking must face three challenges: the epistemological, the semantical, and the metaphysical. So, the book can be seen as an intent to develop a theory…
The term “coincidence” covers a wide range of phenomena, from the cosmic (in a total solar eclipse, the disc of the moon and the disc of the sun, by sheer chance, appear to have precisely the same diameter) to the…
In his Thinking in Images (Bloomsbury 2023), Piotr Kozak defends the view that thinking in images in possible. The main arguments against the idea that one can think in images are two-fold. The first argument is that images are only…
Bennett, M., Hacker, P. (2003). Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience. Oxford: Blackwell. Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2002). Mental Imagery: In search of a theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 157-182. Let me start with a couple of examples. Look at the night…
Now, in addition to these issues I want to highlight a new one. As AIs, like ChatGPT, become more ubiquitous, people might commit a fallacy that we can call The-AI-Knows-Something Fallacy: Anything that the AI tells you must be true…
It is very difficult to define consciousness. Sam Harris (quoting the philosopher Thomas Nagel) says that a creature is conscious if there is “something that it is like” to be this creature. It doesn’t seem that rocks have the complexity…
As has been demonstrated in the search for laws of human behavior in psychology, the way we think about ourselves can occlude self-understanding. Indeed, the choice of a description or a metaphor depends on what one is trying to explain…
The ethical quandary at the core of how we represent the mind in practical uses of psychology is the technology of agency. The biomedical and psychodynamic (i.e., discursive) approaches are “two different ways to identify, understand, and respond to mental…
