Monthly Archives: February 2017

Robots and responsibility

Posted on February 13, 2017 by

[Another excerpt from Reality (a primer)] What worries many people about being told that the mind isn’t distinct from the body is what that might mean for human freedom and responsibility. If I create a robot that comes over and … Continue reading →

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Knowledge, that human practice

Posted on February 6, 2017 by

Ordinarily, we think knowledge is having in one’s head some kind of story or an explanation that matches how Things Really Are. This ordinary conception has at least two problems. First, it assumes that there is a way Things Really … Continue reading →

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