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Philosophies, Volume 7, Issue 6

December 2022 - 26 articles

Cover Story: Artificial intelligence is often said to be within our grasp, if not already here, and the only remaining philosophical issues are ethical questions about killer robots and robot slaves. Yet, we have no agreed test for artificial intelligence. The most famous test to date—Alan Turing’s ‘criterion for “thinking”’ in machines—states that a computer thinks if it does well in a computer-imitates-human game. To assess Turing’s test, we must remember that he also claimed that the concept of intelligence is an ‘emotional’ concept. What are the implications of this claim for his ‘criterion’? For example, are judgements about thinking machines merely subjective? (Cover image by Michael Nitsch, September 2015.) View this paper
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Articles (26)

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,560 Views
20 Pages

Taking as its point of departure the place of the vegetal realm within Jane Campion’s filmmaking, this article attends to both living and artificial plants, homing in on the exquisitely crafted paper flowers of The Power of the Dog to explore t...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,032 Views
17 Pages

Most research on Ernesto “Che” Guevara has been concerned with emphasizing his ideological Marxist commitments and anti-imperial material objectives. These scholarly concerns usually constellate recycled subjective themes highlighting the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,072 Views
17 Pages

The passage of time pertains to the dynamic happening of anticipated future events merging into a present actuality and subsequently becoming the past. Philosophers and scientists alike often endorse the view that the passage of time is an illusion....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,480 Views
21 Pages

This paper aims at tracking down, by looking at late medieval and early modern discussions over the ontological status of artifacts, the main steps of the process through which nature became theorized on a mechanistic model in the early 17th century....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,726 Views
14 Pages

Early films about plants offer a glimpse into the behavior of vegetal life, which had hitherto remained hidden from humans. Critics have praised this animistic capacity of cinema, allowing audiences to see the movement of beings that appeared to be i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15,467 Views
16 Pages

Beauvoir’s existentialist ethics relates to and informs eminently contemporary accounts of feminist ethics in the Western continental feminist canon. To date only a few scholars have emphasized this connection. In this work, I show the centrali...

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1 Citations
6,432 Views
11 Pages

Technology does change human lives, but my query is: does it change human selves too? On a closer look, it is observed that technology and the trail of human beings towards an authentic life (the highest desire) are central and pivotal to human livin...

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Philosophies - ISSN 2409-9287