Philosophical Fallibilism

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[1] Another important thesis of Gubrud's post is that the Kurzweil/Moravec theory that the self is constituted by an abstract pattern th...

The article is now up on the IEET website, HERE . (A PDF version can be found here .) Footnotes: [1] Cognitive enhancements have the potenti...

[This is a revised version of an article previously published on the Institute of Ethics and Emerging Technology website.] Basic research is...

Posthumans are future beings who greatly exceed, in terms of their basic capacities, what present-day humans are capable of, with respect to...

New post up on the IEET website entitled " If Only We Were Smarter! " Has received far more hits than expected. Maybe the counter...

Technology and Human Evolution Why technology in the first place? The answer, anthropologically and philosophically, revolves around humans ...

Here is my experience with Conservapedia.com . The page on " atheism and beliefs " states the following: --------------------...

"I am making a nuclear weapon. I really don't see a problem with this because, like most other members of the NRA, I hold a neutral...

I was thinking about Intelligent Design the other day when I was suddenly interrupted by the hiccups. I then got a cramp in my leg, my foot ...

Just published HERE in the Journal of Evolution and Technology .

"We [humans] are qualitative geniuses, but quantitative imbeciles. Computers are just the opposite." -- paraphrasing Christopher C...

Part 1 . Many Christians believe that Jesus was both fully human and fully divine. Is this a coherent doctrine, though? Consider this argum...

New link to an old song HERE . Who can make a music video for it?

The Const ruction of Nic hes and O rganisms, Techne

Forthcoming in American Atheist magazine. The Christian Cave of Shadows

Saying that some theory or idea X is complicated -- too complicated to explain at the moment, for example -- can mean two possible things: f...

I recently sent Prof. Mark Johnson an email query about his (and George Lakoff's) view of "embodied truth." The trouble, it se...

I'm currently working on a book review of Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology . The book was written by Professor Matt Carter ...

A very interesting talk given by Susan Schneider , professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Her paper can be found here .

An excellent interview with Nick Bostrom, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford.

(Words: ~1169) In Towards a Theory of Ignorance , I adumbrated a theoretical account of human ignorance. I argued that a theory of ignorance...