In defence of an argument against truthmaker maximalism

A Defence Of Connectionism Against The "Syntactic" Argument

In “Representations without Rules, Connectionism and the Syntactic Argument”, Kenneth Aizawa argues against the view that connectionist nets can be understood as processing representations without the use of representation-level rules, and he provides a positive characterization of how to interpret connectionist nets as following representation-level rules. He takes Terry Horgan and John Tienso...

An Argument against Epiphenomenalism

_________________________________________________ I formulate an argument against epiphenomenalism; the argument shows that epiphenomenalism is extremely improbable. Moreover the argument suggests that qualia not only have causal powers, but have their causal powers necessarily. I address possible objections and then conclude by considering some implications the argument has for dualism.

Counter Argument In Defence of Common Sense

development and implementation of an optimized control strategy for induction machine in an electric vehicle

in the area of automotive engineering there is a tendency to more electrification of power train. in this work control of an induction machine for the application of electric vehicle is investigated. through the changing operating point of the machine, adapting the rotor magnetization current seems to be useful to increase the machines efficiency. in the literature there are many approaches wh...

AAAI: An Argument Against Artificial Intelligence

The ethical concerns regarding the successful development of an Artificial Intelligence have received a lot of attention lately, and rightly so. Even if we have good reason to believe that it is very unlikely, the mere possibility of an AI causing extreme human suffering is problematic enough to warrant serious consideration. In this paper I argue that a similar ethical concern arises when we l...