Post traumatic growth: if something not killing could be strengthned?

What if Machines Could be Creative?

Computational creativity is the field of research that is concerned with making computers creative. In this paper, we focus on a particular subfield of this domain, combinatorial creativity. This subfield is concerned with combining components of existing concepts into new concepts. For example, we can combine the concept of a watch with the capabilities of a smartphone – and obtain a smartwatc...

Just lip prints? No: there could be something else.

Could Semantics Be Something Else? Philosophical Challenges for Formal Semantics

Starting from an old, yet still relevant paper of Johan van Benthem, this paper explores the possible consequences of certain philosophical considerations for the concept of a formal semantics of natural language, and argues that this issue is important from the perspective of an overall theory of human information processing.

What Finitism Could Not Be *

In his paper “Finitism” (1981), W.W. Tait maintains that the chief difficulty for everyone who wishes to understand Hilbert’s conception of finitist mathematics is this: to specify the sense of the provability of general statements about the natural numbers without presupposing infinite totalities. Tait further argues that all finitist reasoning is essentially primitive recursive. In this paper...

What Chances Could Not Be

The chance of a physical event is the objective, single-case probability that it will occur. In probabilistic physical theories like quantum mechanics, the chances of physical events play the formal role that the values of physical quantities play in classical (deterministic) physics, and there is a temptation to regard them on the model of the latter as describing intrinsic properties of the s...