Reply to: ‘TLP: a premature concept’

The Phenomenal Concept Strategy: a reply to Chalmers

A powerful reply to a range of familiar anti-physicalist arguments has recently been developed. According to this reply, our possession of phenomenal concepts can explain the facts that the anti-physicalist claims can only be explained by a non-reductive account of phenomenal consciousness. Chalmers (2006) argues that the phenomenal concept strategy is doomed to fail. This paper presents the ph...

Similarity and attribution in concept combination: reply to Wisniewski

Wisniewski raises several important points in his comment on our study of the (non)role of similarity in concept combination. He notes that feature diagnosticity is an important factor in property attribution. He also points out that relational interpretations of combined concepts depend on thematic role plausibility, not constituent similarity. We agree with both of these points. Wisniewski fu...

A Problem in Avicennas View on the Origination of the Soul and a Reply to It

A framework of reply speech generation for concept-to-speech conversion in spoken dialogue systems

Due to recent advancements in speech technologies, a large number of spoken dialogue systems have been constructed. However, since most of them adopt existing text-to-speech synthesizers, it is rather difficult to reflect the linguistic information obtained during the reply sentence generation well in output speech. A framework is necessary for correctly reflecting higher-level linguistic infor...

A Reply to Pickering

I felt I should reply to Andy Pickering’s short Response to my long Review of his book; I did not want to leave it uncontested in the literature.1 I will pick up a couple of points from his comments to indicate just what it is that he has failed to grasp about my Review. If these points are understood, then all else falls into place. Though Pickering writes that my critical remarks ‘form a disc...