Reviews A Chance Encounter:

On a not so chance encounter of neurophilosophy and science studies in a sleep laboratory

This article was inspired by participant observation of a contemporary collaboration between empirically oriented philosophers of mind and neuroscientists. An encounter between this anthropologist of science and neurophilosophers in a Finnish sleep laboratory led to the following philosophical exploration of the intellectual space shared by neurophilosophy and science studies. Since these field...

Give chance a chance

How did I get to become a cell biologist? Or, more generally, why do things happen the way they do? The answer provided by the philosopher Democritus and later adopted by Jacques Monod is "everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity." While I read Monod's book Chance and Necessity as an undergraduate student, little did I appreciate the accuracy of this citation and...

A Philosophical Encounter

This paper, along with the following paper by John McCarthy, introduces some of the topics to be discussed at the IJCAI95 event ‘A philosophical encounter: An interactive presentation of some of the key philosophical problems in AI and AI problems in philosophy.’ Philosophy needs AI in order to make progress with many difficult questions about the nature of mind, and AI needs philosophy in orde...

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A Brief Philosophical Encounter with Science and Medicine

We show a lot of respect for science today. To back up our claims, we tend to appeal to scientific methods. It seems that we all agree that these methods are effective for gaining the truth. We can ask why science has its special status as a supplier of knowledge about our external world and our bodies. Of course, one should not always trust what scientists say. Nonetheless, epistemological jus...