Recent research has made it possible to trace the nature of formation subjectivation. The term, which came from philosophy M. Foucault, was considered in context historical subject, peculiarities its social design. But recently, understanding such complex terminology is becoming increasingly if we turn modern cognition, biology, epistemology. starting point for this activity approach. It opens ...

Seventeen years ago, John McCarthy wrote the note Epistemological challenges for connectionism as a response to Paul Smolensky’s paper On the proper treatment of connectionism. I will discuss the extent to which the four key challenges put forward by McCarthy have been solved, and what are the new challenges ahead. I argue that there are fewer epistemological challenges for connectionism, but p...

Many who take a dismissive attitude towards metaphysics trace their view back to Carnap’s ‘Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology’ (1950a). But the reason Carnap takes a dismissive attitude to metaphysics is a matter of controversy. I will argue that no reason is given in ‘Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology’, and this is because his reason for rejecting metaphysical debates was given in ‘Pseudo-Pro...