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32Love bytes: The future of bio–r2 relationshipsThink 21 (61): 93-99. 2022.What would a romantic relationship between a biological human and an artificial intelligence system look like? The question is explored through a fictional correspondence between Alan Turing and Ada Lovelace.
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22For a Moment or for Eternity: A Metaphysics of Perduring LoversIn Soraj Hongladarom & Jeremiah Joven Joaquin (eds.), Love and Friendship Across Cultures: Perspectives From East and West, Springer Singapore. pp. 179-190. 2021.This paper develops a philosophical account of the relata of romantic love, the nature of the objects in a love-relation. This account holds that the lover who loves and the beloved who is loved are particular people who persist through time by having temporal parts. We show how such a perdurantist account could provide models of different kinds of romantic love: from the love of transitory lovers to the love of immortal beings; from the love of lifelong companions to the love of soulmates. Fina…Read more
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28A Reinterpretation of Beall’s ‘Off-Topic’ SemanticsJournal of Logic, Language and Information 31 (3): 409-421. 2022.Jc Beall’s off-topic interpretation of Weak Kleene logic offers a logic of ‘true-and-topic’ preservation. However, Nissim Francez has recently argued that being ‘off-topic’ is a relational and not an _absolute_ semantic property; as such, it fails to satisfy the conditions of truth-functionality. For Francez, this means that it ‘cannot serve as an interpretation of a truth-value’. In this paper, I propose a two-layered _re_interpretation of Beall’s off-topic semantics. This two-layered framework…Read more
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23Frank Jackson on Mind, Language, and MoralityJournal of Consciousness Studies 29 (1-2): 204-220. 2022.
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25Infectious and transparent emotivismJournal of Applied Non-Classical Logics 32 (1): 1-10. 2021.Emotivists like Ayer claim that moral sentences are devoid of cognitive meaning since they only evince attitudinal approval or disapproval of actions. In this paper, I explore two non-classical sem...
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42Markosian’s Sideways Music and Aesthetic Value GlutsActa Analytica 37 (3): 431-439. 2022.In “Sideways Music”, Ned Markosian presents the aesthetic value variance of sideways music as a case against what the Spacetime Thesis—the thesis that time is one of four similar dimensions that make up spacetime. Critics have already raised worries about the premises of his argument. In this paper, I focus on Markosian’s assumed aesthetic realism. I argue that there is a version of aesthetic realism—a version that admits aesthetic value gluts—that is consistent with both the Spacetime Thesis an…Read more
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38Arthur N. Prior on ‘Unquestionably the Best Logical Symbolism for Most Purposes’History and Philosophy of Logic 43 (2): 158-174. 2021.In his Formal Logic, Arthur N. Prior declared that Jan Łukasiewicz's logical notation is ‘unquestionably the best logical symbolism for most purposes’. Whether he had a substantive, and...
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38Ismael on the Paradox of PredictabilityPhilosophia 49 (5): 2081-2084. 2021.In this discussion note we argue, contrary to the thrust of a recent article by Jenann Ismael, that resolving the paradox of predictability does not require denying the possibility of a natural oracle, and thus stands in no need of the response that she proposes.
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419A Causal-Mentalist View of PropositionsOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 29 (1): 47-77. 2022.In order to fulfil their essential roles as the bearers of truth and the relata of logical relations, propositions must be public and shareable. That requirement has favoured Platonist and other nonmental views of them, despite the well-known problems of Platonism in general. Views that propositions are mental entities have correspondingly fallen out of favour, as they have difficulty in explaining how propositions could have shareable, objective properties. We revive a mentalist view of proposi…Read more
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22Love and Friendship Across Cultures: Perspectives From East and West (edited book)Springer Singapore. 2021.This collection brings together different philosophical points of view discussing two important aspects of human life, namely love and friendship, within the broad context of comparative philosophy. These points of view differ in terms of their cultural orientations - East or West, ancient or modern; philosophical methodologies - analytical, historical, experimental, or phenomenological, broadly construed; and motivation - explanatory, revisionary, or argumentative. The volume is a comparative t…Read more
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46The good place and Ted Sider's puzzleThink 19 (54): 25-29. 2020.The hit American TV show The Good Place has garnered quite a following in recent years. Its main premise implies a scorekeeping view of the afterlife. People who have collected enough credits in their earthly lives will make the cut and go to the Good Place, while those who do not will be banished to the Bad Place. We suggest that such a premise would have to come to terms with Ted Sider's puzzle about the compatibility of a binary afterlife with God's divine attributes.
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167Why Friendly AIs won’t be that Friendly: A Friendly Reply to Muehlhauser and BostromAI and Society 35 (2). 2020.In “Why We Need Friendly AI”, Luke Muehlhauser and Nick Bostrom propose that for our species to survive the impending rise of superintelligent AIs, we need to ensure that they would be human-friendly. This discussion note offers a more natural but bleaker outlook: that in the end, if these AIs do arise, they won’t be that friendly.
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38Beall-ing OLogic and Logical Philosophy 1. forthcoming.In “A neglected reply to Prior’s dilemma” Beall [2012] presents a Weak Kleene framework where Prior’s dilemma for Hume’s no-ought-fromis thesis fails. It fails in the framework because addition, the inference rule that one of its horns relies on, is invalid. In this paper, we show that a more general result is necessary for the viability of Beall’s proposal – a result, which implies that Hume’s thesis holds in the proposed framework. We prove this result and thus show that Beall’s proposal is i…Read more
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38Prospects for Experimental Philosophical LogicOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 26 (2). 2019.This paper focuses on two interrelated issues about the prospects for research projects in experimental philosophical logic. The first issue is about the role that logic plays in such projects; the second involves the role that experimental results from the cognitive sciences play in them. I argue that some notion of logic plays a crucial role in these research projects, and, in turn, the results of these projects might inform substantive debates in the philosophy of logic
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42Clearing the fuzziness: comments on Ashley Tauchert’s fuzzy genderJournal of Gender Studies 1. 2019.In ‘Fuzzy gender: between female embodiment and intersex’, Ashley Tauchert offers a ‘fuzzy’ model for gender. Her proposed model aims to account for the normative boundaries of sex and gender, especially between females, transwomen, and intersexuals, in terms of a ‘gender line’ on which different gender categories are located. This reply paper aims to clear the fuzziness in Tauchert’s model by pointing out two critical problems. First, her model appears to be self-defeating, since the marginaliz…Read more
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22Garrett on the Irrationality of Pure Time PreferencesActa Analytica 34 (3): 363-367. 2019.In “Experience and Time,” Brian Garrett poses a challenge to friends of the rationality of pure time preferences. In this discussion note, we accept the challenge and provide two kinds of cases wherein some pure time preferences could be deemed rational.
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59Truth, lies, and bullshitThink 17 (50): 75-83. 2018.Bullshit is a prevalent phenomenon in this info-crazy world of ours. With the help of Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt, I want to provide a brief philosophical account of this phenomenon, and offer some practical tips to how we could deal with it.Export citation.
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72Hell, Heaven, Neither, or Both: the Afterlife and Sider’s PuzzleSophia 58 (3): 401-408. 2019.Theodore Sider’s puzzle in Hell and Vagueness has generated some interesting responses in the past few years. In this paper, I explore yet another possible solution out of the conundrum. This solution implies three ways of denying a binary conception of the afterlife. I argue that while these solutions might first seem tenable, they might still succumb to a Sideresque revenge puzzle.
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35Grounding logic: A reply to shenefelt and whiteThink 17 (49): 13-16. 2018.In ‘What on Earth is Logic?’, Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White offer this observation about the nature of logic: ‘If one tries to justify logic logically, one ends up arguing in a circle’. From this, they conclude that ‘logic is a horizon beyond which none of our earnest self-reflecting arguments can help us see’. While there is much to appreciate in how they developed this idea, there are several worrying points that could still be raised against their view. In this article, we outline such pr…Read more
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68Feminism without Philosophy: A PolemicKritike 10 (1): 286-300. 2016.In this paper, I address the problem about the role of academic philosophy for the feminist movement. I argue that the professionalization of feminism, especially within the sphere of academic philosophy, is detrimental to the stated goal of the feminist movement, which, as historically understood, is to procure women’s rights and liberties and to reassess the treatment of women by different social institutions. The thought is that if feminism were to reap the rewards of a socio-political change…Read more
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141Powers of the MindIn Nuncio Elizabeth M. (ed.), Personal Development, Anvil Publishing, Inc. 2016.This article is a general introduction to the psychology of reasoning. Specifically, it focuses on the dual process theory of human cognition. Proponents of the said two-system view hold that human cognition involves two processes (viz., System 1 and System 2). System 1 is an automatic, intuitive thinking process where judgments and reasoning rely on fast thinking and ready-to-hand data. On the other hand, System 2 is a slow, logical cognitive process where our judgments and reasoning rely on re…Read more
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194Teaching Syllogistic Logic via a Retooled Venn Diagrammatical TechniqueTeaching Philosophy 40 (2). 2017.In elementary logic textbooks, Venn diagrams are used to analyze and evaluate the validity of syllogistic arguments. Although the method of Venn diagrams is shown to be a powerful analytical tool in these textbooks, it still has limitations. On the one hand, such method fails to represent singular statements of the form, “a is F.” On other hand, it also fails to represent identity statements of the form, “a is b.” Because of this, it also fails to give an account of the validity of some obviousl…Read more
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22Bayesianism and the Idea of Scientific RationalityCroatian Journal of Philosophy 17 (1): 33-43. 2017.Bayesianism has been dubbed as the most adequate and successful theory of scientific rationality. Its success mainly lies in its ability to combine two mutually exclusive elements involved in the process of theory-selection in science, viz.: the subjective and objective elements. My aim in this paper is to explain and evaluate Bayesianism’s account of scientific rationality by contrasting it with two other accounts.
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35An Alternative Dialectical Picture of the Phenomenal Concept Strategy Debate: A Reply to MabaquiaoKritike 11 (1): 10-33. 2017.
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7457This paper surveys medieval Christian philosophy.
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58"What Is This Thing Called Metaphysics?," by Brian Garrett (review)Teaching Philosophy 35 (3): 322-328. 2012.
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11367The Nature of TruthIn Leni Garcia (ed.), Exploring the Philosophical Terrain, C&e Publishing. 2013.This article surveys different philosophical theories about the nature of truth. We give much importance to truth; some demand to know it, some fear it, and others would even die for it. But what exactly is truth? What is its nature? Does it even have a nature in the first place? When do we say that some truth-bearers are true? Philosophers offer varying answers to these questions. In this article, some of these answers are explored and some of the problems raised against them are presented.
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71Wittgenstein on the Happy LifeDalumat 2 (1): 23-31. 2011.In this paper, I offer a reconstruction of Wittgenstein's view of the happy life by sketching out three interconnected themes in his early works. The first theme is the distinction between a science of ethics and the ethical. The second is the idea of the willing subject. And finally, the third is the possibility of the happy life.
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4160The debate concerning the proper way of understanding, and hence solving, the “is-ought problem” produced two mutually exclusive positions. One position claims that it is entirely impossible to deduce an imperative statement from a set of factual statements. The other position holds a contrary view to the effect that one can naturally derive an imperative statement from a set of factual statements under certain conditions. Although these two positions have opposing views concerning the problem, …Read more
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4169An Introduction to MetaethicsIn Exploring the Philosophical Terrain, C&e. 2013.This article is a survey of metaethics.
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