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27Review of Matter and Mind by I. Dilman (review)International Studies in Philosophy 9 168-170. 1977.Half of Dilman's book deal with skepticism about the physical world and the other half with skepticism about other minds. His main thesis in each case is that the very general doubts that have traditionally troubled philosophers must not be answered on their own terms but by showing that they are confused. Exposing this confusion helps us to understand better the "logic" of our ordinary talk about things and persons. He draws illuminating parallels between problems about knowledge of the exter…Read more
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22Particulars and Their QualitiesIn Michael J. Loux (ed.), Universals and particulars: readings in ontology, University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 264-84. 1970.See Abstract under this title of the journal article below.
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276Why Machines Can Neither Think nor FeelIn Dale W. Jamieson (ed.), Language, Mind and Art, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1994.Over three decades ago, in a brief but provocative essay, Paul Ziff argued for the thesis that robots cannot have feelings because they are "mechanisms, not organisms, not living creatures. There could be a broken-down robot but not a dead one. Only living creatures can literally have feelings."[i] Since machines are not living things they cannot have feelings. In the first half of my paper I review Ziff's arguments against the idea that robots could be conscious, especially his appeal to our l…Read more
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