Cheng-hung Tsai

Academia Sinica, Taiwan

My research area is the philosophy of intelligence, with a core focus on the phenomenon of intelligent action. While humans perform a wide variety of actions daily, not all actions qualify as intelligent actions; only certain actions reveal underlying special mental states or qualities, such as intelligence or skill. The primary philosophical questions I investigate include: (1) How can humans, through learning only a limited number of sentences, grasp and understand infinitely many sentences, including those never previously encountered? (2) How can humans still make moral judgments and take actions that mutually benefit one another when exp…

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