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399On the verisimilitude of artificial intelligenceLogique Et Analyse- 190 (189): 323-350. 2005.This paper investigates how the simulation of intelligence, an activity that has been considered the notional task of Artificial Intelligence, does not comprise its duplication. Briefly touching on the distinction between conceivability and possibility, and commenting on Ryan’s approach to fiction in terms of the interplay between possible worlds and her principle of minimal departure, we specify verisimilitude in Artificial Intelligence as the accurate resemblance of intelligence by its simulat…Read more
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Mundos admisibles Admissible worldsRevista de filosofía (Chile) 62 19-40. 2006.Tomando en cuenta las críticas más importantes a la teoría de los individuostransmundanos, así como algunos argumentos en relación con el esencialismo deorigen, este artículo trata el problema de la identidad de aquellos individuos a travésde mundos posibles. Proponemos la noción de mundo admisible como un tipo especial de modelo en Lógica Intensional, que, dentro de otro modelo, permite el mapeo de la historia e identidad de los individuos en diferentes mundos posibles. Esta propuesta sugiere u…Read more
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22Possible worlds with impossible objects: the imaginary logic of NA Vasil'évLogique Et Analyse 40 (159): 225-248. 1997.The paper investigates the system of 'Imaginary Logic' created by the Russian logician N.A. Vasil'ev (1880-1940), considered by some to be a forerunner of paraconsistent or intuitionistic logics. It is shown how he constructs a logic without the law of contradiction redefining the concept of negation. Vasil'ev singles out two levels of logic, an external one which is absolute and one depending on commitments in relation to cognizable objects which is not absolute. His reconstruction of the syllo…Read more
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23Mundos admisiblesRevista de filosofía (Chile) 62 19-40. 2006.Tomando en cuenta las críticas más importantes a la teoría de los individuos transmundanos así como algunos argumentos en relación con el esencialismo de origen, este artículo trata con el problema de la identidad de aquellos individuos a través de mundos posibles. Proponemos la noción de mundo admisible como un tipo especial de modelo en Lógica Intensional, que, dentro de otro modelo, permite el mapeo de la historia e identidad de los individuos en diferentes mundos posibles. Esta propuesta sug…Read more
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121Mundos admisiblesRevista de Filosofía 62 19-40. 2006.Tomando en cuenta las críticas más importantes a la teoría de los individuos transmundanos, así como algunos argumentos en relación con el esencialismo de origen, este artículo trata el problema de la identidad de aquellos individuos a través de mundos posibles. Proponemos la noción de mundo admisible como un tipo especial de modelo en Lógica Intensional, que, dentro de otro modelo, permite el mapeo de la historia e identidad de los individuos en diferentes mundos posibles. Esta propuesta sugier…Read more
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29MS Models: A New Approach to Models and Simulations in Artificial IntelligenceLogique Et Analyse 50 (198): 179-206. 2007.
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Gabbay, D. and Guenthner, F. , Handbook of Philosophical Logic (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 55 (1): 141. 1993.
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Vuillemin, J., Nécessité ou contingence. L'aporie de Diodore et les systèmes philosophiques (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 48 (n/a): 648. 1986.
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18Models, reference, and reality: internal realism and beyondLogique Et Analyse 41 (164): 365-379. 1998.
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24Realisme en antirealismeTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 53 (4). 1991.In this article the contemporary debate between realism and anti-realism in analytical philosophy is analysed and discussed. It is claimed that the nature of the reference relation which holds between language and the world is central in this discussion which has both logical, semantical, and epistemological aspects. In a first part A. Tarski's (semantic) theory of thru th is explained and it is shown how, amongst several theories of truth, Tarski's may be called a realist one. However, a Tarski…Read more
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21Incomplete descriptions: problems of elliptical analysis, situation semantics and relevanceLogique Et Analyse 45 (177-178): 129-153. 2002.
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322Will Science and Consciousness Ever Meat? Complexity, Symmetry and QualiaSymmetry 2 (3): 1250-1269. 2010.Within recent discussions in the Philosophy of Mind, the nature of conscious phenomenal states or qualia (also called ‘raw feels’ or the feel of ‘what it is like to be’) has been an important focus of interest. Proponents of Mind-Body Type-Identity theories have claimed that mental states can be reduced to neurophysiological states of the brain. Others have denied that such a reduction is possible; for them, there remains an explanatory gap. In this paper, functionalist, physicalist, epiphenomen…Read more
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19NA Vasil'ev: Imaginary (non-Aristotelian) logic (translated and edited)Logique Et Analyse 46 (182): 127-163. 2003.
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7A Metalogical Theory of Reference: Realism and Essentialism in SemanticsUniversity Press of Amer. 1993.Roger Vergauwen seeks to provide an answer to the question, "How does language connect to the world?" He begins with the recent developments in formal semantics and from them constructs his own 'theory of reference' with which he considers the nature of the correspondence of the world. The author locates his metalogics between the philosophy of language and epistemology while he covers a range of models from Plato to Wittgenstein. Vergauwen assumes no previous technical or logical study. Content…Read more
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18Twee en een halve opvatting over de relatie tussen logica, taal en werkelijkheidTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 60 (1). 1998.In the discussion between realism and anti-realism, the causal theory of reference plays a central role. As a version of metaphysical realism, causal realism maintains that language is hooked upon the world by means of causal chains that account for the relation between language and extra-linguistic reality, a thesis denied by antirealism in its various forms. The paper investigates these criticisms which are both logical and epistemological, taking as an example H. Putnam's views on these matte…Read more
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47Artificial Intelligence and Agentive Cognition: A Logico-linguistic ApproachLogique Et Analyse 52 (205): 57-96. 2009.