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4The Philosophical Roots of AnthropologyCenter for the Study of Language and Information Publications. 1998.Few anthropologists have made any attempts to explore their own discipline's prehistory or to have realized its importance. William Adams attempts to rectify this myopic self-awareness by applying anthropology's own tools to itself while uncovering the discipline's debt to earlier thinkers. Adams recognizes that many ideas which were anticipated in antiquity have had a lasting influence on anthropological models in particular. Adams has chosen five philosophical currents whose influences have be…Read more
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194Machine consciousness: Plausible idea or semantic distortion?Journal of Consciousness Studies 11 (9): 46-56. 2004.I found the JCS issue on Machine Consciousness, Volume 10, No. 4-5 , frustrating and alienating. There seems to be a consensus building that consciousness is accessible to scientific scrutiny, so much so that it is already understood well enough to be modeled and even synthesized. I'm not so sure. It could be instead that the vocabulary of consciousness is being subtly redefined to be amenable to scientific investigation and explicit modeling. Such semantic revisionism is confusing and often mis…Read more
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University of KentuckyRegular Faculty
Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
General Philosophy of Science |