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Does Sartre's conception of consciousness imply the impossibility of a conscious computer?
Hubert Dreyfus among others have risen to prominence in philosophy of AI by emphasising (among other things) the directive primacy of unconscious or automatic, habit-driven processes. Dreyfus came to ...
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What does Sartre mean when he says people are “condemned to be free”?
What did Jean-Paul Sartre mean when he said that because there is no creator, humans are "Condemned to be Free"?
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Is Deleuze's characterization of Sartre (that his central obsession was “lakes of non-being and the viscosity of matter”) fair?
In his essay entitled My teacher Gilles Deleuze characterises the "central obsession" of Sartre as being "lakes of non-being and the viscosity of matter".
Is this a fair characterisation of Sartre's ...
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Philosophic Puzzle: How to be Non-Hypocratic AND Non-Anarchistic?
Is it possible to always act according to ones moral standards while tolerating hierarchy in society?
In other words: If you leave to somebody else the act of making the rules, including immoral ...
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Was the European Left confined in a false dichotomy between capitalism and communism?
In the 2004 book "Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended It" (link to a brief review/synopsis), the author portrays two of the leading members of the literary class' ...
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Is atheism a requirement for a consistent existentialist philosophy?
Søren Kierkegaard is generally considered to be the "father of existentialism". This always bothered me, since to me Sartre and Camus are the defining figures of the movement, and it seems that there ...
