Unanswered Questions
2,150 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Does Google's latest translation tool support Jerry Fodor's Language of Thought Hypothesis?
Google recently updated their translation tool so that it can now translate between language pairs that it hadn't seen before, something they're calling "zero-shot translation." See here for ...
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A Neo-Kantian View on Causality?
Quantum non-determinism seems incompatible with Kant’s defense of causality in his Second Analogy.
Stephen R. Palmquist however provides an interesting and appealing case against this supposition, ...
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Meaning in use and naturalisation of intentionality
What is the relation between pragmatism and intentionality?
Two different enterprises in philosophy seem to be well established and yet contradicting:
Inferential Pragmatism: from Wittgenstein and ...
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Why isn't humanistic logic taught in schools any more?
Specifically, I'm curious about the loci or categories that Agricola and later Ramus used extensively. Were they found to be problematic at a later time? If not, why not use them? They're so helpful ...
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How does Quine effectively shift from points he has made about knowledge acquisition to conclusions he makes about knowledge simpliciter?
Quine propagated forward an approach to epistemology wherein there was no need of any sort of justification "beyond observation and the hypothetico-deductive method" (Quine 1981).
Quine is going ...
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What do Philosophers think about the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics?
One of the interpretations of quantum mechanics is the Many Worlds Interpretation which basically states that the universe as a whole develops like an unobserved quantum system, and any observation ...
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Quine and the Myth of the Given
To give you some background details about myself: I have a deep interest in Quine's work and Naturalism in Philosophy; I have been independently studying and reading Quine's work and his relation to ...
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In which writings does Charles Sanders Peirce generalize the idea of freedom so that it applies to all creatures?
Charles Hartshorne claimed that
Peirce was pretty close to the first philosopher in the world who generalized the idea of freedom so that it applied to all the creatures....
In which writings ...
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Simulation argument and compressibility
Short version:
Has anyone tried arguing against Bostrom's argument's final postulate from the compressibility viewpoint?
Long version:
As per Nick Bostrom's simulation argument if people can make ...
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Approximately directed graph of logic types
I'm not sure if this is the right stack to post this question.
Given there are many types of logic; Syllogistic, Symbolic, Modal, Deontic, Temporal, Epistemic, (non)monotonic, formal, informal, FOL, ...
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Is defining the concept of Probability still an open problem in the Philosophy of Science?
There exist several interpretations of the concept of Probability:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_interpretations
Being the assumption of Repeatability an important difference between them.
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The enunciation clause (Lyotard & Levinas)
As kind of introductory remark, let me state that I'm not academically-trained in philosophy, so my apologies if this comes up as a rather simple question.
I was reading Logique de Levinas by JF ...
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Purpose and examples of Phenomenological analysis (transcendental reduction)
I would like to ask whether there are any concrete end-to-end examples that you are aware of, and ones that I can go through that are considered correct transcripts of the transcendental reduction ...
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Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
I mean obviously there's some kinda link between the master's discourse and at least some forms of modernism. I'...
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Does Alvin Plantinga's book Knowledge and Christian Belief offer any substantial updates to Warranted Christian Belief?
The stated primary goal of Plantinga's Knowledge and Christian Belief (2015) was to condense the content of Warranted Christian Belief (2000) into a shorter and more accessible book.
My question is ...