The brain in a jar is a different inquiry than traditional questions about artificial intelligence. The brain in a jar asks whether thinking requires a thinker. The possibility of artificial ...
Key Takeaways Dualism holds that the mind and body are separate, with mental experiences not fully explained by physical ...
The philosophy of mind and cognitive science constitute an interdisciplinary domain where classical philosophical investigations into consciousness, intentionality and the nature of mental ...
I first encountered Daniel Dennett’s work in an undergraduate philosophy class. I read his Consciousness Explained, a massive, groundbreaking book that demolished everything I knew about the nature of ...
Nalini Bhushan's research addresses questions in the philosophy of mind and language, aesthetics, the philosophy of science, and 19th- and 20th-century Indian philosophy. Bhushan is co-editor of Of ...