After getting my degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, I asked myself, “what should I do with all of the essays, research papers, and source code I authored in the last four years?” My answer: feed it to Google!
To have a nice place to publish my papers, I began working on Project Alexandria at [...]
As an exercise, I made a chronological list of all of the (titled) papers I wrote in college. Some of the titles are pretty funny. If you possess or are able to create such a list, please share.
Ethics and Will with Respect to Belief
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote?!
Causality According to Plato, Aristotle, and Descartes
Hume’s [...]
In The Extended Mind, Andy Clark and David Chalmers discuss the possibility of extended minds; coupled systems in which a human organism produces cognition, beliefs, and thoughts with the aid of external entities. Clark and Chalmers give the example of Otto, a man suffering from Alzheimer’s who uses a notebook to record his thoughts and [...]
In an article entitled Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing describes the Turing test, his famous criterion for machine intelligence: a computer can be considered a thinking machine if a human interlocutor, after asking the computer a series of questions, cannot tell whether he is conversing with a machine or with another human. After describing [...]