In the study of philosophy, Free will is defined as “The ability to choose, think, and act voluntarily. Many people wonder if they truly have free will to make their own choices, or is everything pre-determined for them in order to carry out their lifestyle. I’m sure we all wonder...
So I hope people will not be too offended if I propose that ancient philosophers were similarly naive. In particular, they don't seem to have fully grasped what I earlier called the central fact of philosophy: that words break if you push them too far."Much to the surprise of the ...
Do other people have minds? But, on the other hand, do robots or artificial systems have minds? These are some of the questions I am trying to answer with an empirical study that I will present later. 3 Free will Very few concepts are as contested and debated as that of free will...
Some philosophers and neuroscientists have recently been saying that science shows that we don't have free will, but it turns out that this claim-which would be bad news if true-is due to misrepresentation and misinterpretation. Since free will matters to people, and should matter, these ...
, his sexual focus on young girls rekindled, and a new scan revealed that bits of tissue missed in the surgery had grown into a sizeable tumour. Surgery once again restored his behavioural profile to "normal". This case renders concrete the issue of free will. Did the man have free will...
People carry on with their lives under sometimes extraordinary levels of suffering; should we say that their suffering is tolerable because they are able to ‘carry on’? If so, then tolerability will not serve as a useful lower threshold. I want to suggest, though, that we can have a ...
有句老话说得好, “不听老人言,吃亏在眼前。” My parents have not once failed to make me feel the weight of this saying throughout my post-secondary education career. To say studying philosophy was difficult would be a...
If I ever think about my own death -- which, like most people, I try to avoid -- I hope for a quick end, with a heart attack or a stroke, preferably while asleep. But I realize that I may not be so fortunate. I may very well have to go through a time when I am still ...
I don’t want to have to teach every medical provider: barriers to care among non-binary people in the canadian healthcare system. Cult Health Sex. 2023;1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2023.2185685. Goldhammer H, Malina S, Keuroghlian AS. Communicating with patients who have non...
In part one, I describe the philosophical foundations of digital minimalism, starting with an examination of the forces that are making so many people’s digital lives increasingly intolerable, before moving on to a detailed discussion of the digital minimalism philosophy. Part one concludes by ...