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    Exactly! The question is not whether AI is conscious or forms human-like intentions. The question is whether AI–in carrying out…

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    This is a very strange comment. Searle’s Chinese Room, and his general position on intentionality, were controversial, and criticized (correctly,…

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Belated Announcement of NEH Fellowships

A reader points out that I missed these National Endowment for the Humanities awards for 2006.  Lots of philosophers were winners here, and on a rather wide range of topics:

Ned Block (NYU):  "How the Mind-Body Problem Can Be Empirical"

Steven Horst (Wesleyan):  "Cognitive Pluralism:  Unities and Disunities of Knowledge and the Mind"

Monte Johnson (UC San Diego):  "Aristotle’s ‘Exhortation to Philosophy’"

Jacqueline Taylor (U of San Francisco):  "Passion, Sympathy, and Society in Hume’s Philosophy"

Richard Tieszen (San Jose State):  "Phenomenology and the Exact Sciences"

Kadri Vihvelin (Southern California):  "Our Doings and What We Allow"

(Please let me know if I missed anyone, it was a long list.)

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