Intentions: Philosophical and Empirical Issues

Emotion, philosophical issues about.

We start this overview by discussing the place of emotions within the broader affective domain-how different are emotions from moods, sensations, and affective dispositions? Next, we examine the way emotions relate to their objects, emphasizing in the process their intimate relations to values. We move from this inquiry into the nature of emotion to an inquiry into their epistemology. Do they p...

Philosophical Issues in Kolmogorov

Hypercomputation: philosophical issues

A survey of the /eld of hypercomputation, including discussion of four a priori objections to the possibility of hypercomputation. An exegesis of Turing’s preand post-war writings on the mind is given, and Turing’s views on the scope of machines are discussed. c © 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V.

Multiverses and Cosmology: Philosophical Issues

The idea of a multiverse – an ensemble of universes or universe domains – has received increasing attention in cosmology, both as the outcome of the originating process that generated our own universe, and as an explanation for why our universe appears to be fine-tuned for life and consciousness. Here we carefully consider how multiverses should be defined, stressing the distinction between the...

Reflective Intentions: Philosophical Concepts of Intentionality

A striking finding in experimental philosophy is that attributions of intentionality are sometimes influenced by seemingly external moral considerations. The most notable case of this phenomenon involves the intentionality of causing side-effects; causing a good side-effect is judged as unintentional while causing a bad side-effect is judged as intentional (Knobe, 2003a). I present a number of ...