In this paper, I argue that appeals to intuition in Analytic Philosophy are not compelling arguments because intuitions the sort of thing has power rationally persuade other professional analytic philosophers. This conclusion follows from reasonable premises about goal Philosophy, which is rational persuasion by means arguments, and requirement evidence for and/or against philosophical theses u...

Like morally sensitive hospital staff, philosophers resist routine simplification of morally complex cases. Like hospital clergy, they favour reflective and principled decision-making. Like hospital lawyers, they refine and extend the language we use to formulate and defend our complex decisions. But hospital philosophers are not redundant: they have a wider range of principles and categories a...

Artificial life (ALife) is the attempt to create artificial instances of life in a variety of media, but primarily within the digital computer. As such, the field brings together computationally-minded biologists and biologically-minded computer scientists. I argue that this new field is filled with interesting philosophical issues. However, there is a dearth of philosophers actively conducting...