In a recent op-ed in the Washington Post Dr. David Silbersweig made the case for the value of a liberal arts education and in particular a philosophy education.

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Descartes thought machines couldn’t think because they couldn’t speak or understand language. That is no longer true. Continue reading Can A Machine Think? Discussed in One Page →

Mind-body dualism – The body is material and governed by physical law; the mind immaterial and not governed by physical law. Reality is dual, composed of both physical and mental facts. Continue reading Summary of Philosophy of Mind →

A Treatise Of Human Nature by David Hume

The problem – The problem of personal identity concerns determining the necessary and sufficient conditions for a person to persist as the same individual over time. It asks what makes a person at one time identical to a person at another, despite physical or psychological changes. How do we remain the “same” person from birth to death, even though our cells, memories, and personality traits change significantly? Continue reading Summary of the Problem of Personal Identity →