Can Computers Have Knowledge?

Friday, November 7th, 2008

I just handed in my final essay for philosophy looking at something close to my geek heart. I decided to approach the topic of artificial intelligence (a deprecated term now but still has meaning in the public mind at least) from an epistemological angle. Epistemology? That is ...

She blinded me with science

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Scientists think they're so smart with their white coats and clip-boards but what do they really know? Here are my notes from reading Macquarrie: "Cognition" [from: In Search of Humanity] as part of my Philosophy course. Empiricism is too narrow, that's the idea that everything we know can be neatly packaged as ...