Philosophy Of Mind

🇺🇸Daniel Dennett

Philosophy

analytic philosophy

1942–2024

"Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores."

🇬🇧Derek Parfit

Ethics

1942–2017

"To be a person, a being must be self-conscious, aware of its identity and its continued existence over time."

🇺🇸Marvin Minsky

Mathematics

1927–2016

"Hearing music is like viewing scenery and... when we hear good music our minds react in very much the same way they do when we see things."

🇩🇪Joscha Bach

Philosophy

b. 1973

"Long ago, physics and other natural sciences... had become computational."

🇺🇸John Searle

Philosophy

analytic philosophy

1932–2025

"Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself."

🇺🇸Saul Kripke

Philosophy

1940–2022

"It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong."

🇨🇦Patricia Churchland

Philosophy

humanism

b. 1943

"InConversation Radio Interview with Robyn Williams"

🇺🇸Susanne Langer

Philosophy

1895–1985

"Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life."

🇦🇺David Chalmers

Social Activism

atheism

b. 1966

"Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious."

🇺🇸Hilary Putnam

Mathematics

Analytic philosophy

1926–2016

". "I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!"

🇺🇸Terry Winograd

Philosophy

b. 1946

"The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction."

"The fact that something is far-fetched is no reason why it should not be true; it cannot be as far-fetched as the fact that something exists."