Determining and Developing Virtues “Living is not a matter of executing an algorithm, or if it is, we are clueless as to what algorithm we are executing. A good life is a matter of living and being a certain way, or more likely, living and being in one of the multifarious ways that are worthy, which lead to flourishing and, if we are lucky, to...

Thinking Computers “You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you will tell me precisely what it is that a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that!” – J. von Neumann  The journey of philosophy and cognitive psychology towards an understanding of thinking closely follows, for many important reasons,...

There are three perspectives on love: a first-person subjective experience, sometimes powerful and exhilarating in the case of romantic love; observable second-person relations and pair bonding; and a “third-person” objective perspective: the biophysical aspects of the phenomenon. The plurality of love, its varieties of meaning in globalized human...