What is real has always been something we find , not something we make —or so philosophy has assumed. This paper argues otherwise. Characterizing reality through resistance rather than substance (the ways the world refuses a subject’s mastery), I distinguish three modalities correlative to epistemic, judgmental, and practical mastery: Substrate (matter’s resistance to representation),...
Abstract Recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) renewed the enthusiasm for what AIs can do. While some argue that AIs can be viable models for understanding human cognition, others go further and claim that future AIs might display cognitive capacities. However, although some current models excel at tasks such as language processing and pattern recognition, their...
It is an increasingly popular view among philosophers that moral responsibility can, in principle, be attributed to unconscious autonomous agents. This trend is already remarkable in itself, but it is even more interesting that most proponents of this view provide more or less the same argument to support their position. I argue that as it stands, the Extension Argument, as I call it, is not...