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First, Scale Up to the Robotic Turing Test, Then Worry About Feeling
No full textConsciousness is feeling, and the problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how and why some of the functions underlying some of our performance capacities are felt rather than just “functed.” But unless we are prepared to assign to feeling a telekinetic power (which all evidence contradicts), feeling cannot be assigned any causal power at all. We cannot explain how or why we feel. Hence the empirical target of cognitive science can only be to scale up to the robotic Turing Test, which is to explain all of our performance capacity, but without explaining consciousness or incorporating it in any way in our functional explanation
Author Peter FitzSimons speaking at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 13 November 2012 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author Peter FitzSimons speaking at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 13 November 2012.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Moral Good, the Beatific Vision, and God’s Kingdom Writings by Germain Grisez and Peter Ryan, S.J.. Edited by Peter J. Weigel
No full textFor close to half a century, the work of Germain Grisez has been highly influential, and his writings continue to receive considerable attention from philosophers and theologians of diverse viewpoints. His co-author for this work is the professor and noted moral theologian Fr. Peter Ryan, S.J., currently the executive director of the Secretariat of Doctrine and Canonical Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). These two eminent scholars explore fundamental questions about Christian eschatology, moral theory, the purpose of human life, and the promise of human fulfilment. The authors examine Christian teaching on the final destiny of persons, investigating the meaning of God's kingdom, the hope of the beatific vision, and the centrality of moral goodness and divine grace in one's final end. This work is an ideal source for students, scholars, ministers and lay persons interested in basic questions of Christian theology, the philosophy of religion, ethical theory, and Catholic doctrin
Murder on the mountain: author talk with Peter J. Wosh
No full textAuthor talk by Peter J. Wosh on May 5th, 2022, on his book, "Murder on the Mountain: crime, passion, and punishment in gilded age New Jersey.
Une simple erreur de traduction -L'erreur de l'interprète Scherzer (1875) et ses conséquences sur les relations franco-chinoises
No full textInternational audienceA mistake committed by the interpreter Fernand Scherzer in his translation of a Chinese diplomatic note in 1875 is often considered as a remote cause of the Franco-Chinese conflicts over the protectorate of Vietnam, which had been partly occupied by France shortly before. The sentence in question indicating that Vietnam is a vassal state of China, was mistakenly translated using the past perfect tense. In this article, we suggest that Scherzer’s mistake did not have a concrete impact on France’s policy towards China. The sentence itself did not purvey a statement about the question of Vietnam’s protectorate, and the thesis according to which the Chinese text implied a protest – the meaning of which would have been inverted by Scherzer – is probably only a retrospective interpretation invented by the Chinese ambassador to France, Zeng Jize, in 1882.Une erreur de l’interprète Fernand Scherzer dans sa traduction d’une note diplomatique chinoise en 1875 est souvent considérée comme une cause lointaine des conflits franco-chinois autour du protectorat sur le Vietnam, partiellement occupé par la France peu de temps auparavant. La phrase en question indiquant que le Vietnam est un pays vassal de la Chine, fut traduite à tort au passé composé. Dans cet article, nous cherchons à montrer que l’erreur de Scherzer n’eut aucune incidence concrète sur la politique française à l’égard de la Chine. Cette phrase n’insinuait en réalité aucune prise de position sur la question du protectorat, et la thèse selon laquelle le texte chinois sous-entendait une protestation dont le sens aurait été détourné par Scherzer, n’est probablement qu’une interprétation a posteriori qu’inventa l’ambassadeur chinois en France, Zeng Jize, en 1882
Lunchtime Talk with Author and Attorney Peter Godwin
No full textAuthor and attorney Peter Godwin gave a lunchtime talk about the topics discussed in his book, The Fear, which focuses on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe under the rule of Robert Mugabe
An essay about the Francis Paudras Collection on Bud Powell by Peter Pullman
No full textThis is an essay about the Francis Paudras Collection on Bud Powell written by Peter Pullman, a jazz scholar and author of Wail: The Life of Bud Powell (Brooklyn: Bop Changes, 2012).One image file (pdf)This project was supported by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Professor Peter Singer speaking at the National Press Club Canberra, 11 February 2009 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on information from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Humanitarian author Professor Peter Singer at the National Press Club, Canberra, 11 February 2009.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia, 2009
The Peter Martyr reader
No full textAccession Number: ATLA0001328116; Language(s): English; Issued by ATLA: 20080715; Publication Type: Review; Related Books/Electronic Resources: By: Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562 Peter Martyr reader viii, 260 p. Publisher: Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 1999. ATLA0001327874Source type: Electronic(1)http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=reh&AN=ATLA0001328116&loginpage=Login.asp&site=ehost-liv
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