Casey, Gerard(Philosophy Documentation Center, 2009-09)
Government, the systematic exercise of command by some over others backed by the allegedly legitimate use of violence, requires justification. All government is predicated upon a distinction between rulers and ruled. Who ...
In the debate on the relationship between conceptions of human nature and ethics/politics there are those who view any attempt to ground ethics/politics upon a reasonably 'thick' conception of human nature as illegitimate. ...
Casey, Gerard(University of Notre Dame Press, 2013-06)
As a philosophical theory, as contrasted with a theological view or an
assumption of popular science or an emotional intuition about fate, determinism
fails because it is unstateable. However far we impinge (for instance ...
The past three decades have witnessed a remarkable growth of research interest in the mind. This trend has
been acclaimed as the ‘cognitive revolution’ in psychology. At the heart of this revolution lies the claim that
the ...
Casey, Gerard(Philosophical Society at St. Patrick's College, 1988-06)
The association of Wittgenstein’s name with the notion of artificial intelligence is bound
to cause some surprise both to Wittgensteinians and to people interested in artificial
intelligence. After all, Wittgenstein died ...