Philosophical Reflections

Sunday, 22 December 2013

The Santa Claus Pill

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The British newspaper The Guardian features a “personal effects” page where readers can ask other readers for advice about how to de...
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Friday, 20 December 2013

Leo Tolstoy on the Difference between People and Lampposts

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In the week leading up to Christmas, after several months of abstinence, I’ve finally found the time again to read a great novel, Leo...
Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Huckleberry Finn on How the World Was Made (or Laid)

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Reading Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , I came across the following intriguing passage (in chapter 19), in which Huck tell...
Monday, 18 November 2013

Do Automatic Sweethearts Work?

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A couple of weeks ago I briefly discussed, prompted by David Levy’s treatment of the issue in his book Love and Sex with Robots , whe...
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Wednesday, 6 November 2013

E.T.A. Hoffmann's Olimpia

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Here’s yet another tale about a man’s erotic obsession with a female android, or automaton as it used to be called at the time: E.T.A...
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