Jack Copeland
Biographic Data
| ID | 5910862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Copeland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Copeland |
| SIGNATURE | COPELAND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Inconceivable Popularity of Conceivability Arguments
Famous examples of conceivability arguments include (i) Descartes’ argument for mind-body dualism, (ii) Kripke's ‘modal argument’ against psychophysical identity theory, (iii) Chalmers’ ‘zombie argument’ against materialism, and (iv) modal versions of the ontological argument for theism. In this paper, we show that for any such conceivability argument, C, there is a corresponding ‘mirror argument’, M. M is deductively valid and has a conclusion t…
Alan Turing 1912–1954
Alan Mathison Turing was born on 23 June 1912 in London 1;he died on 7 June 1954 at his home in Wilmslow, Cheshire. Turing contributed to logic, mathematics, biology, philosophy, cryptanalysis, and formatively to the areas later known as computer science, cognitive science, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life. Educated at Sherborne School in Dorset, Turing went up to King’s College, Cambridge, in October 1931 to read Mathematics. He grad…
The essential Turing
"Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and World War II code-breaker, was one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The astonishing output of his tragically short life included the universal Turing Machine (the theoretical foundation of all modern computing), the electro-mechanical 'bombes' used at Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma code, his ground-breaking design for an electronic stored-programme computer, and…
Papers on time and tense
Identifiable Individuals
I want to examine some of the things that Professor N.L. Wilson says about the identity of individuals in his paper on ‘Substances without Substrata’;1 and then I want to raise a few further problems of my own.We can best begin from Wilson’s ‘simple little puzzle’ about Caesar and Antony: ‘What would the world be like if Julius Caesar had all the properties of Mark Antony and Mark Antony had all the properties of Julius Caesar’. 21 Wilson’s own a…
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Papers on time and tense
Identifiable Individuals
I want to examine some of the things that Professor N.L. Wilson says about the identity of individuals in his paper on ‘Substances without Substrata’;1 and then I want to raise a few further problems of my own.We can best begin from Wilson’s ‘simple little puzzle’ about Caesar and Antony: ‘What would the world be like if Julius Caesar had all the properties of Mark Antony and Mark Antony had all the properties of Julius Caesar’. 21 Wilson’s own a…
Alan Turing 1912–1954
Alan Mathison Turing was born on 23 June 1912 in London 1;he died on 7 June 1954 at his home in Wilmslow, Cheshire. Turing contributed to logic, mathematics, biology, philosophy, cryptanalysis, and formatively to the areas later known as computer science, cognitive science, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life. Educated at Sherborne School in Dorset, Turing went up to King’s College, Cambridge, in October 1931 to read Mathematics. He grad…
The essential Turing
"Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and World War II code-breaker, was one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The astonishing output of his tragically short life included the universal Turing Machine (the theoretical foundation of all modern computing), the electro-mechanical 'bombes' used at Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma code, his ground-breaking design for an electronic stored-programme computer, and…
The Inconceivable Popularity of Conceivability Arguments
Famous examples of conceivability arguments include (i) Descartes’ argument for mind-body dualism, (ii) Kripke's ‘modal argument’ against psychophysical identity theory, (iii) Chalmers’ ‘zombie argument’ against materialism, and (iv) modal versions of the ontological argument for theism. In this paper, we show that for any such conceivability argument, C, there is a corresponding ‘mirror argument’, M. M is deductively valid and has a conclusion t…
Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Classics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Programming language (2 works) · Turing (2 works) · 1912-1954 (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)