Philosophy From A to Z

All human thinking proceeds by means of 'concepts'. Find out why. Series courtesy of Robert Hanna, Ph.D.

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Artificial intelligence, aka AI (strong thesis)

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Dec 12, 2025 — 5 min read

Artificial intelligence, aka AI (strong thesis): the two-part thesis which says (i) that rational human intelligence can be explanatorily and ontologically reduced to Turing-computable algorithms and the operations of digital computers ...

Animal

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Dec 11, 2025 — 5 min read

Animal: any organism with an innately specified capacity for sentience.

Gödel’s incompleteness theorems

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Dec 10, 2025 — 11 min read

Turing machines

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Dec 9, 2025 — 4 min read

A Posteriori — A Priori

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Dec 8, 2025 — 3 min read

Consciousness

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Dec 7, 2025 — 3 min read

Cartesian Dualism

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Dec 6, 2025 — 3 min read

Analytic-Synthetic

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Dec 5, 2025 — 10 min read

Supervenience, Strong Logical

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Dec 3, 2025 — 2 min read

Supervenience, Strong

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Dec 3, 2025 — 2 min read

Supervenience, Strong Natural or Nomological

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Dec 2, 2025 — 2 min read

Supervenience, Weak

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Dec 1, 2025 — 2 min read

Continental Philosophy

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 30, 2025 — 4 min read

Introduction

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 30, 2025 — 3 min read

Analytic Philosophy

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 29, 2025 — 10 min read

Mind

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 27, 2025 — 11 min read

Objective (used as an adjective or as an adverb):

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 26, 2025 — 5 min read

Abstract (used as an adjective):

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 25, 2025 — 7 min read

Dignity

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 24, 2025 — 14 min read

Distributive Social Justice

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 23, 2025 — 7 min read

Intentional Action

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 22, 2025 — 8 min read

Free Agency

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 21, 2025 — 15 min read

Epistemology

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 20, 2025 — 2 min read

Intentionality

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 19, 2025 — 2 min read

Knowledge

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 18, 2025 — 28 min read

Cognition

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 17, 2025 — 3 min read

Ethics

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 16, 2025 — 2 min read

Meaning of life, the

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 15, 2025 — 4 min read

Morality

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 14, 2025 — 4 min read

Artificial intelligence, aka AI (weak thesis)

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Nov 13, 2025 — 2 min read

Anarchism

by Robert Hanna in Philosophy From A to Z Mar 28, 2023 — 14 min read

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