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By: Graham Culbertson
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  • Halfway between poetry and mathematics, AIdeas brings you the concepts from philosophy and science fiction which make sense of AI - and the concepts from AI which will help you understand the philosophy of thinking. Please believe in other minds.
    Copyright 2023 Graham Culbertson
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Episodes
  • Why Have There Been No Great Women Philosophers of Mind?

    Why Have There Been No Great Women Philosophers of Mind?
    Jan 23 2023

    Since at least Mary Shelley, women have been brilliantly writing about minds and consciousness. But very few of them have been "philosophers of mind." I'm not really sure why, but I know it's philosophy's fault

    The intro and outro music is from Domenico Gabrielli's ricercar, performed on solo cello by Debbie Davis
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    11 mins
  • Frankenstein and AI with Eileen Hunt

    Frankenstein and AI with Eileen Hunt
    Jan 9 2023

    This episode's guest is Eileen Hunt, a professor of political theory at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Artificial Life after Frankenstein.

    Eileen and I discuss a number of topics related to AI and Frankenstein, including:

    • Mary Shelley's upbringing as the daughter of two radical thinkers
    • The political and literary influences on the novel
    • The role of parenting in the novel
    • The similarities between

    The intro and outro music is from Domenico Gabrielli's ricercar, performed on solo cello by Debbie Davis
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    49 mins
  • Ayer's Sociopaths

    Ayer's Sociopaths
    Nov 7 2022

    Philosophy used to be the search for wisdom, but it's become a search for certainty. And if you send an AI on a search for certainty, you'll probably create a sociopath

    The intro and outro music is from Domenico Gabrielli's ricercar, performed on solo cello by Debbie Davis
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    10 mins
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