ABSTRACT

Philosophy and Mystification reflects on the nature, methods and resources of philosophic enquiry are carefully grounded in the central problems that have dogged Western philosophy in the modern era: logical necessity, machine intelligence, the relation of science and religion, determinism, scepticism and the questions of foundations and origins.

chapter 1|26 pages

Understanding nonsense

chapter 2|20 pages

Following and formalization

chapter 3|16 pages

Infinity

chapter 4|16 pages

Miracles

chapter 5|16 pages

How to tell your friends from machines

chapter 6|20 pages

Nature and necessity

chapter 7|18 pages

Skepticism about skepticism

chapter 8|16 pages

Fool’s intelligence

chapter 9|14 pages

Language and the society of others

chapter 11|18 pages

On misunderstanding science

chapter 12|24 pages

History and human nature

chapter 14|26 pages

Coda: philosophy and history