Recent posts
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The vagueness challenge to computational theories of consciousness
Video of a short talk I gave at the Philosophy of AI conference at the Technion, Israel, in June 2026. Drawing on the concept of vagueness, an argument is presented for the conclusion that the nature of consciousness cannot be computational.
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Why anti-antizionists are wrong about the meaning of ‘antisemitism’
Some inside baseball regarding the anti-antizionists’ bid to redefine “antisemitism” to mean classical antisemitism.” I argue that the idea is ill-conceived.
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Where’s the evidence?
A common strategy of the “New Atheists” (Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, and others) was to demand that believers provide strong evidence for God’s existence while at the same time insisting that no evidence is needed for God’s non-existence. But can that be right? I argue that it isn’t.
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On why the hyphen in ‘anti-Semitism’ was dropped
There was a push beginning in the 1980s to remove the hyphen from ‘anti-Semitism’. That effort succeeded. Now anti-antizionists urge that, for similar reasons, the hyphen should be dropped from ‘anti-Zionism’. But what were the original reasons for dropping the hyphen from ‘anti-Semitism’? Were they any good? Here I offer some preliminary thoughts.