In this paper I shall address an issue in philosophy of mind related to philosophy of mathematics... more In this paper I shall address an issue in philosophy of mind related to philosophy of mathematics, or more specifically to the nature of mathematical knowledge and reasoning. The issue concerns whether the human mind is fully algorithmic. I shall develop my answer against the background which is created by Kurt Godel’s celebrated incompleteness theorems. In what follows: (i) I shall first sketch the main programs and responses to the mind-body problem in philosophy of mind; (ii) then, I shall provide an informal overview of the two Godelian incompleteness theorems; (iii) finally, I shall present and comment upon some of the main views advocated by Godel about minds and machines, mind and matter, and the contrast between Turing machines and the so-called Godel minds. In the process, Godel’s very unorthodox and unfashionable views against computabilism, neuralism, physicalism, psychoneural parallelism, and even against the underlying philosophical presuppositions of the Turing machines will emerge. Shocking as they, understandably, are, as compared to the standard psychological and philosophical orthodoxy underlying the received computabilistic views on mind, Godel’s own views are worth exploring and they fully deserve our undivided philosophical attention. Godel is, after all, the founding father and one of the essential inspiring sources for the whole domain and range of topics that I address in my paper.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, May 1, 2013
Explaining phenomenal consciousness may very well be the scientific and philosophical problem of ... more Explaining phenomenal consciousness may very well be the scientific and philosophical problem of our age. There is a conceptual tension which makes the task of giving a unitary explanation to the mind and to the physical world one of the most persistent and intriguing enigma. The predominant outlook about the natural world is of a physical kind. However, the mind and especially the conscious subjective experience do not seem to fit within this naturalist and physicalist explanation. It appears that we are caught in a dilemma, for we either stick to a physicalist explanation, or else we should figure out a dramatic change of our conception about the natural world.
This paper argues that in order to articulate the logical principles which govern the meaningful ... more This paper argues that in order to articulate the logical principles which govern the meaningful discourse on fictional objects what we need is a sort of positive free logic with free descriptions; for we want at least some sentences containing fictional terms to be true in intended interpretations (‘in the story’, ‘in the novel’, and the like). The proposal is that a brand of positive free logic will help us to make sense of our semantic intuitions that according to the background discourse sentences in which fictional terms occur may very well be true, even if the supposed existential assumptions on which descriptions are built are not satisfied.
... Page 2. 98 MIRCEA DUMITRU Y FREDERICK KROON attended Kripke's arguments for a direct... more ... Page 2. 98 MIRCEA DUMITRU Y FREDERICK KROON attended Kripke's arguments for a direct reference account of names, there is now something approaching orthodoxy about the semantic ... 120 (diciembre 2008) Page 4. 100 MIRCEA DUMITRU Y FREDERICK KROON ...
Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu, 2009
Abstract: The general slogan in the title of this paper (which is taken from Strawson 1952, 57) g... more Abstract: The general slogan in the title of this paper (which is taken from Strawson 1952, 57) gives a general, but nevertheless accurate, expression of Strawson's view concerning the nature of formal logic per se in relation to natural language. What is at stake here is the extent to ...
Etude de la theorie de la signification developpee par D. Davidson a partir de la theorie tarskie... more Etude de la theorie de la signification developpee par D. Davidson a partir de la theorie tarskienne de la verite des langages formels. Examinant la critique des autres theories de la signification fondees sur la signification, l'A. montre que la semantique des conditions de verite proposee par Davidson ne presente pas les vertus homophoniques des theories fondees sur l'intention
the paper discusses an original and ingenious puzzle about time and thought due to Saul kripke. i... more the paper discusses an original and ingenious puzzle about time and thought due to Saul kripke. its connections with related issues and puz‐ zles such as Russell’s paradox and Kaplan’s puzzle are addressed and ex‐ plored. The problems raised by the puzzle are dealt with briefly, emphasizing the comparative worth of Kripke’s findings in terms of simplicity and mod‐ esty of its assumptions. Then the attempted solutions are analyzed and ex‐ plored, the most important and promising avenue for future work being the extension of the apparatus developed by Kripke in his groundbreaking paper on truth to intensional logic.
XIV Romanian Conference of Psychiatry – v-CNP 2021 Romanian Association of Psychiatry and Psychot... more XIV Romanian Conference of Psychiatry – v-CNP 2021 Romanian Association of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bucharest, Romania 14-17 July 2021 Plenary Symposium on Psychiatry and Philosophy Symposium Title: “‘The Return of the Repressed’: Why Psychiatry Needs – and Cannot Avoid – Philosophy” If anyone thinks he can exclude philosophy and leave it aside as useless he will be eventually defeated by it in some obscure form or other. – Karl Jaspers, General Psychopathology (1913) Introductions: Doina Cosman, President of the Congress: 2-5 minutes Welcome & presentation of participants Vincenzo Di Nicola, Chair 5 minutes Title: “‘The Return of the Repressed’: Why Freud’s Phrase Still Haunts Psychiatry and Philosophy” Presentations: 15 minutes each x 5 75 minutes (Suggested order and time allotment) Mircea Dumitru Title: “ ” Bill (KWM) Fulford Title: “Why Psychiatry Needs – and Should Actively Embrace – Philosophy” Virgil Ciomoș Title: “From Phenomenology to Psychoanalysis and Back: The Return of the Repressed in Schizophrenia” Drozdstoj Stoyanov Title: “Philosophy of Science and Psychiatry: Revisiting Methods and Taxonomy” Vincenzo Di Nicola Title: “Philosophy and Psychiatry from the Standpoint of the Event” Discussant: Eliot Sorel 10 minutes Audience questions/exchanges among participants: Chaired by Di Nicola 25 minutes Brief Abstract This symposium convokes a distinguished international panel of psychiatrists and philosophers to discuss the proposition that psychiatry needs – and cannot avoid – philosophy. Philosopher Mircea Dumitru (University of Bucharest) addresses methodological issues raised by theoretical models of psychopathology, focusing on issues in philosophy of mind arising from the cognitive-behavioral model. This is counterbalanced by philosopher Virgil Ciomoș (Babeș-Bolyai University) who re-interprets schizophrenia from phenomenological and Lacanian psychoanalytic perspectives. Three psychiatrists deeply engaged in philosophy, Bill Fulford (Oxford University), Vincenzo Di Nicola (University of Montreal), and Drozdstoj Stoyanov (Medical University of Plovdiv) present positions that straddle analytic philosophy (Fulford, Stoyanov) and Continental philosophy (Di Nicola). Fulford reviews developments at Oxford, notably values-based practice, arguing that psychiatry should actively embrace philosophy. Stoyanov argues for an epistemological basis of psychiatry’s methodological crisis, while Di Nicola outlines the ontological roots of psychiatry’s crisis and calls for a new psychiatry based on the Event. Keywords: Psychopathology, philosophy of mind, Lacanian post-phenomenology, values, translational research, epistemology, ontology, the Badiouan Event, evental psychiatry References Ciomoș, V. ed. (2020). Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. International Journal on Humanistic Ideology, 1 and 2. Di Nicola, V., and Stoyanov, D. (2021). Psychiatry in Crisis: At the Crossroads of Social Science, The Humanities, and Neuroscience. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. Dumitru, M., ed. (2020). Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality. Themes from Kit Fine. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Fulford, K.W.M., Thornton, T., and Graham, G., eds. (2006). The Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
In Cercetări filosofice (CF), §97, Wittgenstein conturează una dintre cele mai pregnante imagini ... more In Cercetări filosofice (CF), §97, Wittgenstein conturează una dintre cele mai pregnante imagini posibile despre idealul clasic al conceptului logicităţii, concept pe care-l imbrăţisează el insusi in Tractatus logico-philosophicus (TLP), dar ale cărui presupoziţii le expune in CF pentru a se delimita si desprinde, mai apoi, de ele.
In this paper I shall address an issue in philosophy of mind related to philosophy of mathematics... more In this paper I shall address an issue in philosophy of mind related to philosophy of mathematics, or more specifically to the nature of mathematical knowledge and reasoning. The issue concerns whether the human mind is fully algorithmic. I shall develop my answer against the background which is created by Kurt Godel’s celebrated incompleteness theorems. In what follows: (i) I shall first sketch the main programs and responses to the mind-body problem in philosophy of mind; (ii) then, I shall provide an informal overview of the two Godelian incompleteness theorems; (iii) finally, I shall present and comment upon some of the main views advocated by Godel about minds and machines, mind and matter, and the contrast between Turing machines and the so-called Godel minds. In the process, Godel’s very unorthodox and unfashionable views against computabilism, neuralism, physicalism, psychoneural parallelism, and even against the underlying philosophical presuppositions of the Turing machines will emerge. Shocking as they, understandably, are, as compared to the standard psychological and philosophical orthodoxy underlying the received computabilistic views on mind, Godel’s own views are worth exploring and they fully deserve our undivided philosophical attention. Godel is, after all, the founding father and one of the essential inspiring sources for the whole domain and range of topics that I address in my paper.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, May 1, 2013
Explaining phenomenal consciousness may very well be the scientific and philosophical problem of ... more Explaining phenomenal consciousness may very well be the scientific and philosophical problem of our age. There is a conceptual tension which makes the task of giving a unitary explanation to the mind and to the physical world one of the most persistent and intriguing enigma. The predominant outlook about the natural world is of a physical kind. However, the mind and especially the conscious subjective experience do not seem to fit within this naturalist and physicalist explanation. It appears that we are caught in a dilemma, for we either stick to a physicalist explanation, or else we should figure out a dramatic change of our conception about the natural world.
This paper argues that in order to articulate the logical principles which govern the meaningful ... more This paper argues that in order to articulate the logical principles which govern the meaningful discourse on fictional objects what we need is a sort of positive free logic with free descriptions; for we want at least some sentences containing fictional terms to be true in intended interpretations (‘in the story’, ‘in the novel’, and the like). The proposal is that a brand of positive free logic will help us to make sense of our semantic intuitions that according to the background discourse sentences in which fictional terms occur may very well be true, even if the supposed existential assumptions on which descriptions are built are not satisfied.
... Page 2. 98 MIRCEA DUMITRU Y FREDERICK KROON attended Kripke's arguments for a direct... more ... Page 2. 98 MIRCEA DUMITRU Y FREDERICK KROON attended Kripke's arguments for a direct reference account of names, there is now something approaching orthodoxy about the semantic ... 120 (diciembre 2008) Page 4. 100 MIRCEA DUMITRU Y FREDERICK KROON ...
Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu, 2009
Abstract: The general slogan in the title of this paper (which is taken from Strawson 1952, 57) g... more Abstract: The general slogan in the title of this paper (which is taken from Strawson 1952, 57) gives a general, but nevertheless accurate, expression of Strawson's view concerning the nature of formal logic per se in relation to natural language. What is at stake here is the extent to ...
Etude de la theorie de la signification developpee par D. Davidson a partir de la theorie tarskie... more Etude de la theorie de la signification developpee par D. Davidson a partir de la theorie tarskienne de la verite des langages formels. Examinant la critique des autres theories de la signification fondees sur la signification, l'A. montre que la semantique des conditions de verite proposee par Davidson ne presente pas les vertus homophoniques des theories fondees sur l'intention
the paper discusses an original and ingenious puzzle about time and thought due to Saul kripke. i... more the paper discusses an original and ingenious puzzle about time and thought due to Saul kripke. its connections with related issues and puz‐ zles such as Russell’s paradox and Kaplan’s puzzle are addressed and ex‐ plored. The problems raised by the puzzle are dealt with briefly, emphasizing the comparative worth of Kripke’s findings in terms of simplicity and mod‐ esty of its assumptions. Then the attempted solutions are analyzed and ex‐ plored, the most important and promising avenue for future work being the extension of the apparatus developed by Kripke in his groundbreaking paper on truth to intensional logic.
XIV Romanian Conference of Psychiatry – v-CNP 2021 Romanian Association of Psychiatry and Psychot... more XIV Romanian Conference of Psychiatry – v-CNP 2021 Romanian Association of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bucharest, Romania 14-17 July 2021 Plenary Symposium on Psychiatry and Philosophy Symposium Title: “‘The Return of the Repressed’: Why Psychiatry Needs – and Cannot Avoid – Philosophy” If anyone thinks he can exclude philosophy and leave it aside as useless he will be eventually defeated by it in some obscure form or other. – Karl Jaspers, General Psychopathology (1913) Introductions: Doina Cosman, President of the Congress: 2-5 minutes Welcome & presentation of participants Vincenzo Di Nicola, Chair 5 minutes Title: “‘The Return of the Repressed’: Why Freud’s Phrase Still Haunts Psychiatry and Philosophy” Presentations: 15 minutes each x 5 75 minutes (Suggested order and time allotment) Mircea Dumitru Title: “ ” Bill (KWM) Fulford Title: “Why Psychiatry Needs – and Should Actively Embrace – Philosophy” Virgil Ciomoș Title: “From Phenomenology to Psychoanalysis and Back: The Return of the Repressed in Schizophrenia” Drozdstoj Stoyanov Title: “Philosophy of Science and Psychiatry: Revisiting Methods and Taxonomy” Vincenzo Di Nicola Title: “Philosophy and Psychiatry from the Standpoint of the Event” Discussant: Eliot Sorel 10 minutes Audience questions/exchanges among participants: Chaired by Di Nicola 25 minutes Brief Abstract This symposium convokes a distinguished international panel of psychiatrists and philosophers to discuss the proposition that psychiatry needs – and cannot avoid – philosophy. Philosopher Mircea Dumitru (University of Bucharest) addresses methodological issues raised by theoretical models of psychopathology, focusing on issues in philosophy of mind arising from the cognitive-behavioral model. This is counterbalanced by philosopher Virgil Ciomoș (Babeș-Bolyai University) who re-interprets schizophrenia from phenomenological and Lacanian psychoanalytic perspectives. Three psychiatrists deeply engaged in philosophy, Bill Fulford (Oxford University), Vincenzo Di Nicola (University of Montreal), and Drozdstoj Stoyanov (Medical University of Plovdiv) present positions that straddle analytic philosophy (Fulford, Stoyanov) and Continental philosophy (Di Nicola). Fulford reviews developments at Oxford, notably values-based practice, arguing that psychiatry should actively embrace philosophy. Stoyanov argues for an epistemological basis of psychiatry’s methodological crisis, while Di Nicola outlines the ontological roots of psychiatry’s crisis and calls for a new psychiatry based on the Event. Keywords: Psychopathology, philosophy of mind, Lacanian post-phenomenology, values, translational research, epistemology, ontology, the Badiouan Event, evental psychiatry References Ciomoș, V. ed. (2020). Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. International Journal on Humanistic Ideology, 1 and 2. Di Nicola, V., and Stoyanov, D. (2021). Psychiatry in Crisis: At the Crossroads of Social Science, The Humanities, and Neuroscience. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. Dumitru, M., ed. (2020). Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality. Themes from Kit Fine. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Fulford, K.W.M., Thornton, T., and Graham, G., eds. (2006). The Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
In Cercetări filosofice (CF), §97, Wittgenstein conturează una dintre cele mai pregnante imagini ... more In Cercetări filosofice (CF), §97, Wittgenstein conturează una dintre cele mai pregnante imagini posibile despre idealul clasic al conceptului logicităţii, concept pe care-l imbrăţisează el insusi in Tractatus logico-philosophicus (TLP), dar ale cărui presupoziţii le expune in CF pentru a se delimita si desprinde, mai apoi, de ele.
XIV Romanian Conference of Psychiatry – v-CNP 2021
Romanian Association of Psychiatry and Psychot... more XIV Romanian Conference of Psychiatry – v-CNP 2021 Romanian Association of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bucharest, Romania 14-17 July 2021
Plenary Symposium on Psychiatry and Philosophy
Symposium Title:
“‘The Return of the Repressed’: Why Psychiatry Needs – and Cannot Avoid – Philosophy”
If anyone thinks he can exclude philosophy and leave it aside as useless he will be eventually defeated by it in some obscure form or other. – Karl Jaspers, General Psychopathology (1913)
Introductions:
Doina Cosman, President of the Congress: 2-5 minutes Welcome & presentation of participants Vincenzo Di Nicola, Chair 5 minutes Title: “‘The Return of the Repressed’: Why Freud’s Phrase Still Haunts Psychiatry and Philosophy”
Presentations: 15 minutes each x 5 75 minutes (Suggested order and time allotment)
Mircea Dumitru Title: “ ”
Bill (KWM) Fulford Title: “Why Psychiatry Needs – and Should Actively Embrace – Philosophy”
Virgil Ciomoș Title: “From Phenomenology to Psychoanalysis and Back: The Return of the Repressed in Schizophrenia”
Drozdstoj Stoyanov Title: “Philosophy of Science and Psychiatry: Revisiting Methods and Taxonomy”
Vincenzo Di Nicola Title: “Philosophy and Psychiatry from the Standpoint of the Event”
Discussant: Eliot Sorel 10 minutes
Audience questions/exchanges among participants: Chaired by Di Nicola 25 minutes
Brief Abstract
This symposium convokes a distinguished international panel of psychiatrists and philosophers to discuss the proposition that psychiatry needs – and cannot avoid – philosophy. Philosopher Mircea Dumitru (University of Bucharest) addresses methodological issues raised by theoretical models of psychopathology, focusing on issues in philosophy of mind arising from the cognitive-behavioral model. This is counterbalanced by philosopher Virgil Ciomoș (Babeș-Bolyai University) who re-interprets schizophrenia from phenomenological and Lacanian psychoanalytic perspectives. Three psychiatrists deeply engaged in philosophy, Bill Fulford (Oxford University), Vincenzo Di Nicola (University of Montreal), and Drozdstoj Stoyanov (Medical University of Plovdiv) present positions that straddle analytic philosophy (Fulford, Stoyanov) and Continental philosophy (Di Nicola). Fulford reviews developments at Oxford, notably values-based practice, arguing that psychiatry should actively embrace philosophy. Stoyanov argues for an epistemological basis of psychiatry’s methodological crisis, while Di Nicola outlines the ontological roots of psychiatry’s crisis and calls for a new psychiatry based on the Event. Keywords: Psychopathology, philosophy of mind, Lacanian post-phenomenology, values, translational research, epistemology, ontology, the Badiouan Event, evental psychiatry
References
Ciomoș, V. ed. (2020). Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. International Journal on Humanistic Ideology, 1 and 2.
Di Nicola, V., and Stoyanov, D. (2021). Psychiatry in Crisis: At the Crossroads of Social Science, The Humanities, and Neuroscience. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.
Dumitru, M., ed. (2020). Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality. Themes from Kit Fine. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Fulford, K.W.M., Thornton, T., and Graham, G., eds. (2006). The Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Romanian Association of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Bucharest, Romania
14-17 July 2021
Plenary Symposium on Psychiatry and Philosophy
Symposium Title:
“‘The Return of the Repressed’: Why Psychiatry Needs – and Cannot Avoid – Philosophy”
If anyone thinks he can exclude philosophy and leave it aside as useless he will be eventually defeated by it in some obscure form or other.
– Karl Jaspers, General Psychopathology (1913)
Introductions:
Doina Cosman, President of the Congress: 2-5 minutes
Welcome & presentation of participants
Vincenzo Di Nicola, Chair 5 minutes
Title: “‘The Return of the Repressed’:
Why Freud’s Phrase Still Haunts Psychiatry and Philosophy”
Presentations: 15 minutes each x 5 75 minutes
(Suggested order and time allotment)
Mircea Dumitru
Title: “ ”
Bill (KWM) Fulford
Title: “Why Psychiatry Needs – and Should Actively Embrace – Philosophy”
Virgil Ciomoș
Title: “From Phenomenology to Psychoanalysis and Back: The Return of the Repressed in Schizophrenia”
Drozdstoj Stoyanov
Title: “Philosophy of Science and Psychiatry: Revisiting Methods and Taxonomy”
Vincenzo Di Nicola
Title: “Philosophy and Psychiatry from the Standpoint of the Event”
Discussant: Eliot Sorel 10 minutes
Audience questions/exchanges among participants:
Chaired by Di Nicola 25 minutes
Brief Abstract
This symposium convokes a distinguished international panel of psychiatrists and philosophers to discuss the proposition that psychiatry needs – and cannot avoid – philosophy. Philosopher Mircea Dumitru (University of Bucharest) addresses methodological issues raised by theoretical models of psychopathology, focusing on issues in philosophy of mind arising from the cognitive-behavioral model. This is counterbalanced by philosopher Virgil Ciomoș (Babeș-Bolyai University) who re-interprets schizophrenia from phenomenological and Lacanian psychoanalytic perspectives. Three psychiatrists deeply engaged in philosophy, Bill Fulford (Oxford University), Vincenzo Di Nicola (University of Montreal), and Drozdstoj Stoyanov (Medical University of Plovdiv) present positions that straddle analytic philosophy (Fulford, Stoyanov) and Continental philosophy (Di Nicola). Fulford reviews developments at Oxford, notably values-based practice, arguing that psychiatry should actively embrace philosophy. Stoyanov argues for an epistemological basis of psychiatry’s methodological crisis, while Di Nicola outlines the ontological roots of psychiatry’s crisis and calls for a new psychiatry based on the Event.
Keywords: Psychopathology, philosophy of mind, Lacanian post-phenomenology, values, translational research, epistemology, ontology, the Badiouan Event, evental psychiatry
References
Ciomoș, V. ed. (2020). Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. International Journal on Humanistic Ideology, 1 and 2.
Di Nicola, V., and Stoyanov, D. (2021). Psychiatry in Crisis: At the Crossroads of Social Science, The Humanities, and Neuroscience. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.
Dumitru, M., ed. (2020). Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality. Themes from Kit Fine. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Fulford, K.W.M., Thornton, T., and Graham, G., eds. (2006). The Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.