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Philosophy Comix

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Logic & Language

GET FUZZY: Bucky unwittingly affirms the consequent ***
DILBERT: ignoratio elenchi: Dilbert misses the point ***
MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM: ambiguity -- now that's a twist ***
THE LOCKHORNS: Leroy resembles that remark, Loretta's enthymeme hits him ***
OVERBOARD: Louie extrapolates from an ambiguity of "good" ***
MR BOFFO: Analyticity/"Tautology" *
from The New Yorker: Nouns v. Names
FRANK & ERNEST: Two ways to get the money out of politics.
from The New Yorker: Culinary Mistake as Category Mistake
GARFIELD: Conversational Implicature: Irony or Sarcasm
OVERBOARD: Louie notes an ambiguity of "good"
FOXTROT: Jason ponders vagueness.
MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM: Beware of pun.
THE LOCKHORNS: Loretta, a walking, shopping, contradiction in terms.
THE LOCKHORNS: Ambiguity: Nothing is better than Loretta's pie.
THE LOCKHORNS: Leroy ponders induction in the morning.
FARCUS: One's modus ponens is another's modus tollens
SHOE: Ambiguity
from The New Yorker: Metaphor: Idiom
from The New Yorker: Pragmatic "Analyticity"
LUANN: False Cause
from The New Yorker: Analyticity: "Contradiction in Terms"
WILLIE & ETHEL: Contra Compositionality: Type v Token
DENNIS THE MENACE: Induction: Mill's method of residues
IN THE BLEACHERS: Amphiboly & Syntactic Ambiguity
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE: Fallacy of Composition
LUANN: Equivocation: Adjectival Ambiguity
THE LOCKHORNS: Leroy ponders causation & analyticity all night long.
PEANUTS: False Cause: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

Philosophy of Mind

HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET: The Turing Test**
from The New Yorker: Animal Intelligence (smart dog)
FOXTROT: Jason tries the Chinese Room thing
MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM: Learning. Acting on vs. acting in accord with a rule.
from The New Yorker: Animal Intelligence
BIZARRO: Why Vampires aren't Zombies. Person as a "forensic concept".
from The New Yorker: Animal Intelligence
FRANK & ERNEST: The Mind-Body Problem
FRANK & ERNEST: AI: Natural Language Processing (NLP)
FRANK & ERNEST: Personal Identity: the Brain Criterion vs the Forensic Conception
FRANK & ERNEST: Corporate Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
from The New Yorker: Metaphor; AI v "As-If Intentionality"; Survival (the afterlife)
FRANK & ERNEST: Animal Intelligence
DENNIS THE MENACE: Other Minds
CALVIN & HOBBES: Personal Identity
SHOE: Robot Cats from Mars?
MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM: Zombie Encounter Groups

Ethics & Socio-Political

NON SEQUITUR: The Truth About Business Ethics? ***
9 TO 5: Money does grow on trees! *
from The New Yorker: Animal Interests, Vegetarianism, &Genetic Engineering
from The New Yorker: professional ethics
from The New Yorker: Moral Responsibility (animals)
from The New Yorker: Moral Responsibility (children)
from The New Yorker: Medical Ethics: the distinction between necessary and discretionary treatment
from The New Yorker: Medical Ethics: poetic justice for Harry & Louise
FAIR GAME: The Meaning of Life Revealed
FAIR GAME: Morality and Driving: "the moral issues raised by driving a car . . . are much more serious than those raised by sex" (Peter Singer, Practical Ethics 2nd Edition, p. 2)
OVERBOARD: Louie notes an ambiguity of "good"
from The New Yorker: Moses Proposes the Divine Command Theory
from The New Yorker: Excessively Civil Disobedience
from The New Yorker: Equality & Moral Luck.
from The New Yorker: Vegetarianism
from The New Yorker: Environmental Ethics & Business "Ethics"
DILBERT: Business "Ethics": Quality is in the eyes of the Marketing Dept.
FOXTROT: Egoism v Utilitarianism (perhaps)
OVERBOARD: Sometimes good is bad.
from The Detroit Free Press: Affirmative Action

Eastern Philosophy

from The New Yorker: The Wisdom of the East?

Jobs for Philosophers

DOONESBURY: Hegelian Preferred?
SPEEDBUMP: Philosophize and Cut Bait

History of Philosophy

from Susan Montag: Nietzsche is Dead ***
from Susan Montag: Nietzchean Superman ***
from The New Yorker: "Sex has never done a man any good, and he is lucky if it has not harmed him" (Epicurus) *
MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM: Popeye studies Descartes
OVERBOARD: Buridan's Dog *
from The New Yorker: "If God acts for the sake of an end, he [must] want something that he lacks." (Spinoza)**
OVERBOARD: Theodicy **
OVERBOARD: Stoic Theodicy **

Metaphysics & Epistemology

LOOSE PARTS: skepticism in practice
from The New Yorker: animism v. Berkeley
from The New Yorker: A Future Epistemologist
from The New Yorker: Universals and Particulars
from The New Yorker: Objects v. Events
from The New Yorker: It's a miracle!
MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM: Causation

Aesthetics

GET FUZZY: taste isn't THAT subjective ***

Philosophy of Sport

from The New Yorker: Why baseball wasn't Rome's imperial pastime
from The New Yorker: Warming up in the bullpen . . . literally
from The New Yorker: When games weren't.

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