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Making Robots Conscious of their Mental States
Article by Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy (dated 19-Jul-1999).
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/consciousness.html
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The Language of Thought Hypothesis
Entry in the Stanford Encyclopaedia by Murat Aydede, surveying the arguments for and against the proposition that thoughts are expressed in a mental language.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/
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Fodor and Psychological Explanations
Report by John Perry and David Israel on Jerry Fodor's philosophy of mind, especially focussing on his remarks about Mentalese and content.
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~john/israel/fodor/fodor.html
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Private Language
Entry from the Stanford Encyclopaedeia of Philosophy.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Cosmology and Theology
Reasoning known as the cosmological argument attempts to justify belief in God by pointing to the existence of the cosmos, its causal orderliness, and alleged evidence of its being in some sense designed to include life and intelligence.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmology-theology/
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Pascal's Wager
Argument due to Blaise Pascal for believing, or for at least taking steps to believe, in God. Encyclopedia entry by Alan Hájek.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Ontological Arguments
A survey by Graham Oppy of arguments for God's existence that do not proceed from observation of the world around us.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments/
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Theological Voluntarism
Survey of divine command theory by Mark Murphy.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/voluntarism-theological/
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Immutability
Entry by Brian Leftow on the doctrine that God cannot undergo real change.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/immutability/
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Omnipotence
The theistic thesis that God has maximal power. By Joshua Hoffman and Gary Rosenkrantz.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/omnipotence/
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