The theory of the mind has many philosophers banging their heads against the wall.  Especially physicalists who face the problem that, if everything in the universe is physical, then how does one explain mental cognition? Or qualia?

According to David Hume there is no "self" and we are just a bundle of perceptions at any given moment. Immanuel Kant disagreed with this and outlined his concept of a persistent self.

Can Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative be combined with John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism to solve the Trolley Problem?

Back in the 1970s, philosopher Hilary Putnam called the argument that computers can't think because they don't have wet brains like ours "hydrocarbon chauvinism".

In building our robot and gifting it with a consciousness we look first at Cartesian Dualism and then the Identity Theory of Mind to help us out.

We may be biological robots but are we more than our programming? If so, can we create a robot that deserves the same distinction, or rights, as we do?

While Schrodinger's cat was meant to show the strangeness of quantum entanglement and the collapse of waveforms into one state or another, it also opens the door for some unique philosophical questions.

David Hilbert was a german mathematician who, in the 1920's constructed a hotel. A massive hotel of the grandest scale and with an infinite number of rooms.

According to William James, truth has nothing to do with facts. Truth has everything to do with belief.

Mary is a neuroscientist who is very good at her job. She knows practically everything there is to know about the physical aspects of the brain as well as how it responds to external stimuli. Mary's specialty is colors. She knows everything there is t