David DennenIntroduction to the “Reading Dewey’s Logic” Video SeriesTo my mind, John Dewey is the greatest philosopher the United States has produced. He is simply unmatched in terms of the range of…2 min read·Jan 27, 2024----
David DennenSome Logico-Empirical Aspects of the Phrase “Could Have Acted Otherwise”Free will (and thus moral responsibility) has often been defined by the criterion that “one could have acted/done otherwise.”4 min read·Dec 14, 2023----
David DennenAsserting vs. Reading: Or, Why Academic Presentations SuckI teach a conference-speaking class every year. I attend a number of academic conferences every year. I often listen to or watch recordings…4 min read·Dec 11, 2023----
David DennenIs Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument about Knowledge?Frank Jackson’s “Knowledge Argument” against physicalism, also known as the “Mary’s Room Argument,” has been much discussed. Jackson first…12 min read·Oct 27, 2023----
David DennenWhat “Self” and “Consciousness” Mean to an Old-School Pragmatist-BehavioristThe goal of this short essay is to lay out some basic pragmatist concepts for making sense of “self” and “consciousness.”9 min read·Apr 10, 2023----
David DennenAre (LLM) Chatbots Conscious?Is it possible for an artificial intelligence to become really conscious? Are some AIs already conscious, as at least a few people think…15 min read·Mar 7, 2023----
David DennenDerrida’s Two Kinds of ReadingDeconstruction as a two-stage approach to literary interpretation.14 min read·Feb 26, 2023--1--1
David DennenThe Ethics of Critical Engagement: Vitality, Justice, Understanding, OverstandingDoes criticism have an ethics? Should it? Back in 1979, the literary critic Wayne Booth published a book called Critical Understanding…15 min read·Sep 27, 2022----
David DennenTwo Tales of Bullying: James Feibleman and Audre LordeThere are two tales of bullying from the philosophical literature which have stuck with me over the years.7 min read·Sep 12, 2022----
David DennenBehaviorism’s Resolution of Psychology’s IncoherenceOn the incoherences in traditional psychology and how behaviorism tried to resolve them.7 min read·Sep 2, 2022----