The dissociations that result from developmental psychopathologies (Down syndrome, etc.) have been one of the main sources of evidence for breaking up the mind into pieces – that is, for identifying the components of the typical cognitive architecture. But is this practice justified? Do these dissociations really provide evidence about …
Check out PhilPapers, a new philosophy online resources created by David Chalmers and David Bourget. (HT: Leiter Reports.)
Philosophy journals are notoriously slow in processing submissions. They often take a year or so to decide whether to accept a paper, and when they reject, they often give no useful feedback to the author. At the same time, editors complain about the increasing number of submissions – most of which …
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Gualtiero’s recent post “Classicism, Connectionism, and the Harmonic Mind” has produced some great discussion, and I thought I would pick up a challenge that Edouard made in one of the comments, namely: providing a concrete example where we seem to know a lot about “how the representations involved in higher …
The Saint Louis Area Philosophy of Science Association will hold its first conference (SLAPSA1) on Saturday, Febraruary 28, 2009. The keynote speaker will be PAUL WEYRICH (University of Missouri). The meeting will be held on the campus of Washington University, in room 104 of Wilson Hall.The schedule of speakers and …
This NEH Institute might be of interest to some readers of Brains: Experimental Philosophy is a new movement that uses experiments to address traditional philosophical questions. Although the movement is only a few years old, it has attracted prolific practitioners as well as ardent critics. (For more about Experimental Philosophy, see the recent article in …
