19-21 May 2011San Jose (Andalucia, Spain)2nd call for papersResearchers are invited to submit full papers or long abstracts for 40-minute presentations on conceptual, empirical or modeling issues that arise in the treatment of the systematicity challenge from post-connectionist approaches such as behavior-based AI, ecological psychology, embodied and distributed cognition, dynamical …
I’ve had a Gibsonian ask me about this device. I say it’s an information processor (not in the technical Shannon sense) and an analog computer. Other opinions? Wikipedia description.
Philosophy TV is a Bloggingheads kind of deal just for philosophy. It is run (I think) by some grad students at Wisconsin. It apparently goes live on September 6 with Peter Singer and Michael Slote. Then on September 9 it is Andy Egan and Josh Knobe. Alas, it hits a …
I know that most folks get their conference CFPs, etc. from other sources, but this one seems to me a) to be flying a little low on the radar and b) to be pretty cool. I went to one of these a long time ago in Florence, which was both …
In other Aizawa-relevant news, Steven Philips and Williams Wilson have a new theory of the systematicity of thought based on category theory. With their publication, they have joined an elite group of academics who have referred to my book, The Systematicity Arguments. (Fodor mentions it in LOT 2 and …
As many of you may know, I have been thinking about the following problem for a while: Suppose that scientists discover a high level property G that is prima facie multiply realized by two sets of lower level properties, F1, F2, …, Fn, and F*1, F*2, …, F*m. One response …
An interesting story in the NYT . I wonder what would happen if they gave Watson a huge corpus of philosophy texts. Would human philosophers be out of business?
