Last month, at Shaun Gallagher’s Cognition: Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, Extended conference, Fred Adams and I met with some criticism of our views on extended cognition. Andy Clark, Richard Menary, and Pierre Steiner, among others, were allied against us. Finally, after six years, however, Fred and I are getting our second …
I don’t normally post up drafts of papers, but this one might be of interest to some regulars. It is a reply to Bechtel and Mundale’s 1999 Philosophy of Science paper. Neuroscience & Multiple Realization. Comments welcome. I think it’s still a little rough, especially the section on the “grain …
While I’m in the “conference reminding” frame of mind, I should note the upcoming deadline for the PSA. The twenty-first PSA biennial meeting will take place November 6-9, 2008, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Further information is here. Scientist + philosopher symposia are of interest this year. I think that Edouard is …
Colleagues, Just a reminder that the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology call for papers is now available here. Submission deadline is November 15, 2007. For 2008, we will be in New Orleans, the SSPP’s most popular venue. We are currently planning to have a poster session to accommodate more …
Bechtel and Mundale, (1999), propose that the putative multiple realization of psychological functions is the product of a kind of trick. They suggest that defenders of MR type psychological properties at a coarse grain and potential realizer properties at a fine grain. By doing this, it looks as though the …
Here is an idea that Carl Gillett and I broach in some works in progress and which we presented (among other things) at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (and provoked by Richard’s exobiology post). In all explicitness, claims about realization and multiple realization should be indexed to levels. …
This may be old news to those who are up on the vision neuroscience literature, but I found it interesting and surprising so I thought I would share. It appears that within the human population, individuals vary in the number of red-cone genes (from 1 to 4) and green-cone genes …
Philosophers, both at Brains and elsewhere in the philosophical blogosphere, seem to like participating in and reading polls, so how about another one here? Is the property of having dichromatic color vision multiply realized in humans? If so, why? If not, why not I say “yes”. There are three familiar …
We are very happy to announce a new group, the ‘Society for the Metaphysics of Science’, (unsurprisingly) devoted to the ‘metaphysics of science’. We would like to invite anyone interested to join the group and also to attend our upcoming sessions at the Pacific and Central APA Conferences. The website …
