Call for Papers: Consciousness Online: The First Cyber Consciousness Conference February 20-27, 2009 Please post and distribute widely; appologies for cross-posting Following the success of the On-Line Philosophy Conference I am pleased to announce Consciousness Online: The first cyber consciousness conference. Invited talk by David Rosenthal. Papers in any area of consciousness studies …
On a side note, I just found out that a recent paper of mine partially reduplicates an argument made by Gualtiero in one of his papers (with some differences in emphasis). Nice.At anyrate, I have been thinking about multiple realization. Now, whether these kinds of arguments refute any of the …
Hi everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, as I have been trying to get Philosophy Sucks! off the ground (thanks to everyone who has come over and checked it out) and I am abivalent towards the practice of one author posting the same post on several blogs, …
(cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!) I have just become a contributor to The Tri-State Cog Blog, which is a group weblog about cognitive science, intended to foster a community of cognitive science researchers based in the Northeastern USA. We post content on a wide range of issues in all areas of …
I haven’t posted here much since I started Philosophy Sucks! but I wanted to discuss something that was brought up on this blog a while back and so I thought I’d do it here (though I have talked about it before, to a different end). In consciousness studies there are two …
Recently I have been having a very interesting discussion with Ken about his and Carl’s views on Multiple Realization. On thing that has come up is the distinction between multiple realization and multiple instantiation. Here is what Ken says about the distinction you want to distinguish between multiple realization and …
I recently received an anonymous email telling me that I was being rude by posting so much here and that if I wanted to post that much I should get my own blog. After thinking about it I decided that this anonymous person was right; so I am happy to …
