Author: Edouard Machery

CALL FOR PAPERS9th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and CommunicationPERCEPTION AND CONCEPTS16-18 May 2013, Riga, Latvia. https://www.lu.lv/eng/research/conferences/2013/cognition/INVITED ORGANIZERS: Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh) and Jesse Prinz (CUNY)INVITED SPEAKERS include:Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow) Ruth Millikan (Connecticut)David Chalmers (ANU/NYU)Alex Byrne (MIT)Andy Clark (Edinburgh)Diane Pecher (Rotterdam)Ophelia Deroy (London)Rob Goldstone (Indiana)Pierre Jacob (Institut Jean Nicod)Casey O’Callaghan (Rice)Alva Noe …

First Pittsburgh -Tilburg workshop on  Formal Epistemology Meets Experimental Philosophy Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2011 https://www.uvt.nl/tilps/FEMEP2011/  ********************************************************************* Over the years, the methodological toolbox of philosophers of science has widened considerably. Today, formal and experimental methods importantly complement more traditional methods such as conceptual analysis and …

POSITION: Tenure stream assistant professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, pending budgetary approval. Area of Specialization: History and philosophy of science and related areas that naturally complement departmental strengths. We have interest in strengthening areas of history and philosophy of neuroscience, physics, and general methodology. Rank: …

Dialogue will publish soon the symposium on Doing without Concepts with Tania Lombrozo’s, Pierre Poirier’s and our own Gualtiero’s papers. (Gualtiero’s paper was posted on this blog earlier and was followed by a lively exchange.) The three papers are really excellent and worth reading. My reply is

Some of you might be interested by Kim Sterelny’s essay on the evolution of humans and by the commentaries on his essay (C. Driscoll, P.S. Davies, mine, etc.). It’s a good summary of Kim’s views. The symposium is organized by C. Driscoll on the forum On the Human. Edouard

Some of you might be interested by the symposium that is forthcoming in Philosophical Studies on Doing without Concepts. Chris Hill (Brown, here) and Diana Raffman (Toronto, here) comment on the book, and I reply. Hugo Mercier IUPenn) has also a review in Biology and Philosophy. 

I have been asked to write up a commentated bibliography on modularity for a new journal by OUP. It is not meant to be exhaustive; rather it should focus on the important articles and books and organize this in meaningful sections. Perhaps some of you will have comments and suggestions. …