The following cfp might be of interest to the brain community: OBJECTS and SOUND PERCEPTION, Issue 7 (2007) of the EUROPEAN REVIEW of PHILOSOPHY), eds. Nicolas J. Bullot and Paul Egré, deadline: Dec. 1, guest authors: Stephen Davies, Michael Kubovy, Mohan Matthen (more info on the website). The ERP is now …
Barsalou, Glenberg, Prinz, Damasio and other neo-empiricists have theoretically and experimentally challenged the once dominant view that representations in higher cognitive processes are amodal (eg, Fodor, Pylyshyn). They have renewed a century-old perspective on the mind, according to which representations in perceptual processes and representations in higher cognitive processes are, …
I have been recently looking at the literature on the embodied and situated mind (mostly for the graduate seminar I will be teaching in Fall). I have been overwhelmed by the sheer amount of articles and books in this area. So, if you had to name 4 or 5 articles …
I am getting ready for my Fall graduate seminar at Pitt–Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. The class is a survey of the main issues in the current philosophy of cognitive science (broadly conceived). To my own surprise, it has become clear that the class I will teach will …
