Summer Institute on the Evolution and Function of Consciousness

The blog site for the daily (hourly!) postings from the Turing Centenary Summer Institute on the Evolution and Function of Consciousness hosted by the Cognitive Sciences Institute of the Université du Québec à Montréal, June 29 – July 12 will be: https://turingc.blogspot.ca/ Turing-Consciousness has a Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/TuringConsciousness as well as …

Afterlife and the Persistence of the Self

In a recent blog post, Ian accuses me of being “instinctively a strong dualist.” His reason seems to be that I affirm that the self persists in normal circumstances but does not persist under teleportation. Unfortunately I could not follow his reasoning. I hold that from moment to moment, we persist as …

A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition

Three consecutive special issues of the Journal of Cognitive Science on this topic are on their way out. The first issue opens with David Chalmers’s seminal paper with the same title (which was written in 1993 and posted on his website but never officially published until now) and is followed by four …

A Job at SUNY at Buffalo

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO (SUNY), Buffalo NY. 2 Year Non-Tenure Track Full Time Faculty Position, beginning Fall 2012.  Four courses per year (2 per semester; Graduate and Undergraduate levels), along with normal non-teaching duties (i.e. student advisement, participation in departmental events, etc.).  Salary: $45K plus benefits. AOS: Philosophy of Mind. AOC: …

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