Workshop on Philosophy and the Brain: Computation, Realization, Representation
Coming up 16-19 May at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. If you happen to be in Israel at that time, you shouldn’t miss it.
Author: Gualtiero Piccinini
The Allure of Moral Psychology vs. the Foundations of Cognitive Science
In the last month or so, two Ph.D. students at two different schools told me they changed their research focus from foundational topics (such as computational theories of cognition) to moral psychology. Is this indicative of a trend? Moral psychology is obviously fascinating and has seen much new work in recent …
Neural Computation and the Computational Theory of Cognition
This paper (co-authored with theoretical and experimental neuroscientist Sonya Bahar) is what I’ve been aiming at during all these years. This is why I made this big fuss over developing an adequate non-semantic account of computation. I think the paper is finally ready to submit, but I’d love to get some …
Philosophers' Carnival #123
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Call for Papers: On David Chalmers’s “A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition.”
David Chalmers’s 1993 paper, “A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition,” contains his most systematic discussion of computation as a foundation for cognitive science. The paper has been posted online (https://consc.net/papers/computation.html), discussed, and cited during all these years. The paper will finally be published in a special issue of the …
Philosophers' Carnival #122
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Philosopher's Carnival #121
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