Cognitio 2011 Young researchers conference in cognitive science Montréal, July 3rd, 4th and 5th 2011 Nonhuman Minds: Animal, Artificial or Other Minds Cognitio is a young researcher’s conference now held every two years at the Université du Québec à Montréal, under the auspices of its Cognitive Science Institute. Over the …
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Carl Craver and I have written a paper arguing that functional analyses are just elliptical mechanistic explanations, contrary to the received view that functional analysis is distinct and autonomous from mechanistic explanation. Corollary: contrary to the received view, psychological explanation is not distinct and autonomous from neuroscientific explanation–rather, psychological explanation …
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Susan Schneider’s provocative book on the Language of Thought is forthcoming from MIT Press in April 2011. It’s also posted on her website . Feel free to take a look at it and get back to her. She told me she’d love to have your feedback.
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Keith Augustine and Michael Martin are putting together an anthology of papers arguing that there is no afterlife. They commissioned a paper from me. I am happy to enroll as a culture warrior, so I’m planning to co-author a piece with my colleague Sonya Bahar –the director of the Center for Neurodynamics here at …
