Philosophers' Carnival #118
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Author: Gualtiero Piccinini
Functional Analyses as Mechanism Sketches
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 …
Philosophers' Carnival
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Schneider on The Language of Thought
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.
Philosophers' Carnival #116
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What Are the Best Defenses of the Afterlife?
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 …
A Dialogue with Brit Brogaard on Philosophy and Neuroscience
My great colleague Brit Brogaard has recently started doing empirical research, primarily in cognitive neuroscience. This prompted the following dialogue, which will eventually be published in our department’s newsletter. Gualtiero: Until recently, you were known for armchair philosophizing and not at all for empirical research. Could you briefly explain how you became …