Philosophers' Carnival #115
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Author: Gualtiero Piccinini
Philosophers' Carnival #114
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A Brief Introduction to Computationalism
I just wrote the final version of an introduction to computationalism to be published in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Cognitive Science. I need to turn it in in a couple of weeks. I am posting it
On Refereeing Journal Articles
Here is a nice article on how to write good referee reports on journal articles. The article is by Henry Roediger, a distinguished psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis (thanks to his colleague Jeff Zacks for the pointer), so it focuses on psychology. But mutatis mutandis virtually all of …
Philosophers' Carnival #113
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The Demise of "Cognitive Science"
For several years, I’ve felt that cognitive science as it was originally conceived is being progressively replaced by cognitive neuroscience. By “cognitive science as it was originally conceived,” I mean primarily the alliance between traditional cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence (either “classicist” or “connectionist”), supplemented by contributions from linguistics, philosophy of …
Realistic [?] Routes to Substrate Independent Minds
Susan Schneider sent me this interesting article about a new group apparently devoted to unifying efforts to build artificial minds. Incidentally, the article contains a nice series of confused non sequiturs about computation and the brain: “When it comes to the brain and the mind, the strong neuroscientific consensus is …