Gualtiero Piccinini

Philosophers' Carnival #94

Gualtiero Piccinini July 28, 2009 November 25, 2022 blogs / Mindcraft

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Whatever Happened to the Echoic Buffer?

In Chap. 6 of his book LOT 2, Jerry Fodor runs an argument for the existence of nonconceptual content based on Sperling’s experiments from the 1960s. Sperling (followed by Fodor) explained his results by postulating the “echoic buffer” or “echoic store”, which is a perceptual system that maintains an image of …

Philosophers' Carnival #93

Gualtiero Piccinini July 7, 2009 November 25, 2022 blogs / Mindcraft

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X-Phi on Twitter

Gualtiero Piccinini June 30, 2009 November 25, 2022 Mindcraft / Miscellaneous

For any philosophers or psychologists on Twitter, experimental philosophy has started an official twitter account. To see what has been going on in the x-phi world, or to follow xphilosopher, you can follow this link: https://twitter.com/xphilosopher

Philosophers' Carnival #92

Gualtiero Piccinini June 15, 2009 November 25, 2022 blogs / Mindcraft

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100 Ways to Exercise, Increase, and Preserve Your Brain Power

Gualtiero Piccinini May 30, 2009 November 25, 2022 Mindcraft / Miscellaneous

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Fodor's Done It Again

Gualtiero Piccinini May 29, 2009 November 25, 2022 Cognition / Intentionality / Mindcraft / naturalism

Jerry Fodor, LOT 2: The Language of Thought Revisited. Oxford, OUP, 2008. Some quick observations on Fodor’s new book: 1. As usual, a great book: ambitious, provocative, full of ideas and arguments, and as a bonus, funny (for those who like his humor). 2. He is still a computationalist, language-of-thought …