Philosophers' Carnival #89
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Author: Gualtiero Piccinini
The Kripkean Response to Kripke’s Modal Argument against Physicalism
(cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!) Well it’s been a while since I have posted anything here…I have been so busy with Consciousness Online (which by the way was a HUGE success!Thanks to all who participated, including our very own Gualtiero! I am also happy to announce that the Journal of Consciousness Studies …
Theories of Emotion article for Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Greg Johnson (Drexel University) has completed an almost final draft of an article on
More Philosophical Bigotry
Next week, at the Pacific APA, a petition on discrimination will be presented to the APA. The petition asks the APA to either enforce its own policy against discrimination (specifically, de facto discrimination against homosexuality by certain religious institutions that require their employees to commit to having no sex outside …
Silicon Brains
European scientists are building silicon chips containing large scale artificial neural networks (200,000 neurons and 50 million synapses, scalable to a billion neurons and 10 to the 13 synapses). (Thanks to Neal Anderson for the link.) IBM scientists and working on “cognitive computing”, an attempt to build a new generation of …
Philosophers' Carnival #88
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Ranking Journals in Philosophy of Mind
Brian Leiter is running polls about the best journals in philosophy. Wayne Wu and others are trying to put together a list of journals in philosophy of mind and related sciences for Leiter to run a poll on. Wayne points out the following: “The big problem I’m realizing, of course, …