Stephen Wolfram, of New Kind of Science and Mathematica fame, is scheduled to make public a new tool next May. Wolfram Alpha is supposed to answer a vast number of questions in natural language by computing the answers from a large set of algorithms and databases. Sounds impressive. (Thanks to …
THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH Royal Institute of Philosophy The Metaphysics of Consciousness A Conference in Honour of T.L.S. Sprigge (1932–2007) Edinburgh, 7–9 July 2009 What is consciousness? What is its place in the physical universe? How did it arise in the course of cosmic evolution? Can there be a genuine …
THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH Postgraduate Conference The Metaphysics of Mind Keynote speaker: Professor Jaegwon Kim (Brown University) Edinburgh, 6 July 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited from postgraduate students on any aspect of the metaphysics of mind, e.g. psychophysical reduction, multiple realization, the explanatory gap, physicalism and emergentism, mental …
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As the new PGR is out, I’ll take this opportunity to thank Brian Leiter for his service to the community. In my opinion, the PGR is an extraordinarily useful tool: primarily for aspiring graduate students, and secondarily for everyone else in philosophy. Surely it’s not perfect, but it’s a lot …
I try to avoid inflamatory language, but this petition is upsetting: philosophers splitting hairs in support of policies that discriminate against homosexuals (HT: Leiter Reports). Their main point seems to be that you are not really discriminating against homosexuals as long as you are not asking them to change their sexual orientation …
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