Author: Gualtiero Piccinini

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Recently there have been some valuable inititiatives in the philosophy of science in MO.Three philosophers at U of MO – Columbia (Andre Ariew, Andrew Melnik, and Philip Robbins) have organized the first Missouri Philosophy of Science Workshop, which will take place next weekend in Columbia.And some philosophers in St. Louis …

As announced a few weeks ago, I wrote a paper in which I survey the state of the art on computationalism.  Thanks a lot to those who suggested topics I should cover.  I touched on most of the suggested topics.The paper is due at Philosophy Compass by the end of the month.  …

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The deadline for the SSPP 2009 is November 16, 2008.  Consider submitting a paper or a symposium proposal.  To submit a symposium proposal, the main thing you need are three or so willing participants, their contact information, and abstracts of the proposed papers.As I pointed out before, both the venue (Savannah, …

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The standard pop story about connectionism in philosophical circles goes somewhat as follows:  connectionism  is an alternative to computationalism, or at least to classical computationalism, that emerged in the 1980s.  This story is largely a myth due in part to the ambiguity of the term “connectionism”.“Connectionism” has come to mean several different …