Author: Gualtiero Piccinini

This was a nice surprise.  Someone wrote a list of the top 100 Mental Health and Psychology Blogs and included us.

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Yesterday I gave a little workshop about publishing to some graduate students (as part of Washington University’s Future Directions in Genetic Studies Graduate Training Workshop).  Here is a list of tips:1. Make a personal web page.  It’s the cheapest and easiest way to advertize yourself to the world.  Post your …

I’m about to start writing a review article on “Computationalism in the Philosophy of Mind,” for Philosophy Compass, due in two months.  It should cover new and interesting stuff that pertains to computationalism.  By “new”, I would say we should consider mostly literature from the last 15 years or so.Of course …

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William Ramsey, Representation Reconsidered, CUP, 2007.This is the most up to date and systematic discussion of representation that I know of.  It distinguishes four notions of representation and discusses their pros and cons, carefully and often insightfully.  That’s enough to make it a useful book.Needless to say, there is more to …

The title of this post is my favorite quote from J. Heil, From An Ontological Point of View, OUP, 2003 (from p. 248).Heil’s point is that “The zombie possibility turns on substantive philosophical theses concerning properties, powers, and laws of nature.  I have argued at length, and on independent grounds, against these …