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 …
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 …
