The preliminary program of the 2008 Philosophy of Science Association Meeting is out. The meeting will take place on November 6–8, 2008, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There will be many talks on the sciences of minds and brains, including a symposium I organized, on “Neural Computation” (other participants: Carl Craver, Oron Shagrir, and Jackie …
The CFP for the next conference of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology is out. The conference will take place in Savannah, GA over Easter weekend, i.e., Thursday April 9 to Saturday April 11, 2009.I am the program chair. I want to call your attention to a new feature of …
Many thanks to Mark Sprevak for organizing the fabulous conference on computation in cognitive science that took place on July 7-8 at King’s College, Cambridge. Several of us Brains contributors (Aizawa, Gillett, Rusanen, Weiskopf, and me) were there. I had a great time. The papers were excellent: although they are drafts, reading …
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Tomorrow I’m leaving for two weeks in the UK. Among other things, I’ll be at a conference on Computation in Cognitive Science at King’s College, Cambridge. My paper for the conference (co-authored with Andrea Scarantino) is entitled “Computation vs. Information Processing: How They Are Different and Why It Matters.” It has just …
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Paul Churchland, Neurophilosophy at Work, CUP, 2007.I just finished Paul Churchland’s latest book, a collection of essays published by him during the last 10 years. They cover many topics: how to give a neurobiological account of consciousness, why functionalism is wrong, why (non-classical) connectionism is the way to go, how to …
