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 …
Thanks for the interesting comments on my post on the psychology of philosophy, in which I asked whether some philosophers’ resistance to naturalism might be due to extra-rational psychological factors.In addition to those who posted, Blake Myers emailed me pointing out that much of Paul Bloom’s work (the Yale psychologist) …
Some time ago, I wanted to write a post calling for a “psychology of philosophy”. In my mind, this would be the study of extra-rational factors that influence philosophers’ beliefs.A question that I find particularly interesting is, do attitudes about science, such as naturalism vs. anti-naturalism, correlate with levels of …
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There is a new survey up at Experimental Philosophy. They are looking for both philosophers and non-philosophers. I just took the survey and invite you to do the same.
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Below is a tentative and rough taxonomy of notions of information relevant to psychology, neuroscience, and computer science, and specifically, to whether computation is information processing.1. Shannon information. The notion defined by his communication theory. The more unlikely an event is relative to its alternatives, the more Shannon information it …
