At the recent NA-CAP, I had the good fortune to meet the legendary Richard Stallman, who gave an impassionated defense of free software. According to him, it is unethical to use proprietary software. Regardless of the degree to which you agree with him, Stallman is worth listening to and meeting in person. Failing …
A nice short review of recent research on the link between the two. (Link courtesy of Blake Myers.)
Craig J. Phillips is a traumatic brain injury survivor and a rehabilitation counselor. He writes: “I sustained an open skull fracture with right frontal lobe damage and remained in a coma for 3 weeks at the age of 10 in August of 1967. I underwent brain and skull surgery after waking from …
David Chalmers has posted a helpful list of recent collections of articles on consciousness.
The putative split between analytic and continental philosophy continues to exercise philosophers. It’s quite difficult to say what, if anything, divides them. It’s so difficult that some philosophers, led by Brian Leiter, argue that there is no longer (if there ever was) any substantive or methodological difference between the two. …
Not much, I would think. Psychology and neuroscience are empirical, scientific disciplines. Phenomenology (as conceived by Husserl) is an anti-naturalistic, a priori style of theorizing about consciousness. Well, who cares? Isn’t phenomenology “philosophically defunct” anyway? (Brian Leiter’s words in his Introduction to The Future of Philosophy, OUP, 2004.) In fact, …
My department‘s website does not give much information on our record in placing our M.A. students into philosophy Ph.D. programs. I can at least speak for myself for the benefit of prospective M.A. students in my area (phil. of mind, psychology, neuroscience, computation). During my first two years at the University of …
