Author: Gualtiero Piccinini

Well, that may be too strong, but going palm up still sounds like a potentially important piece of the puzzle of the evolution of primate communication.  In today’s NY Times.

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I recently went to NA-CAP 2007 at Loyola University in Chicago.  Since I lack the time to write much about it, here is an interesting short report on it by Matt Butcher, one of the participants.

At the recent NA-CAP conference, I was reminded of two nice teaching tools that are available online for free:Inquiry, mostly developed by Peter Bradley (currently at McDaniel College, though the bulk of the project was carried out at Washington University in St. Louis).The Mind Project (check especially under curriculum), mostly developed by David …

Have you ever cringed at the cavalier way your students cite Wikipedia?  Wait until they start citing Conservapedia.  Conservapedia is an online encyclopedia modeled after Wikipedia, but ostensibly aimed at promoting a “conservative” point of view.  Unfortunately for scientifically literate conservatives, what these people seem to mean by promoting “conservatism” …

Using genetic engineering, photosensitive proteins, and light.  In today’s NYTimes.

My paper “Computing Mechanisms”, which articulates and defends an account of what it takes for physical systems to perform computations (in the sense of computability theory and computer science), has been accepted in Philosophy of Science.  I will go over it and revise it one more time before sending the …