Author: Gualtiero Piccinini

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 …

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.