NA-CAP@LOYOLA 2007
THE ANNUAL NORTH AMERICAN MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR
COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY
July 26th – 28th, 2007
Call for Proposals…
Author: Gualtiero Piccinini
IJCNN 2007 Special Session on Philosophical Aspects of Neural Network Modeling
We would like to invite you to submit a paper for the IJCNN 2007 Special Session on Philosophical Aspects of Neural Network Modeling…
Papers Due: January 31, 2007
Spinning Free Wheels
There is a review of contemporary debates about free will in the NYT of two days ago. The author gets a bit mixed up on freedom vs. unpredictability, but this is as far as an intelligent science writer has gotten so far by interviewing a bunch of scientists and philosophers.
Experimental Existential Psychology
I always thought existentialism was the exclusive province of some continental philosophers. Well, I was wrong. There appears to be a growing literature of psychologists investigating empirically the existential concerns of people as well as the psychological strategies they adopt to cope with existential concerns, the effects those concerns have …
The Church-Turing Fallacy
The Church-Turing fallacy is the fallacy of supposing that the Church-Turing thesis (CT) or some other idea of Church and Turing entails that the mind can be explained computationally (i.e., computationalism). (The term ‘Church-Turing fallacy’ is due to Jack Copeland.)IMHO, CT is one of the technical ideas most heavily abused by philosophers of mind.CT …
Neuroscience and Its Philosophy 2006
The yearly issue of Synthese devoted to philosophy of neuroscience is out (requires subscription to see the articles).
New Comment on the Philosophy Job Market
Some time ago, I wrote two posts on the philosophy job market, which generated a certain amount of discussion. Today, an anonymous reader posted a particularly informative new comment. The comment was posted in the old version of the blog, where few people are likely to find it. So I …