Elisabetta Lalumera posted a comment with an interesting question:“What is cognitive economy? Sometimes philosophers and psychologists evaluate proposals on the graounds that they fare well/bad at cognitive economy (e.g. on-the-fly concept views, like Barsalou’s, would avoid the storage cost of concepts in semantic memory, etc.).”“Any suggestion about what to look …
THE ANNUAL NORTH AMERICAN MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR
COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY
July 26th – 28th, 2007
Call for Proposals…
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
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.
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 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 …
The yearly issue of Synthese devoted to philosophy of neuroscience is out (requires subscription to see the articles).
