CFP: Objects and Sound Perception
Last Call for papers(Deadline: December 1, 2006)OBJECTS and SOUND PERCEPTIONIssue 7 (2007) of the EUROPEAN REVIEW of PHILOSOPHYhttps://www.erp-review.org
Author: Gualtiero Piccinini
Synthese Issue on Neuroscience
As I mentioned earlier, an issue of Synthese devoted to computational explanation in neuroscience and related topics is about to come out. The articles are now available on the Synthese website. (You can see the abstracts; to see the articles, you or your institution needs to subscribe to the journal.)G. Piccinini, …
Turing Pumpkin
Corey Maley found this nice Halloween tribute to a great man.
PSA 2006
The 2006 Philosophy of Science Association Meeting is about to take place, on November 2-5 at the Hyatt Regenecy Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia. There are several interesting talks and sessions on the philosophy of psychology and neuroscience, including a symposium entitled “Can Introspective Reports be Scientific Evidence?” with Anna …
Realization Conference
An interesting conference on realization, organized by Julie Yoo, recently took place at Lafayette College. See here for more details.
First-person Data vs. Sense Data
David Chalmers helpfully pointed out that the first relevant use of “first-person data” appears to be due to Herbert Feigl (in “The ‘Mental’ and the ‘Physical’”, 1958). This brings up what seems to me a confusion in the current literature between first-person data as a kind of scientific data and …
First-person Data
The expression “first-person data” has become quite common in the consciousness studied literature, where it is used to refer to data about conscious experience, sometimes with the implication that these data are obtained only through introspection, and sometimes with the further implication that these are private data (as opposed to …