Several people asked me what the good philosophy journals are. I can’t say about all areas of philosophy, but I have compiled an informal and provisional ranking based on Leiter’s ranking plus commentaries that were posted on his website in the past. It contains journals that publish in philosophy of …
In a previous post, I wrote some observations on the philosophy job market. I wish to thank the many people who posted insightful comments (some of them here) and questions. A few clarifications might help. As I said before, these are rough generalizations. Every department is different, every committee is …
In a recent post, I commented on the recent hire of a foreign candidate for a philosophy job at the University of Parma, Italy. The hire of a foreigner, without “connections,” in Italian academia is almost unheard of.I just discovered that the search committee was chaired by Tito Magri, of …
Below is a call for papers for a conference on computer simulations. Although philosophers of mind have talked a lot about computer simulations (Turing test, anyone?), in my opinion they are very far from having reached the bottom on this important topic. I have written some of my opinions on …
Scott Sehon, Teleological Realism: Mind, Agency, and Explanation, MIT Press, 2005.Based on this review by Sarah Worley, Sehon’s book appears to be one of the latest installments in anti-naturalist philosophy of mind.From Kant to McDowell and beyond, there is a long tradition of philosophers who maintain that the mind as …
How do you choose wisely? Do you try to figure it all out at once, by consciously considering the pros and cons of every aspect of every option, or do you relax and patiently wait for the decision to pop into your head, already made by your unconscious mind? There …
Did you know of the dining philosophers’ problem? It’s a classic problem in computer science, where it is used to study the sharing of scarce resources among different processes. Five philosophers sit around the table, where they think and eat. (Isn’t that what philosophers do?) There is a fork between …
