Modeling has come to occupy a central place in philosophy of science. In recent decades, an enormous amount has been written on the practices of model construction, how models represent their targets, how models relate to simulations and theories, and how models are validated and verified.
Like other social animals, humans are status-conscious creatures, obsessed with hierarchy and rankings. This is obvious in the realm of finance, the entertainment industry, and academic reputation-chasing, but it also turns up in the more staid realms of theory. Psychology and ethology make frequent reference to the distinction between the …
Conceptual pluralism is the view for any category that we can think about, we typically possess many different concepts of it—that is, many different ways of representing that category in higher cognition. Different kinds of concepts encode their own specific perspective on the target category, and each one can be …
Thanks very much to Kristina and John for inviting me to post here at Brains. I’m hoping to take this opportunity to revisit and update a few past themes in my research, and sketch some lines of inquiry that I’m either pursuing now or hope to take up in the …
Brains readers may be interested in the following ad, which will appear in the JFP (though not, I think, in the October edition). GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, Georgia. Rank: Assistant Professor. AOS: Empirically-informed Philosophy of Mind. AOC: Open, but some preference for Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, or Philosophy of …
** Second Call for papers ** 102nd Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and PsychologyApril 15-17, 2010Westin Peachtree PlazaAtlanta, GA SSPP Webpage: https://southernsociety.org/Information on 2010 meeting: https://southernsociety.org/annualmeeting.htmCall for papers: https://southernsociety.org/Call%20For%20Papers.doc Submission of papers having interdisciplinary interest is strongly encouraged. Papers should be no longer than 3000 words and be …
The call for papers for the 2010 meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology has been posted. The conference will take place from April 15-17 (Thursday through Saturday) in Atlanta, GA. I am the philosophy program chair, and Lauren Taglialatela of Kennesaw State is the psychology program chair. …
