Carrie Figdor interviews Anne Jaap Jacobson
… in a podcast at New Books in Philosophy. The interview concerns Jacobson’s Keeping the World in Mind: Mental Representations and the Science of the Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Category: books
Aristotle’s Illusion and The Peripheral Mind
In the first section of chapter 7 of The Peripheral Mind, I discuss Aristotle’s Illusion, a tactile-proprioceptive illusion that is very easy to replicate by crossing two of your hand fingers, and touching the region thus created between the fingertips with a cylindrical object. Most people report that they feel …
The Peripheral Mind — general introduction
This is the first of a series of three blog posts about my book. It will introduce the main idea behind it, and highlight a few applications. The second post will present one of the chapters in a bit more detail. Finally, the last post will try to identify some …
Qualing the EMT
When I first heard about the extended-mind thesis (EMT), some time in the mid-2000s, I was instantly intrigued—mainly because it feels so intuitively right. Driving my car, I often feel that I am my car, or that my car is me. Driving a rental car, especially as I pull it …
Symposium on Paul Churchland’s “Matter and Consciousness” (3rd ed., 2013)
I’m very glad to be able to kick off this symposium on Paul M. Churchland’s Matter and Consciousness, recently reissued in a new (third) edition by the MIT Press. Below the fold is a brief introduction to the symposium, followed by essays from our three contributors, Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna), William Ramsey (UNLV), …
Should there be more texts by women authors in philosophy of mind anthologies?
An interesting discussion at New APPS, spurred by the following list: Lycan and Prinz, Mind and Cognition: An Anthology (3rd ed., 2008) has three texts by women (one of them co-written with a man) among 56 chapters. Heil, Philosophy of Mind: A Guide and Anthology (2004) has five texts by …
Interview with Steve Downes and Edouard Machery
… about their edited volume on human nature, recently released by Routledge.