First off, thanks to John Schwenkler for inviting me to write a few posts about my new book, Cognitive Phenomenology, and also for inviting other authors to write about their new books. I’ve really enjoyed following this series on the Brains Blog. In this post I will isolate what I …
In my Philosophy of Mind class, we just finished reading D. Hutto and E. Myin (2013), Radicalizing Enactivism, MIT Press. One good thing about this book is the way it carefully distinguishes various “enactivist” theses. 1. The mind is embodied, embedded, enactive, extended causally; that is, the mind causally interacts …
Call for Abstracts: Language at the Interface Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University Vancouver, April 24-26, 2015 Speakers Peter Carruthers (Maryland) Wolfram Hinzen (Barcelona/Durham) Friederike Moltmann (CNRS/NYU) Anna Papafragou (Delaware) Conference Overview Serious and detailed proposals concerning the relationship between language and thought—or, as it might be put today, the …
Another video discussion from the Institute for Art and Ideas:
On July 4th and 5th 2015, just before the ASSC conference on Consciousness in Paris, we are organizing a workshop to discuss advances in the sensorimotor approach. All are welcome! See here for the call for papers: https://lpp.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/feel/?page_id=691
In this post I want to approach the topic of the previous post from a different angle. I raised two questions about the U&C study: whether people believe the comparative ratings (Question 1), and what inference, if any, leads them to their ultimate verdict (Question 2). Either question would be …
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.
