You may (or may not) have noticed that Pete Mandik and Richard Brown (me) have started a podcast, called SpaceTimeMind, where we talk about tax law updates for 2014, uh, I mean, er, we talk about space and time and mind! The first episode is up now (and has been …
CALL FOR PAPERS PHLINC 2: LANGUAGE AND OTHER MINDS https://phling.umd.edu/symposia/phlinc2.html Invited speakers: Mandy Simons and Jason Stanley Special discussion led by Shevaun Lewis February 14th – 15th, 2014 University of Maryland PHLING, a research group of students and faculty from the departments of linguistics and philosophy at the University of …
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 …
Last week I had the good fortune of participating in a stimulating workshop on protolanguage organized by Dorit Bar-On and Mitch Green at the University of Virginia. Thanks to the organizers for their excellent work. I was asked to comment on a paper by Bruno Galantucci (BG) et al. on a new …
Gualtiero kindly gave me an account here, so I am left with the problem of what to post. A brief introduction. I have a background in analytic philosophy, first in the philosophy of perception, mostly studying nineteenth century theories of perception and consciousness, and then in philosophy of language, focusing …
An interesting story in the NYT . I wonder what would happen if they gave Watson a huge corpus of philosophy texts. Would human philosophers be out of business?
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