Posts from the founder of Brains, Gualtiero Piccinini.
Three consecutive special issues of the Journal of Cognitive Science on this topic are on their way out. The first issue opens with David Chalmers’s seminal paper with the same title (which was written in 1993 and posted on his website but never officially published until now) and is followed by four …
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO (SUNY), Buffalo NY. 2 Year Non-Tenure Track Full Time Faculty Position, beginning Fall 2012. Four courses per year (2 per semester; Graduate and Undergraduate levels), along with normal non-teaching duties (i.e. student advisement, participation in departmental events, etc.). Salary: $45K plus benefits. AOS: Philosophy of Mind. AOC: …
I am happy to announce that the title of this post is the title of the first book to be officially accepted in the Springer book series Studies in Brain and Mind under its new editor-in-chief and editorial board. I expect the book to be out later this year or next …
Sunday, May 13, University of Lund, Sweden Details The workshop “Philosophy and Computation” aims to be a platform for various discussions concerning the use of computability in philosophy (for example, how computational complexity constraints can contribute to explain human understanding) and also questions concerning the philosophical investigation of computation (like questions related to Church-Turing thesis). The workshop is …
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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 …
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