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Category: Mindcraft
Posts from the founder of Brains, Gualtiero Piccinini.
Consciousness Online Final CFP
The deadline for contributed submissions to the 3rd Online Consciousness Conference at Consciousness Online is this Wednesday January 5th 2011. Submit papers to consciousnessonline@gmail.com This year the conference has as its theme Neurophilosophy and the Philosophy of Neuroscience with invited talks by Paul Churchland, Kathleen Akins with commentary by Pete Mandik, Stevan Harnad, and …
Cognitio 2011: Nonhuman Minds: Animal, Artificial or Other Minds
Cognitio 2011 Young researchers conference in cognitive science Montréal, July 3rd, 4th and 5th 2011 Nonhuman Minds: Animal, Artificial or Other Minds Cognitio is a young researcher’s conference now held every two years at the Université du Québec à Montréal, under the auspices of its Cognitive Science Institute. Over the …
Philosophers' Carnival #118
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Functional Analyses as Mechanism Sketches
Carl Craver and I have written a paper arguing that functional analyses are just elliptical mechanistic explanations, contrary to the received view that functional analysis is distinct and autonomous from mechanistic explanation. Corollary: contrary to the received view, psychological explanation is not distinct and autonomous from neuroscientific explanation–rather, psychological explanation …
Philosophers' Carnival
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Schneider on The Language of Thought
Susan Schneider’s provocative book on the Language of Thought is forthcoming from MIT Press in April 2011. It’s also posted on her website . Feel free to take a look at it and get back to her. She told me she’d love to have your feedback.