Posts from the founder of Brains, Gualtiero Piccinini.
Roughly speaking, computationalism is the view that cognition is computation. Although some form of computationalism has been mainstream in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind for decades, many people remain sceptical of it. Their reasons vary, but none of them amount to a refutation.In the philosophical literature, the most prominent objections to …
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Fiery Cushman and Eric Schwitzgebel are running a new version of the “Moral Sense Test”, which asks respondents to make moral judgments about hypothetical scenarios. They’re especially hoping to recruit people with philosophy degrees for this test so that they can compare philosophers’ and non-philosophers’ responses.The test should take about 15-20 minutes.Here’s …
THE NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER EXPLORES WHAT IT MEANS TO BE “HUMAN”Final Conference with Leading Scientists and Humanists WHAT: The National Humanities Center will host the third and final conference that explores how modern scientific developments give more insight into what it means to be “human.” The 2008 “The Human & …
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It’s hard to believe, but apparently there is empirical evidence. This points towards a cure: if we can teach conservatives to be less frightened by danger, they might abandon their crazy political views.
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