Posts from the founder of Brains, Gualtiero Piccinini.
The NY Times has an insightful article describing Italians’ current unhappiness with themselves and their country. They see Italy declining, but they don’t see any way to stop the decline.In the 1990s Italians had an opportunity to go in a different direction. There were a number of ballot measures (“referendums”) that would have …
On November 29 and 30, I attended the workshop on Modeling, Simulation and Computational Science organized by Anna-Mari Rusanen and Tarja Knuuttila in Helsinki, Finland. I found it excellent. There were philosophers, physicists, and cognitive scientists talking to one another about computational models and computational explanations. I felt people were genuinely …
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Citizendium is a project for a more sophisticated version of Wikipedia. It seems to be a worthwhile cause, but it requires the volunteer effort of specialists. Below is an email circulated by Larry Sanger, who is behind the Citizendium effort. I’d be interested in hearing your opinions about the feasibility of such a project.—
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Pretty cool stuff.
As far as I know, the modern debate ab out folk psychology begins with Wilfrid Sellars’s view that folk psychology is a proto-scientific theory. For a while, the whole debate was over whether such a theory was mostly correct or incorrect, reducible or irreducible to lower-level theories. Then in the …
