Posts from the founder of Brains, Gualtiero Piccinini.
Not much, I would think. Psychology and neuroscience are empirical, scientific disciplines. Phenomenology (as conceived by Husserl) is an anti-naturalistic, a priori style of theorizing about consciousness. Well, who cares? Isn’t phenomenology “philosophically defunct” anyway? (Brian Leiter’s words in his Introduction to The Future of Philosophy, OUP, 2004.) In fact, …
My department‘s website does not give much information on our record in placing our M.A. students into philosophy Ph.D. programs. I can at least speak for myself for the benefit of prospective M.A. students in my area (phil. of mind, psychology, neuroscience, computation). During my first two years at the University of …
Well, that may be too strong, but going palm up still sounds like a potentially important piece of the puzzle of the evolution of primate communication. In today’s NY Times.
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I recently went to NA-CAP 2007 at Loyola University in Chicago. Since I lack the time to write much about it, here is an interesting short report on it by Matt Butcher, one of the participants.
At the recent NA-CAP conference, I was reminded of two nice teaching tools that are available online for free:Inquiry, mostly developed by Peter Bradley (currently at McDaniel College, though the bulk of the project was carried out at Washington University in St. Louis).The Mind Project (check especially under curriculum), mostly developed by David …
Have you ever cringed at the cavalier way your students cite Wikipedia? Wait until they start citing Conservapedia. Conservapedia is an online encyclopedia modeled after Wikipedia, but ostensibly aimed at promoting a “conservative” point of view. Unfortunately for scientifically literate conservatives, what these people seem to mean by promoting “conservatism” …
