Last Friday, Stephen Stich gave a talk at UMSL. I was especially happy because I’m a big fan of Stich’s work.For those who may not know, Stich has been engaged for decades in a campaign against certain armchair methods in philosophy, such as certain forms of “conceptual analysis” based on …
I agree with Anna-Mari Rusanen when she says that <<you should see this. It is a mechanistic, causal and probably algorithmic model of female cognition. The text in Finnish says “Finally female cognition has been modelled”.>>
Philip Robbins sent me the link and asked the question in the title. You should see it .
Is the mind in the head?As someone recently pointed out on this blog, there is a large stream of recent books defending the view that mental states, or processes, or systems, extend beyond the nervous system. It would be interesting to know how many people, or at least how many …
I just got a kick out of this (though with my usual caveats).
I just discovered a (recently reprinted) book by Nelson Goodman entitled, Of Mind and Other Matters. It may sound too close to this blog’s subtitle to be just a coincidence. But it is.
Courtesy of Ben Ricker:“The BBC web site posted several thought experiments that are/were in vogue in ethics and requested votes on what you would do. Some food for thought. Check it out here. After you vote, you see the total tallys.”
