Our next Mind & Language article symposium is on Philipp Koralus’ paper, “The Erotetic Theory of Attention: Questions, Focus and Distraction”, from the journal’s February 2014 issue, with commentaries by Felipe De Brigard, Christopher Mole, Catherine Stinson, and Sebastian Watzl. In his paper, Philipp argues that the functional role of attention …
Below are some links that I thought would be of interest to readers of the Brains blog. I intend to start publishing posts like this with some frequency, but am not a great surfer of the Internet, so feel free to share links in the comments, or pass them along …
Call for papers: Conference on the representationalism vs. relationalism debate, University of Antwerp, May 12-13, 2014. Topic: Some say that perceptual states are representations. Others say they are not representations: they are relations to token objects. This conference aims to explore various ways in which the two sides of the debate could be …
In Filosofisk Supplement, the undergraduate philosophy journal at the University of Oslo.
… at 3:AM Magazine. An excerpt: 3:AM: I presume much of your work connects with other fields in psychology, cognitive science, perceptual science, biology and so on. Are you signed up to the inter-disciplinarian nature of philosophy and would you agree with the xphi crew that actually this is much closer to what …
How could we cast suspicion on the semantic poverty thesis discussed in Part III? (Recall this is the view that ‘no amount of analysis, conjunction, or <insert your favorite semantic construction method here> applied to concepts about brain states will yield a concept about subjective experience as such.’). One way …
In visual experience, the way things look is dependent on where you are looking at them from. (A plate, for example, will appear differently depending on whether you are viewing it straight on or at an angle.) But how should we account for this incontestable fact? Many philosophers have held that …
