A series of blog posts featuring scholars in the philosophy and science of mind.
This post continues on from the last. I’m going to assume the claims I made in that post – in particular, that implicit attitudes are patchy endorsements – though in fact what I will say would go through on most rival views (the only extant view on which it would be …
Let me begin by thanking John Schwenkler for the invitation to blog here at Brains. I’m not really a specialist in philosophy of mind (or in, well, anything) but a lot of my recent work is concerned with mind-y (and brain-y) issues. I find it hard to get excited about …
It is my pleasure to introduce Neil Levy as the current Featured Scholar at the Brains blog, where he’ll contribute a series of posts over this week and the next. Neil is a Futures Fellow of the Australian Research Council. He is based in the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Melbourne as well as …
My current project aims to establish that if there is a profound, principled division between mind and world, then it is only occurrent states that are within the mind. But my discussion in these posts is confined to a hypothesis I plan to use in establishing that thesis, namely: (H) …
In the previous post, I introduced some questions at the center of my current book project, concerning the boundary between the mental and the non-mental. In this post I sketch that project in very broad outline. Many thanks for the useful comments about my list of 5 characteristics that are …
I’m delighted to be guest blogging here at Brains. My plan for my series of posts here is to introduce the set of questions at the center of my current project; shamelessly exploit the brilliant readers of this blog for my own purposes invite others to weigh in on these …
I am happy to be introducing Brie Gertler, who will be guest-blogging as a featured scholar here at Brains beginning this week. Brie received her PhD from Brown University in 1997 and is currently Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. Her research interests are in the philosophy …
