A series of blog posts featuring scholars in the philosophy and science of mind.
The announcement of my contributions says that they will in part concern my recent Keeping the World in Mind: Mental Representations and the Sciences of the Mind. The overriding theme of that book is the proper understanding of “representation” as it occurs in recent cognitive neuroscience, broadly understood. I argue …
It’s my great pleasure to introduce Anne Jaap Jacobson as our next featured scholar. Anne is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston and Director of the UH Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science. She is also a Visiting Academic at Somerville College, …
I wanted to thank readers for reading, commenters for commenting, and Kristina Musholt for inviting me to be a guest blogger. Three cheers for Brains! The discussions here gave me a chance to think out loud about some questions that are dangling from a book manuscript I’m circulating. It’s called *The Rationality of Perception*. Among other …
In this post I want to focus on a distinction that has come up in both comment threads. It’s the distinction between inferences, and factors that regulate inferences. Here’s an example. It’s about wishful thinking.
In this post I want to approach the topic of the previous post from a different angle. I raised two questions about the U&C study: whether people believe the comparative ratings (Question 1), and what inference, if any, leads them to their ultimate verdict (Question 2). Either question would be …
When you were a kid, did your room ever get really messy? Of course it did. Did its messiness bother you? Quite possibly not. Lots of kids are not at all bothered by their messy rooms. (Question: Does it even look messy to them, or does it look orderly? We …
I’m excited to be introducing our next featured scholar, Susanna Siegel. Susanna is Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. She received her PhD from Cornell University and works on topics in the philosophy of mind and epistemology.
