Recently there have been a lot of stories in the news about scientist’s finding water in the atmosphere of an extra-solar planet, and finding an extra-solar planet that they classify as habitableWhat is striking (to me) about these stories, besides the overal ‘cool factor’ of space stuff, is that these scientists …
Here. (If you haven’t read Dennett’s piece “Higher Order Truths about Chmess,” I recommend it.)
I just read John Earman and John Roberts’ interesting papers defending Humean Supervenience about laws of nature, in PPR 2005. They argue that facts about which generalizations are nomic supervene on non-nomic observable facts. Their argument is that without such supervenience, it would be impossible to find empirical justification for …
EPSA07: 1st Conference of the European Philosophy of Science AssociationContributed papers are invited to the 1st Conference of the newly founded European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA). The conference will take place at Complutense University, Madrid, from 15-17 November 2007.For details of the Association (EPSA) and the Conference (EPSA07) see: …
Haugeland offers a theory of systems along the following lines: A component is a relatively independent and self-contained portion of a system in the sense that it relevantly interacts with other components only through interfaces between them (and contains no internal interfaces at the same level). An interface is a …
The next issue of the New York Times Magazine has an article on the way neuroscience is changing the law and judicial system. More reasons why philosophers of mind and ethicists should not ignore neuroscience.
