Live chat with Alvin Goldman on the epistemology of intuitions
… hosted by Philosophy Talk, at noon PST today (Friday, 9/12).
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Interview with Katrina Sifferd
… at 3:am Magazine.
Templeton Foundation Call for Grant Proposals
As part of its fall open submission cycle, the John Templeton Foundation welcomes online funding inquiries in the areas of philosophy and theology. The submission window is August 1 to October 1, 2014. Proposed philosophical projects need not have religion or theology as a focus. To submit an online funding …
Philosophers’ Carnival #166
… is at Philosophical Disquisitions.
Precis of Attention (Routledge)
A precis of my book, Attention, can be found at Lisa Bortolotti’s blog, Imperfect Cognitions: https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.de/2014/07/attention.html Both Lisa and I were featured scholars here as Jakob is now (thanks John). I still(!) think attention is important and happy to have any discussion of the topic or on the book, here …
It Takes Talent, Determination, Good Teachers, and Deliberate Practice
Today’s NY Times has an article about a new paper in Psychological Science on whether talent or practice is more important for elite performance. In a meta-analysis, the psychologists “found that deliberate practice explained 26% of the variance in performance for games, 21% for music, 18% for sports, 4% for education, …
Consciousness in the predictive mind
The prediction error minimization (PEM) account of brain function may explain perception, learning, action, attention and understanding. That at least is what its proponents claim, and I suggested in an earlier post that perhaps the brain does nothing but minimize its prediction error. So far I haven’t talked explicitly about …