In the last month or so, two Ph.D. students at two different schools told me they changed their research focus from foundational topics (such as computational theories of cognition) to moral psychology. Is this indicative of a trend? Moral psychology is obviously fascinating and has seen much new work in recent …
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David Chalmers’s 1993 paper, “A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition,” contains his most systematic discussion of computation as a foundation for cognitive science. The paper has been posted online (https://consc.net/papers/computation.html), discussed, and cited during all these years. The paper will finally be published in a special issue of the …
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One thing that I find frustrating, as I’m sure many of us do, is the quality of attempts to bring the study of consciousness (and the mind/brain more generally) to those outside of academia. I don’t just mean oversimplifications (God brain area found!), but how much of what is said …
The Online Consciousness Conference is now in its second week (It lasts until March 4th so there is still time to be involved). One thing that has come out in the discussion is the differences between Russellian Monism and epiphenomenalism. RM is the view that the dispositional properties talked about …
I am looking for suggestions on empirically informed philosophy of mind journals that like short pieces, 3000 words or less. I know about Analysis but, in my experience, it is very hard to publish there. Any ideas?
