Philosophers' Carnival
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Philosophers' Carnival #116
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Burge on Perception and Representation
Saturday I attended a workshop on the predicative structure of experience sponsored by the New York Consciousness Project, which is in turn sponsored by the New York Institute of Philosophy . Speaking was Tyler Burge and Mark Johnston with commentary by Alex Byrne and Adam Pautz respectively. I may write a separate …
What Are the Best Defenses of the Afterlife?
Keith Augustine and Michael Martin are putting together an anthology of papers arguing that there is no afterlife. They commissioned a paper from me. I am happy to enroll as a culture warrior, so I’m planning to co-author a piece with my colleague Sonya Bahar –the director of the Center for Neurodynamics here at …
Is the polar planimeter an analog computer?
I’ve had a Gibsonian ask me about this device. I say it’s an information processor (not in the technical Shannon sense) and an analog computer. Other opinions? Wikipedia description.
Philosophers' Carnival #115
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References for semantic argument against identity theory?
There is a standard story about the emergence of the identity theory. Namely, before (say) 1956, because the concept of an experience was not synonymous with the concept of a brain state, we knew a priori that experiences could not be brain states. Let’s call this the semantic argument against …