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CFP: 5th International Conference on Interactivity, Language & Cognition: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in the Cognitive and Language Sciences

Daniel Burnston May 17, 2021 November 25, 2022 CFPs / Uncategorized

5th International Conference on Interactivity, Language & Cognition: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in the Cognitive and Language Sciences Call for Papers – Extended Deadline! Online: 15-19 September 2021 website: http://hill.psych.uw.edu.pl/cilc5/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2676630182426566 mail: hill@hill.psych.uw.edu.pl Submission deadline: 15 May 2021 22 May 2021 The conference will most likely consist of …

Forming Impressions: Expertise in Perception and Intuition (2)

This is the second in a series of posts about my recently published book, Forming Impressions: Expertise in Perception and Intuition (OUP, 2020). Birds and Physics Problems In Chapters 2 and 3 of Forming Impressions, I argue that both expert perception and expert intuition manifest themselves in experience. When an …

Forming Impressions: Expertise in Perception and Intuition (1)

Elijah Chudnoff May 11, 2021 November 25, 2022 books / Elijah Chudnoff: Forming Impressions / Uncategorized

Introduction Radiologists can reliably tell whether a seen x-ray image is abnormal without scanning its details. This is an example of expert perception. Chess masters immediately think of superior moves, so that the move they ultimately choose differs from these initial options only in difficult cases. This is an example …

JOB: Tulane University

Daniel Burnston May 5, 2021 November 25, 2022 jobs / Uncategorized

Job Description The Tulane Philosophy and English Departments in connection with the Cognitive Studies Program invite applications for a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor to start fall 2021. Teaching responsibilities will include expository science writing and one or more of the core Cognitive Studies courses, such as: Mind in Evolution, Consciousness, …

Call for Abstracts: First Graduate Conference (Online) of the Italian Association for Cognitive Science

Daniel Burnston May 4, 2021 November 25, 2022 Uncategorized

First Graduate Conference (Online) of the Italian Association for Cognitive Science http://www.aisc-net.org/home/next-conference/ Natural &/or Artificial Minds September, 13th (late afternoon) & 14th (morning) Since its early days, cognitive science has been characterized by analogies between the human and other minds, be them (non-human) biological or artificial. The consideration of non-human …

CFP: Special Issue of Topoi, “What’s so special about faces?”

Daniel Burnston May 3, 2021 November 25, 2022 CFPs / Uncategorized

Topoi. An International Review of PhilosophyCFP for a Thematic Issue What’s so special about faces? Visages at the crossroad between philosophy, semiotics and cognition Guest editors: Marco Viola & Massimo Leone (University of Turin) Faces, or at least T-shaped face patterns, grab human beings’ attention since the very earlier days …

Rational Powers in Action III: Instrumental Rationality and Indeterminate Ends.

Sergio Tenenbaum April 21, 2021 November 25, 2022 books / Sergio Tenenbaum: Rational Powers In Action / Uncategorized

Let me start with a bit more detail on the structure of the Extended Theory of Rationality (ETR). Suppose I am intentionally baking a cake. According to ETR, this action is an end that I am pursuing, and thus the principle of instrumental reasoning enjoins me to pursue sufficient means. …