As one might have expected, my book Doing without Concepts is meeting some resistance, and the first reviews have raised some interesting (and some less interesting, I think) objections to the claims made there (in a more or less pleasant tone!). Although this is not really the place to answer any of these …
The most recent in my series of posts on consciousness presents some examples of ambiguous stimuli. Predictably, an anonymous commenter chimed in about how such illusions will never shed light on the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness. So, for posterity, here is my response to the hard problem reflex that is …
As part of a series on consciousness I am writing, I am presently writing up some notes on the Necker Cube. I have a question perhaps some of the more historically minded readers could answer. Most of you are familiar with the Necker Cube (see one to the left), a …
Many readers of Brains should be interested by this new journal: The European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) has signed a contract with Springer concerning the establishment of a new journal: the European Journal for Philosophy of Science (EJPS). The Editorial Team is a group of excellent philosophers of science …
By Brandon Towl Being a newly minted (and still jobless) PhD, I’ve been doing some serious thinking about projects I want to tackle in the next five years or so. One idea was to write something– either a few papers or perhaps a book– on interesting puzzles or problems in …
If you are going to the annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association next week (Carleton University) or if you happen to be around Ottawa, you might want to come to the symposium on Doing without Concepts Wednesday May 27 2:00-5:00pm (room: AY 101). (Program here.) Christopher Hill (Brown), Diana …
Emergence and Reduction in the Sciences (Second Pittsburgh-Paris Workshop) Center for Philosophy of Science and Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh / Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris Friday, December 11- Saturday, December 12, 2009 (possibly extending to morning, Sunday, December 13) …
