NEH Institute on Experimental Philosophy

This NEH Institute might be of interest to some readers of Brains: Experimental Philosophy is a new movement that uses experiments to address traditional philosophical questions.  Although the movement is only a few years old, it has attracted  prolific practitioners as well as ardent critics.  (For more about Experimental Philosophy, see the recent article in …

A Review of the Hypercomputation Literature

A. Syropoulos, Hypercomputation: Computing Beyond the Church-Turing Barrier. New York, Springer, 2008.There is now a wide range of proposals for physical (more or less) systems that purportedly compute functions that are not computable by Turing machines.  This new book reviews many proposals from the hypercomputation literature, such as infinite time …

Workshop on Doing without Concepts

To celebrate the publication of my book, Doing without Concepts (OUP, January 2009), the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh organizes a symposium with Barbara Malt (psychology, Lehigh) and Jesse Prinz (philosophy, UNC), March 5, 2009. They comment, I reply, we take some questions! Information here. If …

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