Philosophers’ Carnival #74
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Ramsey Reconsiders Representation
William Ramsey, Representation Reconsidered, CUP, 2007.This is the most up to date and systematic discussion of representation that I know of. It distinguishes four notions of representation and discusses their pros and cons, carefully and often insightfully. That’s enough to make it a useful book.Needless to say, there is more to …
“Zombies did not fall from the sky”
The title of this post is my favorite quote from J. Heil, From An Ontological Point of View, OUP, 2003 (from p. 248).Heil’s point is that “The zombie possibility turns on substantive philosophical theses concerning properties, powers, and laws of nature. I have argued at length, and on independent grounds, against these …
ECAP 6 in Cracow
The program of the European Congress of Analytical Philosophy is here. There are some interesting papers for readers of Brains, for example Stanisław Krajewski will present his short argument against all Lucas- and Penrose-style arguments. I wrote a protocol of his habilitation colloquium back in 2004 (or earlier) – he …
PSA 2008 Draft Program
The preliminary program of the 2008 Philosophy of Science Association Meeting is out. The meeting will take place on November 6–8, 2008, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There will be many talks on the sciences of minds and brains, including a symposium I organized, on “Neural Computation” (other participants: Carl Craver, Oron Shagrir, and Jackie …
SSPP 2008 – Submit a Paper or Symposium
The CFP for the next conference of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology is out. The conference will take place in Savannah, GA over Easter weekend, i.e., Thursday April 9 to Saturday April 11, 2009.I am the program chair. I want to call your attention to a new feature of …
Computation in Cognitive Science (After the Fact)
Many thanks to Mark Sprevak for organizing the fabulous conference on computation in cognitive science that took place on July 7-8 at King’s College, Cambridge. Several of us Brains contributors (Aizawa, Gillett, Rusanen, Weiskopf, and me) were there. I had a great time. The papers were excellent: although they are drafts, reading …