Philosophy Carnival #57
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Multicolor Labeling of Neurons
Pretty cool stuff.
h-index
The other day I was procrastinating on preparing for class, so I went over to Chalmers’s MindPapers. It didn’t take all that long before I did a search on “Aizawa” and found a few papers. I also noted that most were not cited. That reminded me of a discussion not …
The Rise of Simulation Theory
As far as I know, the modern debate ab out folk psychology begins with Wilfrid Sellars’s view that folk psychology is a proto-scientific theory. For a while, the whole debate was over whether such a theory was mostly correct or incorrect, reducible or irreducible to lower-level theories. Then in the …
Extended Cognition News
Last month, at Shaun Gallagher’s Cognition: Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, Extended conference, Fred Adams and I met with some criticism of our views on extended cognition. Andy Clark, Richard Menary, and Pierre Steiner, among others, were allied against us. Finally, after six years, however, Fred and I are getting our second …
Philosophy Carnival #56
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Monetary Evidence of Human Estrus
Apparently human females go into heat, contrary to a common assumption. The evidence is that professional lap dancers receive significantly more tips during the phase following ovulation, i.e., when they are fertile. (From an article in the last issue of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.)