This post ends with a brief discussion about anxiety about the internal. I take that anxiety to arise when we see strong arguments for the idea that theories cannot successfully posit non-reducible mental states that provide distinctive causal explanations. The idea that the causal powers producing our beliefs, actions and …
The 2014 volume of the Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication is co-edited by Edouard Machery and Jesse Prinz. It’s available here, and looks great! All of the papers are free to access, without license or subscription.
Call for Abstracts: Language at the Interface Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University Vancouver, April 24-26, 2015 Speakers Peter Carruthers (Maryland) Wolfram Hinzen (Barcelona/Durham) Friederike Moltmann (CNRS/NYU) Anna Papafragou (Delaware) Conference Overview Serious and detailed proposals concerning the relationship between language and thought—or, as it might be put today, the …
It’s published by Oxford, sponsored by the ASSC, edited by Anil Seth, Biyu Jade He, and Jakob Hohwy, and open for submissions in January 2015. Oh, and it’s open access. From the publisher’s description: Neuroscience of Consciousness is a new open access journal which will publish papers on the biological basis of consciousness, with an …
There seems to be a widely shared sense these days that the philosophical study of mind has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. Back in the twentieth century, the field was dominated by a very specific sort of research program, but it seems like less and less work is being done …
The announcement of my contributions says that they will in part concern my recent Keeping the World in Mind: Mental Representations and the Sciences of the Mind. The overriding theme of that book is the proper understanding of “representation” as it occurs in recent cognitive neuroscience, broadly understood. I argue …
It’s my great pleasure to introduce Anne Jaap Jacobson as our next featured scholar. Anne is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston and Director of the UH Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science. She is also a Visiting Academic at Somerville College, …
