In this post I want to approach the topic of the previous post from a different angle. I raised two questions about the U&C study: whether people believe the comparative ratings (Question 1), and what inference, if any, leads them to their ultimate verdict (Question 2). Either question would be …
When you were a kid, did your room ever get really messy? Of course it did. Did its messiness bother you? Quite possibly not. Lots of kids are not at all bothered by their messy rooms. (Question: Does it even look messy to them, or does it look orderly? We …
I’m excited to be introducing our next featured scholar, Susanna Siegel. Susanna is Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. She received her PhD from Cornell University and works on topics in the philosophy of mind and epistemology.
University of Helsinki, Finland, 9–13 June 2015 Pre-conference workshops: 8 June 2015 https://www.helsinki.fi/tsc2015 Submission deadline: 30 November 2014 Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC) is the largest and longest-running interdisciplinary conference emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to the study of conscious awareness. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, biology, quantum …
I’ve just installed a lovely new plug-in that makes it possible to append your comments not just to the bottom of a post, but to the particular paragraph that you’re interested in discussing. To do this, just hover over the paragraph in question, and look for the little “talk” box, like …
One of the most neglected perspectives in traditional philosophy of mind/cogsci is that the mind is a biological system, and that therefore philosophy of mind/cogsci is a branch of philosophy of biology. Fortunately, Justin Garson has just published The Biological Mind (Routledge), an introduction to the philosophy of mind that …
