CFP: “Social Minds” Philosophy Graduate Conference

The Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland, College Park is pleased to announce the Social Minds Philosophy Graduate Conference, which will take place on April 18th and 19th, 2015. Keynote presentations will be given by Bryce Huebner (Georgetown) and Tad Zawidzki (George Washington). Graduate students are invited to submit …

Decomposing the hierarchy of thought

Like other social animals, humans are status-conscious creatures, obsessed with hierarchy and rankings. This is obvious in the realm of finance, the entertainment industry, and academic reputation-chasing, but it also turns up in the more staid realms of theory. Psychology and ethology make frequent reference to the distinction between the …

Keeping concepts in context

Conceptual pluralism is the view for any category that we can think about, we typically possess many different concepts of it—that is, many different ways of representing that category in higher cognition. Different kinds of concepts encode their own specific perspective on the target category, and each one can be …

Representational pluralism: A brief taxonomy

Thanks very much to Kristina and John for inviting me to post here at Brains. I’m hoping to take this opportunity to revisit and update a few past themes in my research, and sketch some lines of inquiry that I’m either pursuing now or hope to take up in the …

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