CALL FOR PAPERS Mental Files Special Issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology The concept of a mental file, introduced in the late sixties, has been used to theorize about a wide range of topics in the philosophy of mind and language, from the referential use of definite descriptions …
This is the first of a series of three blog posts about my book. It will introduce the main idea behind it, and highlight a few applications. The second post will present one of the chapters in a bit more detail. Finally, the last post will try to identify some …
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The following analysis was submitted by Brains reader Bill Skaggs, a neuroscientist whose published work is in electrophysiology, but who has been working for some time on a book about the relationship between consciousness and the brain. He blogs at https://weskaggs.net. — JS I would like to examine a famous set …
… at 3:AM Magazine. An excerpt: 3:AM: I presume much of your work connects with other fields in psychology, cognitive science, perceptual science, biology and so on. Are you signed up to the inter-disciplinarian nature of philosophy and would you agree with the xphi crew that actually this is much closer to what …
How could we cast suspicion on the semantic poverty thesis discussed in Part III? (Recall this is the view that ‘no amount of analysis, conjunction, or <insert your favorite semantic construction method here> applied to concepts about brain states will yield a concept about subjective experience as such.’). One way …
The following articles by Brains contributors were posted to PhilPapers during August and September. Please let me know of any errors or omissions. – JS
