New Philosophers' Carnival
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In Prison, Without Knowing Why
This article in the New York Times caught my attention yesterday, partly because just a few weeks ago I commented on paper at the Central APA meeting on the punishment of late stage demented offenders: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/health/dealing-with-dementia-among-aging-criminals.html The number of prisoners in the US with dementia is on the rise. The …
New Philosophers' Carnival
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4th Online Consciousness Conference
has now officially begun and will run until March 2nd. Stop by https://consciousnessonline.com to get in on the action!
The Overflow Cup Runneth Over
[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] There has been a lot of action on the overflow front lately! It started with papers by Ned Block and Dennett and Cohen in Trends in Cognitive Science (Block’s paper criticized, among others, my recent paper on this stuff). These articles spawned a response by me …
For those going to the Central APA next week
Here is an interesting session organized by David Anderson: FRIDAY, February 17, 3-6pm (at the Palmer House, Chicago) SESSION ON “Machine Consciousness” (Sponsored by the APA Committee on Computers and Philosophy) Chair: David Leech Anderson (Illinois State University) 3:00 Ned Block (New York University), “Can thinking about …
Explaining Cartesian Consciousness
[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] In his classic paper “Two Concepts of Consciousness” David Rosenthal says “…if consciousness is essential to mentality no informative, nontrivial explanation of consciousness is possible” (2005 p 22). The claim is, roughly, that if all mental states are conscious and if there are no mental states …