[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 …
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 …
[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 …
Brainers may be interested to know about the new blog of Steve Fleming on the science of the self: The Elusive Self
Here.
I have just finished writing a draft of paper on Turing machines being equivalent (or not) to human minds. This is an expanded (but still quite brief in many respects) version of my talk from the last year’s Studia Logica conference on Church’s Thesis. I defend the mechanist account of …
If you have undergraduate students looking for an interesting study abroad experience that will keep them on track in their philosophy, psychology, computer science, or cognitive science major, please point them towards the Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science (https://www.bscs-us.org/). It is a really good program, and has had regular participation …
