Philosopher's Carnival #124
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Workshop on Philosophy and the Brain: Computation, Realization, Representation
Coming up 16-19 May at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. If you happen to be in Israel at that time, you shouldn’t miss it.
The Conceivability of Shombies
I just noticed that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Zombies was recently updated (authored by Robert Kirk, who’s book I reviewed for phil. psych). I was pleased to see that my JCS paper was mentioned in the “anti-zombie argument for physicalism” section. But Kirk cites my paper as …
Experiment Month Studies Now Live
The Yale Experiment Month studies have now gone live here. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Experiment Month is an APA-sponsored initiative designed to give a selected number of applicants the opportunity to carry out studies in experimental philosophy. There are a number of studies on the site that …
Braintrust
Patricia Churchland’s new book Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality is now out. I haven’t read it yet, but I know she has been talking about and researching this topic for a long time. I expect it to be a fun, interesting read. Her basic thesis is that morality …
The Allure of Moral Psychology vs. the Foundations of Cognitive Science
In the last month or so, two Ph.D. students at two different schools told me they changed their research focus from foundational topics (such as computational theories of cognition) to moral psychology. Is this indicative of a trend? Moral psychology is obviously fascinating and has seen much new work in recent …
Neural Computation and the Computational Theory of Cognition
This paper (co-authored with theoretical and experimental neuroscientist Sonya Bahar) is what I’ve been aiming at during all these years. This is why I made this big fuss over developing an adequate non-semantic account of computation. I think the paper is finally ready to submit, but I’d love to get some …