By Brandon Towl In another thread (“What’s a good reading against type-identity theory for neuroscientists?”), I mentioned that I had a forthcoming paper in Philosophical Psychology that puts pressure on the IBE argument for identity theory. Below is the abstract. If anyone would like a draft of the paper, please …
The Online Consciousness Conference is now in its second week (It lasts until March 4th so there is still time to be involved). One thing that has come out in the discussion is the differences between Russellian Monism and epiphenomenalism. RM is the view that the dispositional properties talked about …
I am looking for suggestions on empirically informed philosophy of mind journals that like short pieces, 3000 words or less. I know about Analysis but, in my experience, it is very hard to publish there. Any ideas?
As a materialist I am often troubled by how rarely I use neuroscientific studies in building or testing cognitive hypotheses. I’m often tempted to write this off a just a methodology issue; BOLD doesn’t get us to representing vehicles, EEG and MEG pick up amalgamated waves etc etc. But, still, …
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Wayne Wu (CMU) would like to present arguments against type-identity theory to his group of neuroscientists in his phil cog sci class, and he is wondering what papers he should have them read. As the audience is a specific one, he is disinclined to some of the classics (e.g. Kripke’s argument in Naming and …
