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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
By Manolo Martinez In my last post I was assuming familiarity with something not many people is familiar with. I apologise. Let me say a quick thing about the imperative content strategy to defend representationalism about pain. Before that, representationalism: this is the idea that the phenomenal character of experiences …
By Manolo Martinez [UPDATE] I have posted a quick summary of the imperative content strategy in dealing with affective phenomenology here. Hello everyone. This is my first post for Brains! So, yep: great to be here, etc. A quick caveat: I’m afraid this post makes a tl;dr response perfectly appropriate. …
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