Philosophers' Carnival #120
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Examples of successful conceivability arguments?
I’ve been reading over Chalmers’ conceivability/possibility arguments against materialist theories of mind. For those that don’t remember, his argument is: 1. We can conceive of zombies. 2. Conceivability implies logical possibility. 3. Therefore, zombies are logically possible. 4. If zombies are logically possible, then physicalism is false. 5. Therefore, physicalism …
Call for Book Proposals: Studies in Brain and Mind
Studies in Brain and Mind is a book series published by Springer. It covers all areas in which philosophy and neuroscience intersect: philosophy of mind, philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of psychiatry, neurophilosophy, and neuroethics. Under the previous editor, John Bickle, the series published several high quality …
Papineau on the Rise of Physicalism
I just read David Papineau’s excellent and provocative 2001 article, “The Rise of Physicalism “. He argues that physicalism is supported by the principle of the completeness of physics (sometimes known as the causal closure of the physical), and that theoretical and empirical evidence for such a principle slowly built …
Phenomenally HOT
The Spring semester is getting off to a start here in NYC. Yesterday I attended the first session of Ned Block and David Carmel’s seminar on Conceptual and Empirical Issues about Perception, Attention and Consciousness at NYU. This first session dealt with Block’s recent paper The Higher-Order Theory is Defunct. One …
Want to Contribute to Brains?
The new year prompts a reminder: if you work in philosophy of mind and related sciences and would like to contribute to Brains, feel free to email me.
OCC Program Finalized
I am pleased to announce that the program for the third Online Consciousness Conference is finalized and is available at the conference website: https://consciousnessonline.wordpress.com/ The conference begins February 18th and lasts until March 4th. Papers (but not commentaries) will be available to read one week before the conference starts February 11th. …