Burge against neurobabble
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Cognitio 2011: Nonhuman Minds: Animal, Artificial or Other Minds
Cognitio 2011 Young researchers conference in cognitive science Montréal, July 3rd, 4th and 5th 2011 Nonhuman Minds: Animal, Artificial or Other Minds Cognitio is a young researcher’s conference now held every two years at the Université du Québec à Montréal, under the auspices of its Cognitive Science Institute. Over the …
Philosophers' Carnival #118
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Functional Analyses as Mechanism Sketches
Carl Craver and I have written a paper arguing that functional analyses are just elliptical mechanistic explanations, contrary to the received view that functional analysis is distinct and autonomous from mechanistic explanation. Corollary: contrary to the received view, psychological explanation is not distinct and autonomous from neuroscientific explanation–rather, psychological explanation …
List of arguments against physicalism about consciousness
Many have a strong intuition that consciousness cannot be a brain process, but what are the arguments for this claim? I’m listing every one I can think of below. If you know any others, please let me know in the comments this could be a useful quick-and-dirty resource for people …
Philosophers' Carnival
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Schneider on The Language of Thought
Susan Schneider’s provocative book on the Language of Thought is forthcoming from MIT Press in April 2011. It’s also posted on her website . Feel free to take a look at it and get back to her. She told me she’d love to have your feedback.