Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences is hosting a special issue on embodied cognition’s accounts of social cognition. Submissions are due March 1, 2011. For more information, see the journal’s website (here).
Perusing the new issue of Philosophical Studies that came out I came across Chad Kidd’s paper Phenomenal Consciousness with Infallible Self-Representation, which happens to be freely available on Phil Studies home page. The paper is interesting and aims to respond to the challenge raised by Josh Weisberg’s paper Same Old, Same Old: The …
An interesting confrence on Church’s Thesis, with excellent speakers, takes place in Krakow, Poland, on June, 3-5. See the conference website.
Hey Brainers, Eric’s post the other day about conceivability arguments got me thinking about Jackson’s (1982) thought experiment about Mary the color scientist–in particular, about a conversation with Justin Sytsma that I had at the PSA this past Fall. Here is a sketch of the Mary case: Mary is a …
A very interestinginterdisciplinary conference plus workshop organized by Kathleen Akins and Brit Brogaard in Vancouver on August 4-7, 2011 .
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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 …
