Below is a CFP that may be of interest to Brains readers. PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE: DEBATES ON EMBODIED SOCIAL COGNITION SPECIAL EDITOR: SHANNON SPAULDING Rationale: Embodied Cognition (EC) is a research program that challenges the basic tenets of Cognitivism, the standard position in …
By Brandon Towl Hello again Brains readers– I’m turning to you again for your help and insights. Here is a link to a draft of a paper I am working on tentatively entitled “Multiple Realizability without Multiply Realizable Properties”. I’d appreciate any feedback or comments on it from interested parties. …
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The following post is a bit of a rant, written in the tradition of the angry bloggers of yore…
The first part discusses Scholarpedia’s section on consciousness. The second part is a dialogue I overheard on higher-order theories of consciousness.
I just wrote the final version of an introduction to computationalism to be published in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Cognitive Science. I need to turn it in in a couple of weeks. I am posting it
Here is a nice article on how to write good referee reports on journal articles. The article is by Henry Roediger, a distinguished psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis (thanks to his colleague Jeff Zacks for the pointer), so it focuses on psychology. But mutatis mutandis virtually all of …
On Wednesday I attended the inaugural session of the Graduate Center’s philosophy colloquium. The speaker was Joe Levine and he wanted to examine two of the arguments for the phenomenology of thought as given by people like David Pitt and Charles Siewert and argue that they were not up to the …
