CFP: Church's Thesis: Logic, Mind and Nature
An interesting confrence on Church’s Thesis, with excellent speakers, takes place in Krakow, Poland, on June, 3-5. See the conference website.
A Question about Mary
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 …
CFP: More or Less: Varieties of Human Cortical Color Vision
A very interestinginterdisciplinary conference plus workshop organized by Kathleen Akins and Brit Brogaard in Vancouver on August 4-7, 2011 .
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 …