In just a little less than two weeks, New York City will be home to the second annual Experimental Philosophy Workshop. This year’s workshop will be highlighting research in the experimental philosophy of consciousness, with presentations by Shaun Nichols, Edouard Machery and Kurt Gray and commentaries by Alvin Goldman, David …
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One thing that I find frustrating, as I’m sure many of us do, is the quality of attempts to bring the study of consciousness (and the mind/brain more generally) to those outside of academia. I don’t just mean oversimplifications (God brain area found!), but how much of what is said …
By Brandon Towl In another thread (“What’s a good reading against type-identity theory for neuroscientists?”), I mentioned that I had a forthcoming paper in Philosophical Psychology that puts pressure on the IBE argument for identity theory. Below is the abstract. If anyone would like a draft of the paper, please …
The Online Consciousness Conference is now in its second week (It lasts until March 4th so there is still time to be involved). One thing that has come out in the discussion is the differences between Russellian Monism and epiphenomenalism. RM is the view that the dispositional properties talked about …
I am looking for suggestions on empirically informed philosophy of mind journals that like short pieces, 3000 words or less. I know about Analysis but, in my experience, it is very hard to publish there. Any ideas?
As a materialist I am often troubled by how rarely I use neuroscientific studies in building or testing cognitive hypotheses. I’m often tempted to write this off a just a methodology issue; BOLD doesn’t get us to representing vehicles, EEG and MEG pick up amalgamated waves etc etc. But, still, …
