Philosophers' Carnival #114
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Consciousness at Scholarpedia, and a Dialogue on HOT Theories
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.
A Brief Introduction to Computationalism
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
On Refereeing Journal Articles
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 …
Levine on the Phenomenology of Thought
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 …
Philosophers' Carnival #113
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The Demise of "Cognitive Science"
For several years, I’ve felt that cognitive science as it was originally conceived is being progressively replaced by cognitive neuroscience. By “cognitive science as it was originally conceived,” I mean primarily the alliance between traditional cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence (either “classicist” or “connectionist”), supplemented by contributions from linguistics, philosophy of …