Philosophers' Carnival #123
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Call for Papers: On David Chalmers’s “A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition.”
David Chalmers’s 1993 paper, “A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition,” contains his most systematic discussion of computation as a foundation for cognitive science. The paper has been posted online (https://consc.net/papers/computation.html), discussed, and cited during all these years. The paper will finally be published in a special issue of the …
Workshop: Experimental Philosophy of Consciousness
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 …
Philosophers' Carnival #122
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Consciousness studies in the popular media
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 …
The Identity Theory and Mind-Brain Correlations
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 …
Russellian Monism
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 …