The Experiment Month initiative, run by Yale Cognitive Science and funded by the APA, is a program designed to help philosophers, who would not otherwise be able to, conduct experimental studies. Those interested in suggesting experiments can send their study proposals to the Experiment Month staff. A team of philosophers …
Hi Brainers. I’m writing to again promote an online reading group. The last one, which was on Daniel Hutto’s “Folk Psychological Narratives,” was a fantastic success, and we’d like to continue doing such groups. The new subject is Tad Zawidzki’s manuscript, “Mindshaping: Linchpin of the Human Socio-Cognitive Syndrome,” which is …
After a wayward few years, The Southern Journal of Philosophy has recently been overhauled: new look, new editorial board, new publisher, online back catalog, improved standards, fully online submission and review process, etc. Now under the imprint of Wiley-Blackwell, the SJP continues its nearly 50-year tradition of pluralism by publishing …
The following six theses characterize what I will call Fodorian Philosophy of Psychology (FPP, for short): There are psychological laws Psychological laws are required for psychological explanations Predicates used to express scientific laws pick out genuine properties Genuine properties are properties that ground causal relations Psychological properties are functional properties …
In an earlier post I outlined the case for qualia realism from the higher-order perspective as I see it.Dave Chalmers worried that one of the moves was too quick. The move in question is the move from concepts making a difference to phenomenal experience to their determining phenomenal experience. Basically the line I was pushing was that …
Here .
This may be worth checking out. Martha Farah conducted interviews with University of Pennsylvania faculty, as part of a recent lecture series, entitled “Conversations on Neuroscience and Society. ” The interviews include discussion on the neurodynamical underpinnings of emotion, gender, warfare, crime and philosopher Susan Schneider’s views on how our great-great grandchildren might think. Online …
