By Jim Virtel The latest issue of BBS includes a précis of Edouard Machery’s Doing Without Concepts —the book that boldly argues that the term “concept” should be eliminated from psychology. The fourth tenet of Machery’s Heterogeneity Hypothesis (HH) proposes that prototypes, exemplars, and theories —three types of concept —are …
I know that most folks get their conference CFPs, etc. from other sources, but this one seems to me a) to be flying a little low on the radar and b) to be pretty cool. I went to one of these a long time ago in Florence, which was both …
In other Aizawa-relevant news, Steven Philips and Williams Wilson have a new theory of the systematicity of thought based on category theory. With their publication, they have joined an elite group of academics who have referred to my book, The Systematicity Arguments. (Fodor mentions it in LOT 2 and …
As many of you may know, I have been thinking about the following problem for a while: Suppose that scientists discover a high level property G that is prima facie multiply realized by two sets of lower level properties, F1, F2, …, Fn, and F*1, F*2, …, F*m. One response …
My Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Computation in Physical Systems has just been published. As some of you know, it discusses three main topics: (i) what it takes for a physical system to implement a computation, (ii) whether every physical system implements computations, and (iii) which functions are physically computable. The …
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In a review of John Haugeland’s Having Thought, Dan Dennett called Haugeland’s essay “Representational Genera” a “stunning piece” and a “display of philosophical move-making of the highest order” (Journal of Philosophy, December 1998). I, too, admire this piece by Haugeland, but it seems to have gotten little attention (the piece …
