By Brandon Towl Today, I spent a little time thinking about introspection and the various ways that it can be used as evidence (a topic that our own Gualtiero Piccinini has written about, though I also had in mind the kind of “polling” that Hurlburt and Schwitzgeibel do). I began …
By Jim Virtel Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages: welcome to the 107th Philosophers’ Carnival! Come inside to see our amazing attractions: Our main tent contains posts concerning: Philosophy of Mind! – Gary Williams argues that empiricists don’t have to accept Berkeley’s conclusion that sense-data are private at …
At the recent meeting of the Pacific APA, I had an interesting conversation with a prominent philosopher of science who also does some work in cognitive science. We were talking about whether neuroscience and psychology contrain each other. I was arguing that they do. He suggested that perhaps the only …
Yesterday I attended Dave Chalmers’ session of the Mind and
Language Seminar where we discussed his new paper on the singularity.I have previously seen him give this talk at CUNY and I was looking forward to the commentary from Jesse and Ned and the discussion that
followed. …
Have you ever felt that you could really use a reference defending exactly the bold and sweeping claim you are making? I’ve recently stumbled upon a new way to solve this problem: cite the book you’re writing. That’s right! The very book that makes the claim that needs support. On …
Next week I am heading up to SUNY Freedonia to give two talks as part of the Young Philosophers Lecture Series . Here is a rehearsal of the first talk which is my most recent attempt to show that Rosenthal’s HOT theory is committed to cognitive phenomenology
By Jim Virtel After posting the first call on April 8th, Brains has not received many submissions for the next edition of the Philosophers’ Carnival on April 26th. We will accept submissions from all areas of philosophy, but will give preference to those in the field of philosophy of mind …
