Philosophers' Carnival #112
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The Journal of Visualized Experiments
This website was just brought to my attention. It is the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), an “online research journal employing visualization to increase reproducibility and transparency in biological sciences”. It’s interesting and potentially quite useful. Does anyone have any thoughts on it?
Do Philosophers Rank their Journals?
A while ago Mark Couch alerted me to an article by Jeffrey Di Leo in Inside Higher Ed. Di Leo’s thesis is this: “It is one sign of the good health of the humanities that they have not caught rank and brand fever like many of the other disciplines in …
Can You Make a Conscious Machine?
I am writing a thesis on the possibility of machine consciousness (e.g., the possibility of creating a silicon-based system that has subjective, qualitative experiences in the same way we take ourselves to have them). In my informal (and very limited) polling, it seems that many philosophers are sympathetic to the …
Knowing That P Without Believing That P
For those interested, Eric Schwitzgebel and I have been exploring the relationship between knowledge ascriptions and belief ascriptions. We just finished a draft on this topic, which can be found here. Abstract: The standard view in contemporary epistemology is that knowledge entails belief. Proponents of this claim rarely offer a …
Aizawa on Turing-Equivalent Computation and Cognitive Science
In a previous thread, Ken Aizawa suggests that I’m insufficiently pluralistic about computation in cognitive science and to substantiate his criticism he points to his forthcoming article “Computation in Cognitive Systems; It’s not al about Turing-Equivalent Computation” (available on his website). Having read Ken’s nice paper, I only have time …
Information Processing, Computation, and Medium Independence
In response to a previous thread, Jonathan Livengood asked some very good questions about, roughly, what should count as information processing and computation in physical systems. Perhaps it will help to take a step back. In my early work on computation, I argued that, roughly, only physical processes that take strings of digits …