Philosophers' Carnival #106
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Looking for a paper suggestion
By Brandon Towl I was hoping the readers of Brains could help me out with a paper suggestion: I am looking for a paper that would be a good example of a study from computational neuroscience and/or computer modeling in cognitive science. Something that shows the basics of the approach– …
What is non-perceptual positive conceivability?
By Kelly Trogdon Hello all, This is my first post here – thanks Gualtiero for inviting me. As I read Chalmers’ “Does Conceivability Entail Possibility?” (2002), he claims that a state of positive conceivability is positive in virtue of involving a “positive intuition” of a situation, and to have …
A Sexy Title for a Course on Mind and Evolution
Speaking of evolutionary theory, I’m going to propose a “new-ish” course dealing with evolution and the mind. The goal is to cover some topics in psychology/neuroscience from an evolutionary perspective. The problem is to find a good title. Here are some options: Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience Evolutionary Psychology Minds, Brains, and …
The free-rider problem
This is inspired by a discussion I had over on Evolving Thoughts. Perhaps one way to approach part of Fodor’s argument against natural selection is to focus on the lack of a “free-rider” type problem in other areas of science. I’m curious what others think of this. So, define a …
First mention of ‘content/vehicle’ distinction?
The conceptual distinction between representational vehicles and representational contents is very old, probably older than Plato. Lately, however, I’ve been wondering when the first use of this actual terminology emerged. Pete Mandik took time out from hammering brains to tell me he thinks the first use of this terminology might …
Philosophers' Carnival #105
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