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 …
The special issue of The Journal of Consciousness Studies that I edited featuring descendants of selected papers from the first online consciousness conference is now out (including an excellent piece by Gualtiero that he bloged about previously)…it is entitled ‘Fishy and Here’ (from Clare Batty’s paper)…I hope that is meant as an …
Brains readers interested in extended cognition, please stop by my blog. https://theboundsofcognition.blogspot.com/ I post something small almost every day with each day’s post more or less closely related to the previous ones, like a stream of semi-consciousness… Thanks, Ken
