Congratulations
Gualtiero is too modest to announce it here, so I’ll do it! Congratulations for your tenure, Gualtiero! Very well-deserved. Edouard
HOT Damn!
I have not been too good keeping up with the NYU Mind and Language Seminar like I had originally planned. Part of the problem was the Online Consciousness Conference (about which more later) the other part of the problem has been that I teach until 3:30 and the sessions start …
What is a visual stimulus?
Find out at my most recent consciousness post, and figure out how to decode graphs like this:Hint: line density equals photoreceptor density, and top is bottom because images are inverted on the retina. If that doesn’t make sense, check out the long version. It’s part of my eight-million post series …
Call for Commentaries on Cognitive Control
Rick Cooper (psychology, U London) is putting together an issue of Topics in Cognitive Science (a new journal by the Cognitive Science Society) on the fascinating topic of cognitive control. They are soliciting commentaries on the introductory paper plus five target articles, including a nice one by our Pete Mandik. …
Block and Kitcher vs. Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini
In case anyone is interested in the response by Block and Kitcher to Fodor’s argument against evolutionary biology: https://bostonreview.net/BR35.2/block_kitcher.php
Journal of Cognitive Science – Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Journal of Cognitive Science
http://cogsci.snu.ac.kr/jcs.
This is an interdisciplinary, international, peer reviewed journal, published by the Institute for Cognitive Science at Seoul National University. The editor, Chungmin Lee, is in the process of revamping the journal, gaining distribution as part of the Springer network and listing in various databases. I recently agreed to serve as their philosophy editor, so philosophy papers are definitely welcome! More information below the fold.
The Latest Philosophers' Carnival
Here. Check out the prominence given to our Adam Shriver, including a link to his NY Times op-ed piece!!