Philosophers' Carnival #105
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Updated Resources for Students (and Some New Papers)
I finally updated most of my website after over a year of neglect. With help from Jim Virtel, we added a whole bunch of new links to my list of resources for students, such as information on how to study, apply to grad school, publish, and apply for jobs. Let me …
Challenging Neuroscience to Explain Cognition
C, R, Gallistel and A. P. King, Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science Will Transform Neuroscience, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. This is a rich and thought-provoking book. I cannot do it justice in a brief post so I apologize in advance for that. Roughly speaking, the book argues that (1) many …
The Identity Theory in 2-D
(cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!) I plan on writing a series of posts discussing various themes that came up in discussion at the online consciousness conference over the next few weeks. I have long been a type-type identity theorist. There was a time when I thought that I would write my …
A bibliography on modularity
I have been asked to write up a commentated bibliography on modularity for a new journal by OUP. It is not meant to be exhaustive; rather it should focus on the important articles and books and organize this in meaningful sections. Perhaps some of you will have comments and suggestions. …
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 …