Hi, thanks very much to Gualtiero for allowing me to post here. Last summer, I published an article in the journal Neuroethics discussing the possibility of genetically engineering livestock that lack the affective or “suffering” component of pain. New Scientist magazine picked up on the story and this generated a …
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via Sam Coleman; *The Phenomenal Qualities Project* Podcasts now available on the Project website- Featuring: Tim Crane, David Papineau, Philip GoffJerry Valberg, Andreas Hutteman, Sam Coleman on such topics as: The nature of phenomenal concepts, perception,consciousness and metaphysics, intentionalism,qualia, physicalism. Podcasts available at:https://phenomenalqualities.wordpress.com/phenomenal-podcasts/ See also our uploaded papers, and photos from recent …
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(cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!) The NYU Mind and Language seminar has started up again with a really excellent line up. I hope to blog about them as they happen… Last Monday I attended Ned Block’s session on his paper Attention and Mental Paint. I have talked about an earlier version of …
Hi Folks, I’m interested in doing a reading group on Daniel Hutto’s book, “Folk Psychological Narratives.” In the book Hutto challenges, and offers an alternative to, mindreading accounts of social cognition. His negative arguments against mindreading accounts (Theory Theory, Simulation Theory, and hybrid accounts) include the charge that they cannot …
By Jim Virtel Brains has experienced tremendous growth over the past few months. First, welcome to the many new contributors. Second, the site averages over 200 unique visitors per day — triple the amount of traffic in September 2009. Thanks to all contributors, old and new, for increasing Brains’ popularity. …
