By Jim Virtel On Friday April 30th and Saturday May 1st, the PNP Program at Washington University in St. Louis held a Concept Learning Workshop. Philosophers Richard Samuels, Daniel Weiskopf, and David Danks and psychologists Lance Rips, Lori Markson, and Susan Carey presented some of their recent, interesting work on …
A lot of philosophers seem to take the higher-order thought theory of consciousness to be eliminative or deflationary about consciousness; of course, it doesn’t help that people go around saying that we need to get rid of qualia or even that we should endorse the claim that we ourselves are …
By Jim Virtel My fellow UMSLytes Eric Wiland and John Brunero are hosting the first St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality (SLACRR) from May 23-25. Information on registration, accomodations, the program lineup, and places to visit in St. Louis can be found here.
By Brandon Towl Today, I spent a little time thinking about introspection and the various ways that it can be used as evidence (a topic that our own Gualtiero Piccinini has written about, though I also had in mind the kind of “polling” that Hurlburt and Schwitzgeibel do). I began …
By Jim Virtel Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages: welcome to the 107th Philosophers’ Carnival! Come inside to see our amazing attractions: Our main tent contains posts concerning: Philosophy of Mind! – Gary Williams argues that empiricists don’t have to accept Berkeley’s conclusion that sense-data are private at …
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. …
