Two Kinds of Concept: Implicit and Explicit
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Experience as action
By Benj Hellie Brains readers: sup. Lovely to be here — thanks to Gualtiero for signing me up. I’ll kick off my tenure here with the fifty cent tour of a paper I’m working on as part of work on my book MS, Conscious Life. Title: ‘Experience as action’. Thesis: …
The Folk Concept(s) of Happiness
(cross-posted at the x-phi blog) I’ve finally written up a rough summary of some survey results I’ve been collecting for several years now, posted at the link below. This has been pretty informal so far, and I’d like to follow up with better studies using larger samples, as well as …
New URL for Jobs in Philosophy
By Jim Virtel Vincent Müller’s useful job posting site “Jobs in Philosophy” has changed its URL to https://www.jobsinphilosophy.org/. The site lists available philosophy positions on six continents and links to other philosophy job posting sites here.
PhilPapers Survey and Metasurvey Results
By Jim Virtel 3226 people completed PhilPapers’ Philosophical Survey and 727 people completed the Philosophical Metasurvey. The preliminary results of the survey and metasurvey are already posted. More results, such as geographical effects, will be posted later. You may also contribute to the discussion forum here.
Philosophical relevance, Part I
I just thought I would give everyone a heads-up on our very own Eric Schwitzgebel’s recent citation in The New Yorker in Margaret Talbot’s article on nightmare research, “Nightmare Scenario”. The article appeared in the Nov. 16, 2009 edition (available online only if you have a subscription).
Computational Crossroads
This interesting article in the New York Times got me thinking. We seem to be at a computational crossroad. If we are really about to hit a wall with respect to improving processing speed and power with traditional scaling techniques (though see this interesting article on a recent breakthrough in spintronics and this …