As one might have expected, my book Doing without Concepts is meeting some resistance, and the first reviews have raised some interesting (and some less interesting, I think) objections to the claims made there (in a more or less pleasant tone!). Although this is not really the place to answer any of these …
In Czech Republic, due to the financial crisis, the government wants to liquidate research institutions of Czech Academy of Science as well as to stop funding all basic research (including philosophy). Here is the website where you can help Czech scientists by signing a petition and read more.
The most recent in my series of posts on consciousness presents some examples of ambiguous stimuli. Predictably, an anonymous commenter chimed in about how such illusions will never shed light on the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness. So, for posterity, here is my response to the hard problem reflex that is …
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By Jim Virtel Crooked Timber linked to an interesting yet disconcerting post about the power of incompetence in Italian academic circles. The full article is also worth your time. (Hat tip to Andrea Scarantino)
In Inside Higher Ed.
In a new paper by Andrea Scarantino and me, we outline the relations between cognition and (different notions of) computation and information processing, as well as the relations between the different notions of computation and information processing. To my knowledge, this has not been done before (except in an earlier, less sophisticated …
