In Chap. 6 of his book LOT 2, Jerry Fodor runs an argument for the existence of nonconceptual content based on Sperling’s experiments from the 1960s. Sperling (followed by Fodor) explained his results by postulating the “echoic buffer” or “echoic store”, which is a perceptual system that maintains an image of …
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Many readers of Brains should be interested by this new journal: The European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) has signed a contract with Springer concerning the establishment of a new journal: the European Journal for Philosophy of Science (EJPS). The Editorial Team is a group of excellent philosophers of science …
Springer just released a new quarterly journal called ‘Cognitive Computation’, which might be of interest to some of the readers of this blog. The editor, Amir Hussain, summarizes the goal of the journal as follows: “Cognitive Computation specifically aims to publish cutting-edge articles describing original basic and applied work involving …
By Brandon Towl Being a newly minted (and still jobless) PhD, I’ve been doing some serious thinking about projects I want to tackle in the next five years or so. One idea was to write something– either a few papers or perhaps a book– on interesting puzzles or problems in …
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