Philosophers’ Carnival
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Deprioritizing the a Priori Arguments Against Physicalism
I have been working on a rewrite of the paper I presented at the first Consciousness Online and the Pacific apa for the special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies that I am editing. The paper is still very drafty and needs a couple more passes before it will be …
Some Comments on Doing Without Concepts
By Jim Virtel Edouard Machery’s Doing Without Concepts boldly argues for the elimination of the term “concept” from psychological literature. His argument runs as follows: individuals possess many different kinds of concepts which have very few properties in common. These concepts are used in distinct cognitive processes, so the term …
Welcome to the New Brains
How do you like Brains’ new design?
Keeping score of pragmatic inferentialism
The following is slightly revised set of questions I posted over at Words and Other Things. Since dipping my toe into Brandom’s inferential-role semantics about ten years ago, these are the questions that still linger. Most of them stem from the fact that (at least in the bits I’ve read) …
Mechanisms everywhere
At the beginning of September, we had another (already 6th) Kazimierz Naturalism Workshop in Kazimierz Dolny, and yesterday I just got back from GAP7 and a after-GAP7 workshop on reductionism, explanation and metaphors in philosophy of mind. Though contrary to your expectations, Carl Craver wasn’t talking about mechanisms in Kazimierz …
dead salmon categorizes human emotions
This nice study shows the need to beware of poorly controlled fMRI studies. (In particular: predefined significance thresholds = bad, multiple comparisons correction = good.)