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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ASSC XIII finished on Monday but it was so packed that I needed a couple of days to rest and ruminate. Contrary to somehow disappointing TSC in Budapest in 2007, ASSC XIII was excellent, and as Thomas Metzinger stressed a couple of times, you could really see that the field …
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Jerry Fodor, LOT 2: The Language of Thought Revisited. Oxford, OUP, 2008. Some quick observations on Fodor’s new book: 1. As usual, a great book: ambitious, provocative, full of ideas and arguments, and as a bonus, funny (for those who like his humor). 2. He is still a computationalist, language-of-thought …
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If you are going to the annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association next week (Carleton University) or if you happen to be around Ottawa, you might want to come to the symposium on Doing without Concepts Wednesday May 27 2:00-5:00pm (room: AY 101). (Program here.) Christopher Hill (Brown), Diana …
