I have long wondered what dualists mean when they speak of nonphysical properties. Today I was reading Chalmers’ paper The Matrix as Metaphysics and he says something that may shed some light on the way in which he thinks of nonphysical properties. …
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By Jim Virtel GQ published an article describing the NFL’s reluctance to acknowledge Dr. Bennet Omalu’s discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in former NFL players who were originally diagnosed with dementia pugilistica. After Omalu published his results multiple times, the NFL refused to accept his work because Omalu knew …
Here are two things Dennett says about heterophenomenology: (1) Scientists should interpret a subject’s first-person reports as expressions of the subject’s beliefs (about their consciousness experience)(2) Scientists should treat people as incorrigible about what it’s like to be them. Since (2) seems to contradict Dennett’s often repeated claim that people …
Here’s an intriguing contrast. In philosophy journals, reviewers tend to think that papers with “positive” results are somehow superior to critical work with “negative” results. On the whole, the profession seems to think this right and proper. In medical journals, reviewers tend to think that an experiment that …
I have been away from Pittsburgh for about a year (May 2008-August 2009), and since I came back, I have been impressed by the amount of philosophy of cognitive science going on in Pittsburgh. To wit: – I am teaching a graduate seminar surveying the philosophy of cognitive science (Mark …
From the abstract: Classic visual deprivation experiments have led to the expectation that neural connections established during development would not appropriately process an input that was not present from birth. Therefore, it was believed that the treatment of congenital vision disorders would be ineffective unless administered to the very young. …
