Philosophers' Carnival #95
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Perception and stimulus statistics: any good experiments?
As part of a series on consciousness I am writing, I am presently writing up some notes on the Necker Cube. I have a question perhaps some of the more historically minded readers could answer. Most of you are familiar with the Necker Cube (see one to the left), a …
ZiF Conference on Extended Mind
The Extended Mind Thesis in Theory and Applications Date: November 23 – 25, 2009 Venue: ZiF Bielefeld, Germany https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/philosophie/extendedmind/
Workshop on Rob Rupert's new book
Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind (November 26, 2009) a one-day conference hosted by the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck, organized by Sven Walter. Speakers include: Ken Aizawa (Centenary College of Louisiana) Miriam Kyselo (University of Osnabrueck) Holger Lyre (University of Bielefeld) Robert Rupert (University of Colorado at …
Call for papers: SSPP 2010
The call for papers for the 2010 meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology has been posted. The conference will take place from April 15-17 (Thursday through Saturday) in Atlanta, GA. I am the philosophy program chair, and Lauren Taglialatela of Kennesaw State is the psychology program chair. …
Philosophers' Carnival #94
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Whatever Happened to the Echoic Buffer?
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 …