Emergence and Reduction in the Sciences (Second Pittsburgh-Paris Workshop) Center for Philosophy of Science and Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh / Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris Friday, December 11- Saturday, December 12, 2009 (possibly extending to morning, Sunday, December 13) …
I say no. Watch the video (from my talk at UCLA in the Brain Evolution Culture series) and the Questions and Answers. Comments and suggestions welcome as usual.
My review of recent literature on Computationalism has recently been published in Philosophy Compass. I hope it will help people get up to date as well as push the debate forward. If you are interested in the paper but your library does not subscribe to the journal, feel free to …
I’ve just noticed that the program for ASSC XIII in Berlin (June, 5th-8th) has been published. Alas, I seem to be the only Brains contributor out there (having a talk during concurrent sessions), so I will surely report more here. I will defend a version of computationalism (more along the …
The program for the next meeting of the SPP (June 13-15) is now available on-line. You can also register for the conference and book a room. A few Brains readers (including Dan Weiskopf, Ken Aizawa and myself) will be presenting at the meeting, and I hope some of you will …
Some readers of Brains might be interested by the recently created Experimental Philosophy Society. Our goal is, broadly speaking, to promote the use of experimental methods within philosophy. You can join the society for a modest fee. We plan to use these fees to organize meetings at the APAs (Eastern, …
Kris Rhodes, grad student at UC-Irvine, has started The Extended Cognition Blog. I’ve posted an entry and a comment to help get it going. I’m betting others are welcome.
