Philosophers' Carnival #96
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Italian Academics Are a "Kakistocracy"
By Jim Virtel Crooked Timber linked to an interesting yet disconcerting post about the power of incompetence in Italian academic circles. The full article is also worth your time. (Hat tip to Andrea Scarantino)
An Interesting Look at a Job Search in Philosophy
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Information Processing, Computation, and Cognition
In a new paper by Andrea Scarantino and me, we outline the relations between cognition and (different notions of) computation and information processing, as well as the relations between the different notions of computation and information processing. To my knowledge, this has not been done before (except in an earlier, less sophisticated …
Should Scientific Methods and Data be Public?
At the last Eastern APA meeting in Philly, I attended an excellent session on The Epistemology of Experimental Practices, with Allan Franklin and Marcel Weber. During the discussion, I asked whether scientific methods and data should be public – that is, whether different investigators applying the same methods to the …
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 …