Philosophers' Carnival #91
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Symposium on Doing without Concepts in Ottawa Wednesday May 27
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 …
More on Noe on the Origin of Cognitive Science
In a recent post, I criticized some passages from Alva Noe’s book, Out of Our Heads. I’d like to clarify some details. First, it was pointed out to me that my tone was disrespectful. I am truly sorry about that. My comments were only aimed at the quoted claims, not …
Emergence and Reduction: Call for Papers (deadline: August 15)
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) …
Did morality really evolve?
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.
Review Article on Computationalism
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 …
ASSC XIII
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 …