Recently there have been some valuable inititiatives in the philosophy of science in MO.Three philosophers at U of MO – Columbia (Andre Ariew, Andrew Melnik, and Philip Robbins) have organized the first Missouri Philosophy of Science Workshop, which will take place next weekend in Columbia.And some philosophers in St. Louis …
Over the past two months, I’ve used a series of surveys to examine the relationship between the concept of knowledge and the concept of belief. So far, the results suggest that many people have intuitions which are in opposition to the claim that knowledge is a species of belief. For …
As announced a few weeks ago, I wrote a paper in which I survey the state of the art on computationalism. Thanks a lot to those who suggested topics I should cover. I touched on most of the suggested topics.The paper is due at Philosophy Compass by the end of the month. …
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The deadline for the SSPP 2009 is November 16, 2008. Consider submitting a paper or a symposium proposal. To submit a symposium proposal, the main thing you need are three or so willing participants, their contact information, and abstracts of the proposed papers.As I pointed out before, both the venue (Savannah, …
Call for Papers: Consciousness Online: The First Cyber Consciousness Conference February 20-27, 2009 Please post and distribute widely; appologies for cross-posting Following the success of the On-Line Philosophy Conference I am pleased to announce Consciousness Online: The first cyber consciousness conference. Invited talk by David Rosenthal. Papers in any area of consciousness studies …
I have finished a paper (here) that uses some experimental methods to examine a question that has agitated for a few years the philosophy of concepts: Does the class of concepts fragment into several very heterogeneous kinds? Here is the abstract: Psychologists of concepts’ traditional assumption that there are many …
