The CFP for the next conference of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology is out. The conference will take place in Savannah, GA over Easter weekend, i.e., Thursday April 9 to Saturday April 11, 2009.I am the program chair. I want to call your attention to a new feature of …
Many thanks to Mark Sprevak for organizing the fabulous conference on computation in cognitive science that took place on July 7-8 at King’s College, Cambridge. Several of us Brains contributors (Aizawa, Gillett, Rusanen, Weiskopf, and me) were there. I had a great time. The papers were excellent: although they are drafts, reading …
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Penelope Maddy’s book Second Philosophy is exhilarating in its scope and content. She advocates a brand of methodological naturalism she denotes ‘Second Philosophy.’
The first section of the book is Maddy’s exposition of The Second Philosophy. She doesn’t define it explicitly. Rather, she explores the principles via a series of historical clashes. First, how would the second philosopher (SP) respond to Descartes’ arguments in the Meditations? She then goes on to tackle radical skepticism, Hume, Kant, Carnap, Quine, and Putnam’s anti-realism in the voice of the SP.
More summary and analysis below the fold.
A little while ago, I wrote a chapter surveying the philosophy of psychology for Fritz Allhoff’s Philosophy of the Special Sciences. It obviously reflects my interests and is also somewhat partial. I somewhat traded breadth for a (somewhat) deeper treatment of the issues I was discussing. Some of you might be …
Tomorrow I’m leaving for two weeks in the UK. Among other things, I’ll be at a conference on Computation in Cognitive Science at King’s College, Cambridge. My paper for the conference (co-authored with Andrea Scarantino) is entitled “Computation vs. Information Processing: How They Are Different and Why It Matters.” It has just …
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