Philosophers who wish to challenge the multiple realization of psychological properties sometimes suggest that it is more likely that a more general property, such as being in pain, is multiply realized than it is that a more specific property (of that general kind), such as human pain, is multiply …
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William Ramsey, Representation Reconsidered, CUP, 2007.This is the most up to date and systematic discussion of representation that I know of. It distinguishes four notions of representation and discusses their pros and cons, carefully and often insightfully. That’s enough to make it a useful book.Needless to say, there is more to …
The title of this post is my favorite quote from J. Heil, From An Ontological Point of View, OUP, 2003 (from p. 248).Heil’s point is that “The zombie possibility turns on substantive philosophical theses concerning properties, powers, and laws of nature. I have argued at length, and on independent grounds, against these …
The program of the European Congress of Analytical Philosophy is here. There are some interesting papers for readers of Brains, for example Stanisław Krajewski will present his short argument against all Lucas- and Penrose-style arguments. I wrote a protocol of his habilitation colloquium back in 2004 (or earlier) – he …
The preliminary program of the 2008 Philosophy of Science Association Meeting is out. The meeting will take place on November 6–8, 2008, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There will be many talks on the sciences of minds and brains, including a symposium I organized, on “Neural Computation” (other participants: Carl Craver, Oron Shagrir, and Jackie …
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 …
