Philosophers’ Carnival #77
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SSPP CFP – Reminder
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, …
Announcing Consciousness Online
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 …
Experimental Philosophy and Concepts
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 …
Philosophers’ Carnival #76
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Why Multiple Realization Arguments don’t Refute Physicalism
On a side note, I just found out that a recent paper of mine partially reduplicates an argument made by Gualtiero in one of his papers (with some differences in emphasis). Nice.At anyrate, I have been thinking about multiple realization. Now, whether these kinds of arguments refute any of the …
The Ambiguity of “Connectionism”
The standard pop story about connectionism in philosophical circles goes somewhat as follows: connectionism is an alternative to computationalism, or at least to classical computationalism, that emerged in the 1980s. This story is largely a myth due in part to the ambiguity of the term “connectionism”.“Connectionism” has come to mean several different …