Jeffrey King’s Book Defending Structured Propositions
Jeffrey King has a new book out, defending structured propositions as a theory of content. Harry Deutsch has a “harsh” (his word) review of it at NDPR.
Call for Paper 2: Special Issue on Experimental Philosophy
Let me remind you that the European Review of Philosophy is editing a special issue on psychology and experimental philosophy (editors: Joshua Knobe, Tania Lombrozo and myself). Our guest authors are D. Osherson (Princeton), Sean Kelly (Harvard), and John Darley and Geoffrey Goodwin (Princeton). The deadline is September 1, 2008 and more …
Taylor’s Stroke
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor talks about her experiences having a stroke.
SPP 2008
Announcing the 34th annual meeting of the Society forPhilosophy and PsychologyJune 26-29, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PARegistration is now open; deadline Thursday, June 5 —12:00pm ESTNote that early registration is suggested, as the reservedhotel block is likely to fill quickly.https://www.ircs.upenn.edu/spp/The 2008 conference will feature presentations by:George Ainslie, Michael L. Anderson, …
Philosophers’ Carnival #69
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The Evolutionary Cost of Learning
An interesting NY Times article on the tradeoff between being better learners and having better instincts.There is also a nice one on ordinary people’s magical thinking.
Computation vs. Information Processing
Since the cognitivist revolution around the 1950s, it’s become commonplace that cognition involves computation/information processing. The two terms are generally used more or less interchangeably.But it seems to me that “computation” and “information processing” mean two clearly distinct things. Paradigmatically, computation is the processing of digits according to appropriate rules, …