Chalmers on Books on Consciousness
David Chalmers has posted a helpful list of recent collections of articles on consciousness.
Peer review and bloggers
Quite recently, more researchers are proposing a way to identify serious blog posts on peer-reviewed research. The idea seems to have originated at Cognitive Daily, and there is already a website for the project called BPR3 (Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting). The plan is to aggregate serious commentaries on published …
A Note of Remembrance
In mid-August, we lost a brilliant and multifaceted philosopher-lawyer-scientist and a warm and fascinating human being, Susan Hurley. She died young and brimming with ideas. Her interests ranged from cognitive architecture to constitutional law and from enactive perception to political action. Her book titles illustrate only some of this diversity:Natural …
On Analytic vs. Continental Philosophy
The putative split between analytic and continental philosophy continues to exercise philosophers. It’s quite difficult to say what, if anything, divides them. It’s so difficult that some philosophers, led by Brian Leiter, argue that there is no longer (if there ever was) any substantive or methodological difference between the two. …
What Does (Husserlian) Phenomenology Have to Do with Psychology and Neuroscience?
Not much, I would think. Psychology and neuroscience are empirical, scientific disciplines. Phenomenology (as conceived by Husserl) is an anti-naturalistic, a priori style of theorizing about consciousness. Well, who cares? Isn’t phenomenology “philosophically defunct” anyway? (Brian Leiter’s words in his Introduction to The Future of Philosophy, OUP, 2004.) In fact, …
My Placement Record
My department‘s website does not give much information on our record in placing our M.A. students into philosophy Ph.D. programs. I can at least speak for myself for the benefit of prospective M.A. students in my area (phil. of mind, psychology, neuroscience, computation). During my first two years at the University of …
Palms Up … The Origin of Human Language?
Well, that may be too strong, but going palm up still sounds like a potentially important piece of the puzzle of the evolution of primate communication. In today’s NY Times.