Wilfrid Sellars was one of the most important philosophers of mind in the 20th Century. I just discovered that the complete collection of his unpublished papers and correspondence is available at the Archive of Scientific Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. The collection was created by Pitt archivist Lance Lugar, who …
A nice article from today’s NY Times.
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By Adam Leonard The ability of fMRI scans to detect which modules of the brain are active during cognitive processes provides a crude, but nonetheless revealing window into how we “think”: it allows testing whether some of our gross assumptions are true or not. For example, a widely referenced July …
It amazes me how many philosophy papers, even by young philosophers, appeal to “psychological laws”. For instance, they may discuss whether psychological laws are reducible to more fundamental laws, or whether they are intentional, or whathaveyou. This way of talking seems to presuppose that psychologists explain behavior in terms of laws.Where do they …
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