A recent post over at Cranky Philosopher argues that it isn’t. His post opens with: The thesis of this post is that there are non-intentional mental states. To establish this thesis all I need is one good example. So consider the felt pain that ensues when I plunge my hand …
In the last few days, Brains has received a lot of visitors from the Netherlands. Depending on the time of the day, they have been the largest group of visitors by country. Welcome, guys! This can’t be a coincidence. If any of you kind readers has an explanation for this phenomenon, please let us know …
It’s out and it’s our chance to read C.B. Martin’s views about the mind in a comprehensive and systematic form. We are indebted to John Heil, without whose editorial work this book would not exist. I look forward to reading it (when I find the time). If anyone has read it and has comments, …
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What follows are some excerpts from a manuscript on the PCC (psychological correlates of consciousness) that I’ve been working on for a while, which will perhaps never see the light of
day. Philosophers, feel free to have a field day with my naive ideas.
Note I’m not sure which of the ideas are mine and which I stole from others. Of the inspirations I remember, two stick out. One, Gregory suggested that qualia function as a ‘tag for the present’ (see
his paper on this here), and Trehub has also suggested similar ideas in the domain of space …
I just discovered Scholarpedia, yet another effort at a open access online encyclopedia, to be dynamically updated. This one is written by top experts. Or at least, they hope it will be. They are starting by trying to get entries in the field of computational neuroscience, dynamical systems, and computational intelligence, …
E. Machery, T. Lombrozo & J. Knobe (eds.)European Review of Philosophy, 9 (2009) Submission deadline: 1 September 2008https://www.erp-review.org/cfp9.php GUEST AUTHORS————-John DARLEY and Geoffrey GOODWIN, Princeton UniversitySean KELLY, Harvard UniversityDan OSHERSON, Princeton University CALL FOR PAPERS————–Over the last decade, philosophers have started using experimental and quasi-experimental methods to obtain data that are relevant for …
