The other day I was procrastinating on preparing for class, so I went over to Chalmers’s MindPapers. It didn’t take all that long before I did a search on “Aizawa” and found a few papers. I also noted that most were not cited. That reminded me of a discussion not …
As far as I know, the modern debate ab out folk psychology begins with Wilfrid Sellars’s view that folk psychology is a proto-scientific theory. For a while, the whole debate was over whether such a theory was mostly correct or incorrect, reducible or irreducible to lower-level theories. Then in the …
Last month, at Shaun Gallagher’s Cognition: Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, Extended conference, Fred Adams and I met with some criticism of our views on extended cognition. Andy Clark, Richard Menary, and Pierre Steiner, among others, were allied against us. Finally, after six years, however, Fred and I are getting our second …
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Apparently human females go into heat, contrary to a common assumption. The evidence is that professional lap dancers receive significantly more tips during the phase following ovulation, i.e., when they are fertile. (From an article in the last issue of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.)
Neuroethics is now accepting submissions. (More information at Experimental Philosophy.)
2nd CFP: e-Learning in Dialogue: Innovative Teaching and Learning in Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies.
* The Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies (PRS) is organising an international two-day conference, ‘e-Learning in Dialogue: Innovative Teaching and Learning in Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies’ to be held in York on May 14th-15th 2008…
