On November 29 and 30, I attended the workshop on Modeling, Simulation and Computational Science organized by Anna-Mari Rusanen and Tarja Knuuttila in Helsinki, Finland. I found it excellent. There were philosophers, physicists, and cognitive scientists talking to one another about computational models and computational explanations. I felt people were genuinely …
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Citizendium is a project for a more sophisticated version of Wikipedia. It seems to be a worthwhile cause, but it requires the volunteer effort of specialists. Below is an email circulated by Larry Sanger, who is behind the Citizendium effort. I’d be interested in hearing your opinions about the feasibility of such a project.—
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Pretty cool stuff.
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 …
