Philosophy Carnival #41
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Consciousness and the Brainstem
I am under the impression that philosophers who talk about consciousness by and large focus on state consciousness and neglect creature consciousness, perhaps because they think that creature consciousness reduces to (is analyzable in terms of) state consciousness, or at any rate state consciousness is the ontologically more fundamental notion. …
Philosophy Journal Wiki
Doug Portmore had the brilliant idea of starting a Philosophy Journal Wiki, where we can all share information about the editorial practices of philosophy journals. I encourage you to go there and add information about your experience with the various journals.Quoting from PEA Soup <https://peasoup.typepad.com/peasoup/2007/01/a_wiki_on_philo.html> : “Inspired by the Philosophy …
Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2007, Call for Paper
The call for paper for the 2007 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology is now out (here). The deadline is March, 1.
Journal Copyright
In a message to the philosophy listserv PHILOSOP, Aaron Sloman wrote the following: More philosophers should put their papers online: not everyone has access to printed versions — so they are often useless for potential readers. I always cross out restrictive paragraphs on journal copyright forms and so far no …
Cognitive Economy
Elisabetta Lalumera posted a comment with an interesting question:“What is cognitive economy? Sometimes philosophers and psychologists evaluate proposals on the graounds that they fare well/bad at cognitive economy (e.g. on-the-fly concept views, like Barsalou’s, would avoid the storage cost of concepts in semantic memory, etc.).”“Any suggestion about what to look …
NA-CAP@LOYOLA 2007
THE ANNUAL NORTH AMERICAN MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR
COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY
July 26th – 28th, 2007
Call for Proposals…