Philosophy Carnival #40
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Special Eurobarometer 224 “Europeans, Science and Technology”
I find this fascinating: In the survey, a quiz was presented to respondents in order to test the knowledge onscience and technology. The test subjects were citizens of EU. https://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_224_report_en.pdfsee especially pages 41-44Results of this quiz show that for most statements a majority of citizens in theEuropean Union answered correctly, …
Consciousness and X-Phi WIPS
A couple of related papers on consciousness and experiemental philosophy are being hosted at Brain Hammer as part of the Philosophy of Mind and Science Works in Progress Sessions (PMS WIPS): Posted Dec 15 is “Intuitions about Consciousness: Experimental Studies” by Joshua Knobe and Jesse Prinz (University of North Carolina …
Feedback on Graduate Students’ Work
When I was in graduate school, I remember how hard it was to get good feedback on my dissertation work. My advisor was great, but it was difficult to get feedback from others. I tried to send my work to other experts outside my department, and some of them were …
Doing without Concepts, Chapter 2
I open a thread for eventual comments on Chapter 2. Comments can of course be sent to me by e-mail. Thanks for those of you who read the chapter and commented on it. Abstract In Chapter 2, I distinguish two meanings of the term “concept” in philosophy—concepts as capacities …
Gelertner, Kurzweil, and Copeland Video
Corey Maley sent me “a link to a webcast of a debate between David Gelerntner and Ray Kurzweil on machine consciousness. Perhaps a bit more interesting is a talk by Jack Copeland on Turing’s contribution to codebreaking and to the development of AI (which starts at about the 1 hour 45 minute mark).”
Tend and Befriend
Someone sent me an article on a model of female response to stress that was developed in recent years by Shelley Taylor, a social psychologist at UCLA. Since I was unaware of this model and found it interesting, I thought I would share. Here is how the article begins: Move …