John Heil has been arguing for a while (cf. his book From an Ontological Point of View, OUP, 2003) that an important source of problems in the metaphysics of mind (e.g., about mental causation) is the tacit though widespread endorsement of the following principle [I am simplifying Heil’s formulations a …
John Sutton @ Macquarie just passed on the following information, which some of you may not know of and to whom it will be of interest: Max Coltheart has written a heavy critique of imaging (Max Coltheart, ‘What has functional neuroimaging told us about the mind (so far)?’, Cortex 42 …
On my long, long list of “Things I Don’t Really Have Time to Think About But Wish I Did” is the following simple question: Does dualism make a difference to one’s overall view of the mind? Since some might assume that the obvious answer to the question is an obvious …
The following cfp might be of interest to the brain community: OBJECTS and SOUND PERCEPTION, Issue 7 (2007) of the EUROPEAN REVIEW of PHILOSOPHY), eds. Nicolas J. Bullot and Paul Egré, deadline: Dec. 1, guest authors: Stephen Davies, Michael Kubovy, Mohan Matthen (more info on the website). The ERP is now …
Nothing entirely new but the most convincing case I’ve seen of someonewho can “see” with echolocation. The question for phil mind of courseis whether he has some information about what it is like to be a bat.
Just a quick post to encourage people to submit papers to the SSPP conference, April 5-7th 2007, in Atlanta (deadline Nov. 15th). Everyone knows how good the SPP conference is, but I think folks are less aware of the recent rejuvenation of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
There is a new and interesting thread at Leiter Reports on for profit vs. online philosophy journals.
