Turing Pumpkin
Corey Maley found this nice Halloween tribute to a great man.
PSA 2006
The 2006 Philosophy of Science Association Meeting is about to take place, on November 2-5 at the Hyatt Regenecy Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia. There are several interesting talks and sessions on the philosophy of psychology and neuroscience, including a symposium entitled “Can Introspective Reports be Scientific Evidence?” with Anna …
Realization Conference
An interesting conference on realization, organized by Julie Yoo, recently took place at Lafayette College. See here for more details.
What Neuroscientists Do
Impressions from the 2006 Society for Neuroscience Meeting The 2006 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) took place here in Atlanta last Saturday to Wednesday. As a “neurophilosopher” I felt I couldn’t pass up this opportunity to attend, so I paid my $145 for membership in SfN so I …
First-person Data vs. Sense Data
David Chalmers helpfully pointed out that the first relevant use of “first-person data” appears to be due to Herbert Feigl (in “The ‘Mental’ and the ‘Physical’”, 1958). This brings up what seems to me a confusion in the current literature between first-person data as a kind of scientific data and …
First-person Data
The expression “first-person data” has become quite common in the consciousness studied literature, where it is used to refer to data about conscious experience, sometimes with the implication that these data are obtained only through introspection, and sometimes with the further implication that these are private data (as opposed to …
PMS WIPS 003 is…
…here.