A few weeks ago, I wrote a comment on which philosophy journals are considered best. Brit Brogaard has reminded me that there is a useful post with commentaries at Leiter Reports on which journals are well behaved and which aren’t.
I’m out of town until the end of the month.
Last weekend I was at the Central APA in Chicago. Here are some events I attended that may be of interest to philosophers of mind:Henry Jackman, in “Fodor on Concepts and Modes of Presentation,” argued that Fodor’s treatment of the publicity constraint on concepts is available to a certain kind …
Last Saturday, in his Central APA commentary, Rick Grush raised this question and suggested it is the most fundamental question in the philosophy of mind. He also suggested that if you don’t understand this question and its importance you are missing something.I must be slow because I don’t think I …
This is an old matter of debate in neuroscience, going back to the 1940s. The question has never been properly resolved. In my opinion, the question has never even been properly formulated.A recent study in Nature provides evidence that “in some sensory organs and invertebrate systems, neurons can also communicate …
The first ever Online Philosophy Conference (OPC 2006) has begun here. There are seven papers with commentary posted for this week, to be followed by 8-9 papers per week the next three weeks. Anyone can read the papers and post comments. It’s a great opportunity, especially for students and other …
A widespread assumption in the literature on concepts is that concepts form a unified, or singular, natural kind, as opposed to a set of different natural kinds. That is, advocates of different accounts disagree on which kind of thing constitutes concepts, but they agree that there is only one such …
