Nick Shea, Institute of Philosophy, University of London I was delighted to be asked to write a commentary on the first of Ruth Millikan’s Brains Blog posts on her oeuvre. Having made important and influential contributions to many areas of philosophy of mind and language, I am especially pleased that …
Unicepts Ruth Millikan, University of Connecticut Proposed in Beyond Concepts; Unicepts, Language and Natural Information (Millikan 2017, Oxford UP) is that many of the roles traditionally thought of as played by concepts are played instead by “unicepts.” Supporting this is the claim that most kinds recognized in common life and …
This week on Brains, please join us for a discussion with Ruth Millikan. Millikan’s wide-ranging work has been deeply influential in Philosophy of Mind in the 20th and 21st centuries, and we are thrilled to feature some of her current work this week. We will have two posts from Millikan (Monday …
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Snowdon on Knowing One’s Own Experience By Tony Cheng Paul F. Snowdon passed away unexpectedly in summer 2022. The posts dedicating to our memories of him were written a while ago, and we are pleased that these pieces can finally appear after some delays. Personally, I first met Paul back …
Paul Snowdon on Animalism By Helen Steward I first came across Paul Snowdon’s thinking on animalism as a result of attending his lectures on the subject in Oxford in what I believe was probably the 1990s, though I have no reliable way of checking that date. Though Paul had been …
Snowdon on Personal Identity By Charles Jansen Seminars with Paul Snowdon would typically begin with a single argument, written in the middle of a whiteboard. Snowdon would unpick the argument premise by premise, disambiguating, clarifying and outlining how it departed from (or, less frequently, aligned with) what we might ordinarily …
