1. An epistemic puzzle

Epistemology / perception / Susanna Siegel: The Rationality of Perception
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On a traditional conception of the human mind, reasoning can be rational or irrational, but perception cannot. Perception is simply a source of new information, and cannot be assessed for rationality. I argue that this conception is wrong. Drawing on examples involving racism, emotion, self-defense law, and scientific theories, The Rationality …

Neuroethics Symposium: Special Issue on The Biology of Desire by Marc Lewis

Ethics / Free will / Neuroethics Symposia / Neuroscience
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It is my pleasure to introduce the latest in our series of symposia on papers from the journal Neuroethics. The focus of the current symposium is a forthcoming special issue of Neuroethics on Marc Lewis‘s book The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease (PublicAffairs, 2016). In his book, Lewis challenges the …

Letter of support for the Department of Philosophy in Zagreb

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The Department of Philosophy in the Centre of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, is under threat of closure — apparently as retribution after members of the department have successfully brought a plagiarism case against the Croatian minister of science and education. For some more information, visit here.

The philosopher Kati Farkas will address the senate of the University of Zagreb on behalf of the embattled philosophy department, and she has composed a Letter of Support which she plans to bring to the senate meeting. The letter is to be signed by philosophy faculty affiliated with higher education institutions worldwide.

To sign Prof. Farkas’s letter, visit https://goo.gl/forms/b6MtV3OUKFmIFcXm1. Please note that this is NOT the same as the petition that was originally announced at Daily Nous.

(Thanks to Beri Marusic for sharing this information.)

Experimental Philosophy Meets Developmental Psychology

Experimental Philosophy / Psychology
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Of all the many topics explored by experimental philosophers, the one that has received perhaps the most attention in the meta-philosophical literature is the issue of demographic effects. Work on this topic asks whether people’s intuitions about philosophical questions differ across demographic variables such as culture, gender and age. As many of you will …

The Autonomy of Psychology and Beyond

Philosophy of Mind / Philosophy of Science / Polger and Shapiro: The Multiple Realization Book
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In The Multiple Realization Book we articulate an account of multiple realization that is based on the idea that the “job description” for multiple realization is to be incompatible with brain-based theories of the mind and therefore to strongly favor functionalist and other realization-based theories. Multiple realization is supposed to …

Evidence and Modality

Philosophy of Mind / Philosophy of Science / Polger and Shapiro: The Multiple Realization Book
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In our last post of the week we will discuss some of the broader implications of our view of multiple realization. But first we want to put the arguments in The Multiple Realization Book into the context of our earlier individual and joint work, in part to make clear the …

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