30th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY July 23-26, 2008 Washington DC The Cognitive Science Society wishes it to be known that the deadline for Member Abstract submissions for CogSci 2008 is February 1, the same as all other submission categories. Unlike past practice there will not be an April/May submission opportunity this year.…
With the passing of Peter Lipton, who formulated and coined the term “inference to the best explanation“(IBE) I was reminded that I once “controversially” (at least to some, though not philosophers of history) deployed the term in a paper to do with the philosophy of history. When I spoke to Peter about it, he couldn’t see any…
This posting refers to this posting. Excerpt from my Polybius essay. Oakeshott (1983: 94) characteristically offers a brilliant analysis of the problem which he calls the ‘dry wall theory’. Keeping in mind Pedach’s and Walbank’s account of historical development, Oakeshott believes that though historical events are not themselves contingent, they are related to one another contingently.…
Volume 4, issue 2, a special issue of EPISTEME is now available. Guest Editor: David Coady Contents and Abstracts available here.
Review by Roy Sugarman of Social Neuroscience: Integrating Biological and Psychological Explanations of Social Behavior.
The Functionalist’s Dilemma George Lakoff reviews Ray Jackendorf’s Language, Consciousness, Culture: Essays on Mental Structure. Constructing Cognition Ethan Remmel reviews Katherine Nelson’s Young Minds in Social Worlds: Experience, Meaning, and Memory.
Judging from the discussion on Leiter Reports the merits of McGinn’s review is sub judice. To be fair, there is a great deal of pap out there not all coming to the attention of first order minds like McGinn. In a footnote to the review, McGinn writes: The review that appears here is not as I originally wrote…
Here is is the uncorrected proof of my review of Mike Wheeler’s excellent book.
A highly personalized and philosophical spat reaches the mainstream. I have some thoughts on the matter.
This from today’s Jerusalem Post. What’s particularly interesting is that were a biological computer a real possibility, this would vindicate the extended mind thesis. Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob of TAU’s faculty of exact sciences and his research assistant Dr. Itay Baruchi were chosen for their innovative work in brain research and their success in creating a memory-…
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