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The Self in the Age of Cognitive Science
The most excellent Rob Rupert has made his latest paper freely available. Abstract Philosophers of mind commonly draw a distinction between the personal level – the distinctive realm of conscious experience and reasoned deliberation – and the subpersonal level, the domain of mindless mechanism and brute cause and effect. Moreover, they tend to view cognitive…
Why Is Virtual Reality Interesting for Philosophers?
Thomas Metzinger in Frontiers in Robotics and AI. AIArtificial intelligenceCognitive scienceEpistemologyethicsmetaphysicspersonal identityphenomenologyPhilosophy of mindphilosophy of religionPolitical philosophyvirtual reality
The Propeller Experiment Controller
Latest (special) issue of JMB. Charles I. AbramsonChristopher A. VarnonCognitive sciencejournal of mind and behaviorPropeller Experiment Controller
Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind (Review)
Rick Grush’s review of Shaun’s Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Cognitive scienceEmbodied cognitive scienceenactivismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindrepresentationalismShaun Gallaghersituated cognition
Rob Haskell
Today marks the death of my chum Rob Haskell. With hindsight, so much of what Rob told me in his last two years (in person and telephonically) reveals just how profoundly hurt he was: a hurt perpetrated not just by departmental bullies but also by a cowardly lack of gumption in coming to his defence…
The Evolution of Computationalism
A terrific discussion of computationalism by the very excellent Marcin Miłkowski, freely available in Minds and Machines. [i]t is less misleading to think of computationalism as a diverse research tradition composed of multiple, historically variable computational theories of mind (or brain). By conflating the research tradition with one of the early theories, one could be tempted…
