Special Issue of Cognitive Systems Research Edited by Leslie Marsh (Medical School, University of British Columbia) and Philip Robbins (Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri) A Confluence of Interest It’s been twenty-five years or so since Gazzaniga’s (1985) empirically motivated work that understood the brain as a kind of hermeneutic device or “interpreter” that evolved in…
Dave Chalmers featured in Monolith Magazine. ChalmersconsciousnessDavid ChalmersdualismExtended MindExternalismMindPhilosophy of mindPhysicalism
Here is a forthcoming paper from the VERY excellent Brie Gertler. Since the work of Burge, Davidson, Kripke, and Putnam in the 1970’s, philosophers of language and mind have engaged in extensive debate over the following question: Do mental content properties—such as thinking that water quenches thirst—supervene on properties intrinsic to the thinker? To answer affirmatively…
Coming soon (an unlikely cover for an OUP book). AttentionCognitive scienceconsciousnessJesse PrinzMind–body problemneurosciencePerceptionPhilosophyPhilosophy of mind
According to the author a new book can be expected. In this ever crowded genre I do like the title. Embodied cognitionExtended MindMindPeripheral nervous systemPhilosophyPhilosophy of mindShaun Gallagher
Two papers of note from the special issue “The Body Represented/Embodied Representation” of Review of Philosophy and Psychology and one from the current issue: A Moderate Approach to Embodied Cognitive Science – Alvin Goldman Embodying the Mind and Representing the Body – Adrian John Tetteh Alsmith and Frédérique de Vignemont In Defense of Phenomenological Approaches to Social Cognition:…
This from PCS ClarkCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessConsciousness StudiesDavid ChalmersExtended MindFunctional magnetic resonance imagingPhilosophyPhilosophy of mind
Here’s plug for a collection of EM papers from about three years ago The Extended Mind by Mark Rowlands Abstract & Keywords Persons and the Extended-Mind Thesis by Lynne Rudder Baker Abstract & Keywords Minds, Intrinsic Properties, and Madhyamaka Buddhism by Teed Rockwell Abstract & Keywords Empathy and the Extended Mind by Joel W. Krueger Abstract & Keywords Quintuple…
“David Armstrong has suggested (lightly) that the strong sunlight and harsh brown landscape of Australia force reality upon us.” Cited in Devitt’s Realism and Truth, p. x It’s great to see that DMA is still with us, as is “Jack” Smart, both grandees of OZ philosophy. The number of top-notch philosophers that OZ has produced relative…
Here’s a tough review of Paul’s latest outing Plato’s Camera: How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals. A final striking fact about Churchland’s book is that it seems almost wholly divorced from empirical psychology. Remarkably, indeed, in a book that advances a theory of the mind that is supposed to be empirically supported,…
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