- The famous conceivability argument about consciousness relied on a particular intuition. A new paper finds that this intuition is not widely shared among non-philosophers. Philosophers David Chalmers, Michelle Liu, Keith Frankish, and Edouard Machery weigh in and the authors of the paper reply. https://philosophyofbrains.com/2021/09/21/symposium-on-fischer-sytsmas-zombie-intuitions.aspx 14 comments philosophy
- Neurotypical subjective experience is caused by a hippocampal simulation https://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/05/01/neurotypical-subjective-experience-is-caused-by-a-hippocampal-simulation.aspx 26 comments philosophy
- Philosophers ought—morally—to make more of their academic presentations remotely accessible (insofar as accessibility, diversity, inclusivity, and sustainability actually matter). https://philosophyofbrains.com/2021/03/09/not-just-online-conferences-byrd-nick.aspx 10 comments philosophy
- How the brain mechanisms are similar to, but not identical to computers'. https://philosophyofbrains.com/2021/03/01/now-featuring.aspx 5 comments philosophy
- How adversarial collaborations can provide a better test of philosophers' claims and views. https://philosophyofbrains.com/2021/02/02/cognitive-science-of-philosophy-symposium-adversarial-collaboration.aspx 3 comments philosophy
- Modeling the brain as a computer can be informative, even if it is—strictly speaking—false. https://philosophyofbrains.com/2021/01/19/mazviita-chirimuuta-your-brain-is-like-a-computer-function-analogy-simplification.aspx 18 comments philosophy
- Irrational beliefs can have benefits that make then epistemically innocent. https://philosophyofbrains.com/2020/10/12/epistemic-innocence-lisa-bortolotti.aspx 15 comments philosophy
- Dr. Jamie Watson lays out a sociological account of expertise according to which expertise is obtained via “social acquisition of tacit knowledge" and "integrat[ion] into the way [experts] talk and think". Then he exposes some of its limitations. You can find his new account of expertise tomorrow! https://philosophyofbrains.com/2020/09/17/expertise-and-society.aspx 2 comments cogsci
- The 2020 Lakatos Award for the Philosophy of Science goes to Nicholas Shea for their (free!) book 'Representation In Cognitive Science' (Oxford University Press) https://philosophyofbrains.com/2020/07/03/lakatos-award-2020-nicholas-sheas-open-access-representation-in-cognitive-science.aspx 5 comments philosophy
- We learn not just practical competences but also norms, rituals, and beliefs from our cultural group(s), primarily through mind-reading. Philosopher Emiliano Loria is blogging about this (hypo)thesis from their FREE social epistemology and philosophy of mind book until Friday! https://philosophyofbrains.com/category/books/emiliano-loria-learning-through-others 3 comments philosophy
- The Scientific Case For Free Will: a week of blog posts from Christian List (London School of Economics) http://philosophyofbrains.com/category/books/christian-list-why-free-will-is-real 27 comments philosophy
- The Unclaimed Theory of Consciousness http://philosophyofbrains.com/2019/07/19/the-unclaimed-theory-of-consciousness.aspx 51 comments philosophy
- This week, Michael Strevens talks about his 2019 book in which he argues that armchair philosophy cannot provide full conceptual analysis, but it can be a starting point for exploring the nature of philosophical concepts. http://philosophyofbrains.com/category/books/michael-strevens-thinking-off-your-feet 79 comments philosophy
- On whether there's a single concept of well-being http://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/12/04/1-single-concept-well.aspx 7 comments philosophy
- Chauncey Maher on the philosophy of mind and its implications for plants http://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/02/19/do-plants-have-minds.aspx 59 comments philosophy
- How can we measure implicit bias? Researchers weigh in after recent controversy. http://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/01/17/how-can-we-measure-implicit-bias-a-brains-blog-roundtable.aspx 11 comments cogsci
- "Perspectivalism does not imply relativism. Every statement is indeed made from a perspective, but relativism does not follow." - John Searle defends objective truth http://philosophyofbrains.com/2016/11/04/iai-philofbrains-after-the-end-of-truth.aspx 3 comments philosophy
- Is the mind just an accident of the universe? | A precise, short, and intelligible article about the current state of panpsychism in academic philosophy and neuroscience. http://philosophyofbrains.com/2016/10/26/is-the-mind-just-an-accident-of-the-universe.aspx 381 comments philosophy
- How many types of phenomenology are there? [Philosophy of Mind] http://philosophyofbrains.com/2015/05/10/phenomenological-utopia.aspx 13 comments philosophy
- Implicit bias and moral responsibility: assessing responsibility http://philosophyofbrains.com/2015/04/15/implicit-bias-and-moral-responsibility-assessing-responsibility.aspx 3 comments philosophy
- My friend just shared his work, and although I don't understand it, I thought you people might! http://philosophyofbrains.com/2015/02/23/symposium-on-aaron-norby-uncertainty-without-all-the-doubt-mind-language-30-1-70-94.aspx 18 comments philosophy
- Do Women Have Different Philosophical Intuitions than Men? http://philosophyofbrains.com/2013/07/15/do-women-have-different-philosophical-intuitions-than-men-responding-to-buckwalter-and-stich.aspx 65 comments philosophy
- Against the Afterlife: The Argument from the Neural Localization of Mental Functions http://philosophyofbrains.com/2011/07/11/against-afterlife.aspx 3 comments philosophy
- The demise of "cognitive science"? http://philosophyofbrains.com/2010/08/26/the-demise-of-cognitive-science.aspx 12 comments cogsci