Burge on the Origins of Perception

Saturday I attended a workshop on the predicative structure of experience sponsored by the New York Consciousness Project, which is sponsored by the New York Institute of Philosophy . Speaking was Tyler Burge and Mark Johnston with commentary by Alex Byrne and Adam Pautz respectively. I may write a separate post on Johnston’s talk but [...]

Swamp Thing About Mary

On Friday I attended Pete Mandik’s Cogsci talk at CUNY. The talk was excellent; entertaining and with a spirited discussion of many interesting topics. This paper represents one of a two part project that Pete is pursuing that involves Swamp Mary. One project employs Swamp Mary against dualists while the other employs her in an [...]

Two Ways to (Not) Think About Unicorns

Listening back to the discussion Pete and I had, as well as my previous post on this stuff, and something occurred to me. There really are two different ways of thinking about the concept “unicorn”. One way is the way that I have been thinking about it ad that is as a regular natural kind [...]

Brown & Mandik on Philosophy TV

Here and after that you can see the 8-bit jam session that Pete and I had at my place right afterwards here!

cfp: 3rd Online Consciousness Conference

Please post and distribute widely; apologies for cross-posting. I am pleased to announce the call for papers for the third online consciousness conference. Invited speakers include, Kathleen Akins, Simon Fraiser University Paul Churchland, University of California San Diego Steven Harnad, University of South Hampton Jesse Prinz, The Graduate Center, CUNY Papers in any area of [...]