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Same-Order Theories and the Failure of Phenomenal Intimacy

Perusing the new issue of Philosophical Studies that came out I came across Chad Kidd’s paper Phenomenal Consciousness with Infallible Self-Representation , which happens to be freely available on Phil Studies home page . The paper is interesting and...

Published Thu, Feb 03 2011 1:17 PM by Brains

Filed under: Consciousness

CFP: Church's Thesis: Logic, Mind and Nature

An interesting confrence on Church's Thesis, with excellent speakers, takes place in Krakow, Poland, on June, 3-5. See the conference website . Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 03 2011 8:37 AM by Brains

Filed under: Computation and Logic, conference, conferences

A Question about Mary

Hey Brainers, Eric's post the other day about conceivability arguments got me thinking about Jackson's (1982) thought experiment about Mary the color scientist--in particular, about a conversation with Justin Sytsma that I had at the PSA this...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 9:21 PM by Brains

CFP: More or Less: Varieties of Human Cortical Color Vision

A very interesting interdisciplinary conference plus workshop organized by Kathleen Akins and Brit Brogaard in Vancouver on August 4-7, 2011 . Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 01 2011 7:40 AM by Brains

Philosophers' Carnival #120

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Published Mon, Jan 31 2011 1:55 PM by Brains

Examples of successful conceivability arguments?

I've been reading over Chalmers' conceivability/possibility arguments against materialist theories of mind. For those that don't remember, his argument is: 1. We can conceive of zombies. 2. Conceivability implies logical possibility. 3. Therefore...

Published Fri, Jan 28 2011 1:03 PM by Brains

Call for Book Proposals: Studies in Brain and Mind

Studies in Brain and Mind is a book series published by Springer. It covers all areas in which philosophy and neuroscience intersect: philosophy of mind, philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of psychiatry, neurophilosophy,...

Published Fri, Jan 28 2011 8:26 AM by Brains

Papineau on the Rise of Physicalism

I just read David Papineau's excellent and provocative 2001 article, " The Rise of Physicalism ". He argues that physicalism is supported by the principle of the completeness of physics (sometimes known as the causal closure of the physical...

Published Thu, Jan 27 2011 8:26 AM by Brains

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