Tag: mind
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Minds, Models, MRIs, and Meaning
“AI Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading” is how The New York Times puts it.
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Understanding the Brain
“Maybe human brains aren’t equipped to understand themselves.”
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New: Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
The International Journal of Machine Consciousness, which ceased publication in 2014, is being reborn as the Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness.
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New Journal: Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
A new academic journal, Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) will focus on “the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.”
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A Parody Issue of Mind… from 118 Years Ago (Updated)
Some people worry that philosophers keep asking the same questions over and over again. If you think that’s bad, you may be upset to…
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Philosophical Implications of New Thought-Imaging Technology
The CBC reports on recent work on thought-imaging technology, the use and development of which would raise various questions in ethics, and which would possibly be relevant…
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A Remembrance of Jerry Fodor, 1935-2017 (guest post by Georges Rey)
The following is an obituary for philosopher Jerry Fodor, who died earlier this week, by Georges Rey, professor of philosophy at the University of…
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New Essay Prize For Early Career Philosophers
The philosophy journal Mind, which was established in 1876 and has long served as a prominent venue for analytic philosophy, and which recently broadened its scope to…
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The Relationship Between The Philosophy And The Science Of The Mind
A persistent challenge to philosophy is whether it is rendered obsolete by science. Consider this exchange on the philosophy of mind: Cognitive scientists are…
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Interdisciplinarity and Marginalization in Philosophy
When asked whether some of the work in experimental philosophy would be better characterized as psychology, Joshua Knobe (Yale) tells Pendaran Roberts (Warwick): First…
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Phones, Minds, States, and Corporations
Matthew Noah Smith (Leeds) has an article at Slate bringing together philosophy of mind and political philosophy to discuss the United States government’s attempts to…
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Projects Funded by New Directions in the Study of Mind
New Directions in the Study of Mind, a project headed by Tim Crane (Cambridge) and funded primarily with a £1.25 million grant from the Templeton Foundation,…
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Moratorium and New Editors at Mind
Thomas Baldwin (York), the current editor of Mind, writes that the journal will cease accepting new submissions for several months, starting in July, so…
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Turing Test Passed, But Because of Grade Inflation?
A computer has apparently passed a version of the Turing Test. Eugene Goostman seems like a typical 13-year-old Ukrainian boy — at least, that’s…
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Now That I’ve Got Your Attention…
We can ask, what is attention, anyway? The folks over at Brains, the group blog on the philosophy and science of minds, are currently…
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Very Bad Wizards
Very Bad Wizards is a series of fun and fascinating podcast conversations on morality and related issues between philosopher Tamler Sommers (Houston) and psychologist David Pizarro…