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Archive for the ‘Philosophy of Mind’ Category
Sense-Data, Perception, and Illusions
Posted in Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind on July 22, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Some philosophers- e.g. Frank Cameron Jackson, Howard Robinson- contend that the sense-data theory of perception is the only theory that can make proper sense of the term ‘illusion’. Take, for instance, two birds in a field on a sunny day. One bird, a cardinal, is perched atop a tree branch relatively close to our position; [...]
How Well Do We Know Ourselves?
Posted in Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology on July 27, 2007 | Comments Off
Eric Schwitzgebel (UC-Riverside) has an interesting discussion of introspection and self-knowledge at The Splintered Mind. It’s worth a look.
An Interview with Richard Swinburne
Posted in Interviews, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion on May 7, 2007 | No Comments »
… on philosophy of mind, compliments of The Sci Phi Show. Click on ‘Outcast 39′.
- Rico Vitz
An Interview with David Chalmers
Posted in Interviews, Philosophy of Mind on April 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
… is available here. Click on ‘Outcast #36′.
Thanks to The Brain Science Podcast for the tip.
- Rico Vitz
Conference on Color
Posted in Conferences, Philosophy of Mind on April 13, 2007 | No Comments »
… at FSU, Saturday, April 14th. Details available here.
- Rico Vitz
More on Buddhism
Posted in Buddhism, Ethics, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Mind on April 10, 2007 | No Comments »
… here and here, compliments of our friends at R-P-E.
There are also interesting discussions for students both of Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas” as well as of brain damage and moral reasoning.
- Rico Vitz
“The Emotion Machine”
Posted in Philosophy of Mind on March 30, 2007 | No Comments »
… a colloquium featuring Marvin Minsky (MIT) at the University of Central Florida, Monday, April 2, 2007; 2:00 - 3:15 P.M.
- Rico Vitz
Minding the Body
Posted in Aesthetics, Asian Philosophy, Conferences, News & Notes, Philosophy of Mind on March 28, 2007 | No Comments »
… the inaugural conference of the Center for Mind, Body, and Culture will take place March 29-30. Check out the site for details.
- Rico Vitz
An Interview with Richard Shusterman
Posted in Aesthetics, Asian Philosophy, Conferences, Continental Philosophy, Interviews, News & Notes, Philosophy of Mind on March 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Our good fortune continues. Today, we are very pleased to welcome Richard Shusterman (Florida Atlantic University) to our blog for a brief interview related to the opening of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture and its inaugural conference, which will take place this week.
FSPB: Richard, thank you for joining us. Congratulations to [...]
The Peculiar Phenomenology of Hallucination
Posted in Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind on March 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It seems to me that when hallucination is discussed in Phenomenology, it is generally in the context of perception. Hallucination might be considered a type of perception, but this is not very illuminating for a phenomenon that seems to be so apart from what we consider normal perception. In the phenomenological context of [...]
Freedom and Neurobiology
Posted in Action Theory, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Mind on March 7, 2007 | No Comments »
… a review and discussion of Searle’s new book is available at the GFP, as is an interesting discussion of Searle’s claim that “we cannot escape the presupposition of freewill.”
- Rico Vitz
USF Colloquium
Posted in Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, News & Notes, Philosophy of Mind, Political Theory on February 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Leslie Thiele will be speaking at USF on Friday, February 2nd.
(UPDATE 02/01: The title of Professor Thiele’s paper is “The Education of Eros: Aristotle and Neuroscience.” For more details, see comments.)
- Rico Vitz
The Moral Significance of Animal Cognition
Posted in Environmental Philosophy, Ethics, News & Notes, Philosophy of Mind on January 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Dr. Robert Jones (Stanford) will present his paper, “The Moral Significance of Animal Cognition,” at the University of North Florida on Friday, Jan. 26th. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact UNF’s Department of Philosophy.
- Rico Vitz
The Checkershadow Illusion
Posted in Early Modern Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology on January 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Brian Weatherson of Thoughts, Arguments, and Rants has an interesting discussion of the Checkershadow Illusion here. The accompanying Powerpoint presentation is helpful in clarifying the illusion … and it might be a useful tool for those teaching (or attending) classes concerning, e.g., external world skepticism, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, etc.
Josh Gert (FSU) has recently done some [...]