DSPNW at the Central APA this Week

Railton’s primary concern is not the ‘superintelligence’ that could vastly outperform humans and, as some have suggested, threaten human existence as a whole. Rather, Railton focuses on what we are already confronted with today, namely partially intelligent systems that increasingly…

I would feel uncomfortable marking Liz Truss’s homework in public like this, except that she was never really trying to understand Foucault. In fact, on the right, it is a badge of honour not to understand or care about these…

Philosophy is a rational, and hence a fundamentally general and universal, enterprise. When you think about a particular question – such as, say, whether doctors, in the case of certain interventions, should seek consent from patients – you might end…

WORKSHOP THEMES:• Philosophy of Neuroscience Varia• History of Philosophy of Neuroscience (in celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of thepublication of Patricia Churchland’s Neurophilosophy, MIT Press, 1986) Full CFA: Abstracts: 750 words, due July 1, 2021. MARK YOUR CALENDARS/FIRST CALL FOR…

Announcing the “Neurorights in Chile: The Philosophical Debate” about the Chilean Senate’s Constitutional Reform Bill (Bulletin 13.827-19) and the Neuroprotection Bill of Law (Bulletin 13.828-19) that introduce five key “neurorights”: The Right to Personal Identity, The Right to Free-Will, The…

In­tro­duc­tion Note that bi­o­log­i­cal nat­u­ral­ism does not posit that con­scious­ness can only be re­alized in bi­o­log­i­cal sys­tems. In­deed, ar­ti­fi­cial hearts are not made of or­gan­ic tis­sue, and air­planes do not have feath­ers, or for that mat­ter even flap their wings….