Category: Philosophy

The success of such regulatory efforts will depend on developing a relationship of trust between citizen scientists and regulators. In order to gain the trust of citizen scientists it is crucial that regulators clearly communicate why the important moral justifications …

It should be noted that these conditions can conflict, necessitating trade-offs. In particular, more effective interventions for achieving a public health goals will often involve more significant restrictions of individual liberty. For this reason, some frameworks eschew reference to the …

This leads to a second means of defense.  Even when we are deeply immersed in a fiction, we do not usually respond to the fiction just as we would were the events non-fictional.  Jonathan’s own careful arguments to this effect …

Alon’s first set of questions concerns what he calls “spontaneous imaginative projects.”  Intuitively, these are imaginings that seem to just pop into our heads from out of nowhere and to bear little if any bearing on what we are doing …

Strangely it might seem, I agree with Peter. In my own taxonomy (see Arcangeli 2018 and 2020) I have identified two different classes of mental phenomena, which (misleadingly, I think) are lumped together under the umbrella “imagination”: imagination as a …

Dretske, F. (2002). A Recipe for Thought. In D. Chalmers (Ed.), Philosophy of Mind:  Classical and Contemporary Readings (pp. 491-499). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Some may worry that the reductive approach I recommend is dismissive, deflationary, or even eliminative of …

19 February 202115-17 Greenwhich Mean Time(Convert to your local time here) Tracers in neuroscience: Causation, constraints, and connectivity Lauren Ross (University of California, Irvine) Related: How to connect to Neural Mechanism Webinars Join the session (up to 10 minutes early) …

First interview in the new  Thinking Out Loud series on ‘Animals and Pandemics’: Katrien Devolder in conversation with Jeff Sebo, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU, on how our treatment of animals increases the risk of future pandemics arising, and …