• Home

RSS News@FASTDOT

Recent Posts

  • Mechanism and Philosophy of Psychology
  • How Brain-to-Brain Interfaces Will Make Things Difficult for Us
  • The Pragmatic Use of Metaphor in Empirical Psychology
  • A Suspicious Science: The Uses of Psychology
  • Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Turning up the Hedonic Treadmill: Is It Morally Impermissible for Parents to Give Their Children a Luxurious Standard of Living?

RSS WordPress

RSS News@Fastdot

  • How To Increase the PHP Max Upload Size in cPanel®?
  • The Month in WordPress: September 2021
  • People of WordPress: Yordan Soares
  • Philosophy
Sidebar
Browse

Contribucions

  • Home

Emergence in the brain, Part II

Contributor February 24, 2023

But there’s a scenario where things get more interesting with emergence. Let’s consider here the possibility that in some (or possibly many) cases regions do not carry out well defined functions.  Instead, two or more regions working together instantiate the …

Read More

Emergence in the brain, Part I

Contributor February 23, 2023

If emergence of this type does happen in the brain, it will be very difficult to figure out how processes depend on functional circuits. In reality, of course there is no oracle, so what can be done? Empirically, neuroscience can …

Read More

Home village hopes ‘greatest Welsh thinker’ finally receives his dues

Contributor February 23, 2023

He continued: “It tells us a lot about our own psychology, our struggles with our own history, and how we regard ourselves as a people that he is so little celebrated. This may be partly about who we are conditioned …

Read More

Entangled Brains

Contributor February 22, 2023

The property of complexity is a reminder that systems behave in ways that are substantially more varied and nuanced than at first entertained. Small changes of input or perturbations to their state can lead to qualitatively different behaviors and outcomes. …

Read More

Announcement: Finalists of the 9th Annual National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics and Final Presentation

Contributor February 22, 2023

Undergraduate: Tanae Rao (Oxford): Why the Responsibility Gap is Not a Compelling Objection to Lethal Autonomous Weapons Leah O’Grady (Oxford): What is wrong with stating slurs? Thomas Long (University of Manchester): The Ambiguous Ethicality of Applause: Ethnography’s Uncomfortable Challenge to …

Read More

Who Gets to Be a Person?

Contributor February 21, 2023

Defining thick concepts is particularly tricky. Those definitions are not just judged for their descriptive plausibility but whether they imply acceptable moral practices. In the debate on personhood, philosophers have repeatedly drawn boundaries on the descriptive level that lead to …

Read More

Going through a hard time: Professor Lin, Cheng Hung and the development of analytic philosophy in Taiwan

Contributor February 20, 2023

Several years later, Professor Lin felt that he should pursue an overseas Ph.D. degree to catch up the recent development of the analytic philosophy and to improve his professional ability. He went to the US to study logic and philosophy …

Read More

Demoralizing Ethics

Contributor February 14, 2023

Another reason to avoid moral terminology in philosophical ethics is that morality functions through the emotions, especially that of anger, of which the primary moral species is blame. The emotions, though they may have some cognitive content, are passions, and …

Read More

Cognitive Science of Philosophy Symposium: Network Modeling

Contributor February 14, 2023

As Wu argues, however, it gives novel evidence for a claim that has often been difficult to underwrite: that marginalized groups might be epistemically superior in certain respects (the “inversion thesis”). Wu’s paper provides a clear proof-of-possibility of this claim. …

Read More

CFP on Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives on Machine Learning and Society:

Contributor February 13, 2023

Guest editors: Mirko Farina (Innopolis) & Witold Pedrycz (Alberta) This topical collection sets out to explore the broad applications of ML in Society. The objective of this collection is therefore to take our readers on a fascinating voyage of recent …

Read More

← 1 2 3 4 5 … 54 →