Look a dog in the eye and a conscious being looks back. A being that feels hunger, thirst, warmth, cold, fear, comfort, pleasure, pain, joy. No one can seriously doubt this. The same is true of any mammal. You cannot…
In a striking recent experiment, octopus expert Robyn Crook tried the same type of test on octopuses – and they passed too. Octopuses learned to avoid a chamber where they experienced a noxious stimulus (acetic acid on the skin) and…
Six of the seven protestors pled not-guilty and their case recently came to trial. At the trial the defendants, representing themselves, admitted their actions but claimed it was a “necessary” and “proportionate” response to the serious injury and death being…
This is the fourth in a series of posts about my recently published book, Forming Impressions: Expertise in Perception and Intuition (OUP, 2020). Intuition in Philosophy The negative experimental challenge to current philosophical method can be usefully organized into three…
Part 2 of Forming Impressions develops an epistemology of experiences that manifest expertise. My approach is first to discuss the epistemology of experience in general, and then to consider the epistemic impact acquiring expertise might have on experience. Presentational Conservatism…
Sri Sri Radha Damodar, Vrindavan Sri Radharaman, Vrindavan (4) Mother Ganga descended to Earth on this day. (11) Goddess Annapoorna Devi appeared on this day. Akshaya-tritiya is an important day in Vedic culture as any donation performed for the right…
The first observation is that the explanation does not work if intuitions must result from reflex-like processes that are fast, automatic, effortless, and opaque to introspection. This is the picture of intuition suggested by dual process theories of cognition. In…
Introduction The book divides into three parts. I’ll conclude this post by saying a bit about how I see the structural differences between expertise in forming impressions and expertise in performing actions. In the next post I’ll focus on the…
His appearance is on the amavasya (new moon) of the month of Vaisakha. Gadadhara was a few years younger then Nimai and during their childhood they would play together. Gadadhara Pandit served as Lord Gaura’s chief assistant during His Navadvipa-lila….
Join the session (up to 10 minutes early) | Read the paper Analog Computation and Representation Related: How to connect to Neural Mechanism Webinars We are excited about the next Neural Mechanisms webinar this Friday. As always, it is free….
So far, we have identified two points of potential disagreement – on whether we should have immunity passport in case where we can’t have some reassurance that herd immunity will be preserved, and on whether we should have immunity passports…
Call for Abstracts – MANCEPT 2021 Prudence and Politics Non-speaker/non-presenting attendees: £15 Academics: £45 Considerations of prudence also appear to be latent within certain forms of liberal political theory. For example, although John Rawls does not explicitly couch his project…
Job Description Equal Employment Opportunity Statement The Tulane Philosophy and English Departments in connection with the Cognitive Studies Program invite applications for a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor to start fall 2021. Teaching responsibilities will include expository science writing and one…
Lockdown has trashed businesses and made economies shrivel. But I wonder if its most lasting legacy will be ethical. It has eroded agency. It has made us less moral, less ourselves, and hence more manipulable. By Charles Foster The other…
