Wrapping up: the experience of Neural Mechanisms Online is suggestive that long-term online events can provide a scaffold for community-building. And they can do so with relatively low costs. Limitations Of Online Events? Webinars are our most popular format. Our recipe is…
Written by Ed Lamb, St. Anne’s College This brings us onto the second difference, which is an epistemic one. Many of our objections to suicide revolve around the fact that the agent cannot know that their life will not improve. Even…
Honourable Mention: Jules Desai: Is there a moral difference between Corpses biological and artificial? Runner Up: Tanae Rao: Why, if at all, is it unethical for universities to prioritise applicants related to their alumni Undergraduate Category Please join us in…
Audio and video recordings of David Lyreskog’s online St Cross Seminar (25 February 2021) are now available. Abstract: It is no exaggeration that the philosophical and ethical dimensions of age-related cognitive decline and dementia have been discussed for millennia, nor…
Overall, there are pros and cons to a fully online conference, for sure. In-person meetings provide forms of interaction that are difficult to duplicate online. But our main takeaway is that the virtual format worked surprisingly better than we expected,…
Trappes, R., Cohnitz, D., Pâslaru, V., Perkins, T. J., & Teymoori, A. (2020). The Online Alternative: Sustainability, Justice, And Conferencing In Philosophy. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 16(2), 145–171. DOI: 10.31820/ejap.16.2.7 The Advantages Of Online Events (Are Well-Known) Proctor, K….
If you’re interested, you can read it here. How do we find out what really matters in life? One way might be to ask those who are dying. They might occupy a perspective that allows them to see better what’s…
The mainly positive experiences of attendees indicate that online conferences are a good alternative to in-person events. But online venues lacked some of the much-desired social environment for networking. We consequently called for the continued development of ways to effectively…
Much cognitive processing is unconscious, but some is conscious. By ‘consciousness,’ I mean phenomenal consciousness, conscious experience, what it’s like to be someone, or qualia. The relation between consciousness, computation, and cognition is a very difficult question. A second point…
Fourth, neural representations are structural representations—that is, they are systems of internal states that covary with external targets, have a causal connections with their targets, can be tokened in the absence of their targets, and can guide behavior. First, I…
Some governments are taking tentative steps in this direction. Belgium may require that its soldiers be vaccinated before travelling abroad on peace-keeping missions. In other countries, companies are introducing requirements of their own. Air New Zealand will begin trialling vaccine…
The second objection to selective lockdown is around the ‘we are all in it together’ narrative, and raises concerns around discrimination and unequal treatment of different population groups. We offered reasons against these objections. Some of us have argued that…
McCulloch and Pitts’s idea had enormous ramifications. It contributed to the origin of computational psychology (computational models of cognition), connectionism (artificial neural network models of cognition), contemporary computational neuroscience (models of neural computation), artificial intelligence, and more. The modern computational…
Elsewhere on the blog Tom Douglas has discussed vaccine requirements for commonplace activities, such as going to the pub, created by the state in the form of law or guidance. Let’s call these vaccine requirements ‘state-originating’. Also on the blog,…
