Fodorian Philosophy of Psychology
The following six theses characterize what I will call Fodorian Philosophy of Psychology (FPP, for short): There are psychological laws Psychological laws are required for psychological explanations...
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The Analytic Functionalists Were (Probably) Right!
The mind-body problem asks: How are mental states related to physical states of the brain, the body, and behavioral states more generally? Functionalists claim that mental states are identical with...
View ArticleMore on Nagel’s “Mind and Cosmos”
The following analysis was submitted by Brains reader Bruce Mayo, a retired computational linguist with some background in philosophy, in response to Kristina’s much-discussed post. Enjoy! Now that...
View ArticleModeling and the autonomy of psychology
Modeling has come to occupy a central place in philosophy of science. In recent decades, an enormous amount has been written on the practices of model construction, how models represent their targets,...
View ArticleRevisiting Reduction and Emergence in the Sciences
Many thanks to John Schwenkler for allowing me to blog here about my new book Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy. The book is long, so I will seek to unpack the main themes of the book’s...
View ArticleThe Scientific Reductionist and her Live Fundamentalist Position
The widespread philosophical view is that reductionism in the sciences is a dead view and perhaps slightly distasteful to boot. As I outlined in an earlier post, the received view assumes that...
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The Scientific Emergentist and her Striking Metaphysical Mutualism
Part III of the book focuses on reconstructing the scientific emergentism of writers like Anderson, Freeman, Laughlin, Prigogine, and others, and providing a theoretical framework for its claims. I...
View ArticleOur New, Ongoing and Empirically Resolvable Debates over Reduction and Emergence
Some philosophers of science have suggested that scientific discussions of “reductionism” and “emergentism” are merely rhetorical funding grabs. But drawing together my work in earlier parts of the...
View ArticleExplanation and Integration in Mind and Brain Science
This forthcoming volume, edited by David Kaplan, should be of interest to The Brains Blog community, and it includes papers by fellow contributors Gualtiero Piccinini and Corey Maley:...
View ArticlePhilosophical Foundations of Neurolaw
Another book that may be of interest to The Brains Blog community is my Philosophical Foundations of Neurolaw, which is coming out next month. A major aim of the book is to provide an alternative to...
View Article2. Composite Subjectivity and Functional Structure
Consider a contrast. The solar system contains my brain as a part; my brain is conscious; the solar system is not conscious (at least in any everyday sense – let’s set panpsychism aside for now)....
View ArticleMore on Nagel’s “Mind and Cosmos”
The following analysis was submitted by Brains reader Bruce Mayo, a retired computational linguist with some background in philosophy, in response to Kristina’s much-discussed post. Enjoy! Now that...
View ArticleModeling and the autonomy of psychology
Modeling has come to occupy a central place in philosophy of science. In recent decades, an enormous amount has been written on the practices of model construction, how models represent their targets,...
View ArticleRevisiting Reduction and Emergence in the Sciences
Many thanks to John Schwenkler for allowing me to blog here about my new book Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy. The book is long, so I will seek to unpack the main themes of the book’s...
View ArticleThe Scientific Reductionist and her Live Fundamentalist Position
The widespread philosophical view is that reductionism in the sciences is a dead view and perhaps slightly distasteful to boot. As I outlined in an earlier post, the received view assumes that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Scientific Emergentist and her Striking Metaphysical Mutualism
Part III of the book focuses on reconstructing the scientific emergentism of writers like Anderson, Freeman, Laughlin, Prigogine, and others, and providing a theoretical framework for its claims. I...
View ArticleOur New, Ongoing and Empirically Resolvable Debates over Reduction and Emergence
Some philosophers of science have suggested that scientific discussions of “reductionism” and “emergentism” are merely rhetorical funding grabs. But drawing together my work in earlier parts of the...
View ArticleExplanation and Integration in Mind and Brain Science
This forthcoming volume, edited by David Kaplan, should be of interest to The Brains Blog community, and it includes papers by fellow contributors Gualtiero Piccinini and Corey Maley:...
View ArticlePhilosophical Foundations of Neurolaw
Another book that may be of interest to The Brains Blog community is my Philosophical Foundations of Neurolaw, which is coming out next month. A major aim of the book is to provide an alternative to...
View Article2. Composite Subjectivity and Functional Structure
Consider a contrast. The solar system contains my brain as a part; my brain is conscious; the solar system is not conscious (at least in any everyday sense – let’s set panpsychism aside for now)....
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