Pictures I took in #NYC during the #APAeastern19. (Apparently I was too occupied during daylight hours to get a single daytime photo.)
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It was a delight to meet some of the cool, clever people that I‘ve only followed online prior to #APAeastern19. E.g.,
@GreggDCaruso
@jmatthiasdow
Cecilea Mun (http://cmergence.com/
Mark Alfano (http://alfanophilosophy.com
@nathanoseroff
@m_j_hannon
@ericmandelbaum
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Adam Bradley and Quinn Hiroshi Gibson argue for a two-factor, expressionist account of monothematic delusions (e.g., thinking that your spouse is an imposter, others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monothematic_delusion at the #APAeastern19. Jessica Wahman highlights Spinozist,...
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Gerardo Viera argues for pluralism about how we demarcate sensory systems because criteria for individuation must be able to solve “The Goldilocks Problem”, but doing so results in different sensory taxonomies whose adequacy varies wrt regions of architecture. #APAeastern19
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Elise Woodard argues for a form of Normative/Evaluative Externalism, drawing on cases of implicit bias, drug use, and gaslighting at the #APAeastern19. Find out more on Elise’s website: https://elisewoodard.me/
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Author of ‘Representation in Cognitive Science’ (https://amzn.to/2H5J6ib Nicholas Shea, meets critics Frances Egan, Ned Block (@De_dicto) at #APAeastern19.
- Block suggests representational accuracy is a normative notion.
- Egan offers deflationary account of representation.
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Check out this preview for my talk "Implicit Bias: Advancing the Debate" in the Philosophy of Mind Colloquium from 1:30-4:30pm in Liberty 5 (3rd floor) at #APAeastern19. (Sharing and RTing welcome. 😉)
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Michael Hannon (@m_j_hannon at @UniofNottingham), author of 'What's the Point of Knowledge?' (https://amzn.to/2LZQhr2 sorts through the literature which answers the question, "What is the relationship between skepticism the concerns of daily life?" #APAeastern19
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Impressed by candor, rigor from @PhilosophyWille at #APAeastern19: initial findings intermittently supported action/omission asymmetry thesis: responsibility/blame judgments *sometimes* varied between Frankfurt-style cases that intervene on decision-making vs. behavior.
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Author of 'Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account' (https://amzn.to/2SI64xe Gualtiero Piccinini, meets critics: Frances Egan, John Symons (not pictured), Nico Orlandi, and Martin Roth (unable to attend). Some overview slides, points here and below. (Thread)
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“Someone once asked, ‘What’s the difference between [Jerry] Fodor and cats?’ to which someone answered, ‘Cats have claws.’ In fact, [Jerry] Fodor also had claws [and] his attitude [was no less feisty or stubborn than a cat’s].”
—@DanielDennett
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“[A common phenomena in cognitive science is philosophers struggling to interest scientists and scientists having trouble satisfying philosophers], but Jerry [Fodor] could talk to both sides from the very beginning [of cognitive science].”
—Susan Carey
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“Jerry [Fodor] was a curmudgeon ..., but, to his credit, he was not a faddist, [pushing back, sometimes fiercely, on new (or newly packaged) ideas and reminding us of the merits of existing and even old ideas].”
—@StephenPinker
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My 12-hour (and counting) day at the #APAeastern19 started with, ended with, and was chock full of #xPhi. 😊 cdn.ymaws.com/www.apaonline.org/resour...
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Wesley Buckwalter (@wesbuc) explains some troubling evidence for contextualism about knowledge: knowledge judgments varied significantly by context, but the variance was repeatedly mediated by invariant (rather than contextual) features of cases. #APAeastern19 #xPhi
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I'm listening to Paul Silva Jr convince me that we can know something without believing it at the #APAeastern19. (Here's the paper: https://philpapers.org/rec/SILBK-2
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"this survey [can] help you think about how inclusive practices already appear in your teaching and what others might be included...." From the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (#AAPT) session at the #APAeastern19:...
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Mark Alfano explains network analysis and its applications in philosophy.
(Aside: this is a candidate for the coolest illustrations of the #APAeastern19—and I left out what was perhaps the most hilarious slide I’ve ever seen, ever).
For more:...
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“most... denied ...objective moral truths [and] had the intuition that [the truth of] moral sentences depends both on their own moral beliefs and on the dominant moral beliefs within their culture.”
—Pölzler & Wright
#xPhi talk at #APAEastern19
Paper:...
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Just added my handout to the @apaphilosophy app for the 2019 #APAEastern19 in NYC next week. Find the PDF version in my @Dropbox: www.dropbox.com/s/vuu2t1xooa0pho2/The%20...
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