The first issue of a new peer-reviewed journal called Neuroethics is available online. Edited by Neil Levy, a regular contributor to Experimental Philosophy and The Garden of Forking Paths, the journal offers free access to the full text of all...
Posted on March 18, 2008 4:06 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
David Chalmers, a professor of philosophy at the Australian National University and director of the Center for Consciousness, has just announced the launch of MindPapers, an online database of papers about the philosophy of mind. The database is very comprehensive...
Posted on October 25, 2007 9:38 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Philosophers Andrew Brook and Pete Mandik provide an uncorrected proof of their paper, The Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement, which is to be published in a forthcoming special issue of Analyse & Kritic. The paper gives an overview of how philosophy...
Posted on October 5, 2007 8:23 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In today's New York Times, John Tierney discusses an argument by Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, that our existence could be nothing more than a computer simulation being run by...
Posted on August 14, 2007 4:15 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In The Matrix (Andy and Larry Wachowski, 1999) Keanu Reeves plays a computer programmer who leads a double life as a hacker called "Neo". After receiving cryptic messages on his computer monitor, Neo begins to search for the elusive Morpheus...
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Posted on August 4, 2007 7:12 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
