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My new paper on "Illusionism about virtual causation" is just out at Inquiry. Open Access, so everyone can read it. Check it out...

My new paper on "Illusionism about virtual causation" is just out at Inquiry. Open Access, so everyone can read it. Check it out here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0020174X.2024.2403142#d1e144
#VR #philosophy

Props to Suhrkamp and ProQuest for treating #academic #ebooks like physical books. So that if one student happens to download the 1 copy we...

Props to Suhrkamp and ProQuest for treating #academic #ebooks like physical books. So that if one student happens to download the 1 copy we have licensed, everyone else is sod out of luck.

Great work. High fives all-round.

Here is the poster for our upcoming workshop on neuroscientific explanation in Berlin #philosophy #neuroscience

Here is the poster for our upcoming workshop on neuroscientific explanation in Berlin #philosophy #neuroscience

Reminder CFP: Berlin Workshop on Neuroscientific Explanation (12th-13th October)Consider submitting an abstract and joining us at the TU...

Reminder CFP: Berlin Workshop on Neuroscientific Explanation (12th-13th October)

Consider submitting an abstract and joining us at the TU Berlin if you are interested in the philosophical questions connected with the nature of explanation in #neuroscience. Deadline: 6th August.

Keynote speakers:
Galia Avidan (University of the Negev)
Nir Fresco (University of the Negev)
Friedemann Pulvermüller (FU Berlin)
Peter Schulte (Uni Zürich)

More info: https://www.tu.berlin/philkognition/events/neuroexp-2023

#philosophy @philosophy

CFP: Berlin Workshop on Neuroscientific Explanation (12th-13th October)Consider submitting an abstract and joining us at the TU Berlin if...

CFP: Berlin Workshop on Neuroscientific Explanation (12th-13th October)

Consider submitting an abstract and joining us at the TU Berlin if you are interested in the philosophical questions connected with the nature of explanation in #neuroscience. Deadline: 6th August.

Keynote speakers:
Galia Avidan (University of the Negev)
Nir Fresco (University of the Negev)
Friedemann Pulvermüller (FU Berlin)
Peter Schulte (Uni Zürich)

More info: https://www.tu.berlin/philkognition/events/neuroexp-2023

#philosophy @philosophy

Today in my class on Early Modern Rationalism, we discussed the following all-important question:Why, in Anne Conway's #philosophy,...

Today in my class on Early Modern Rationalism, we discussed the following all-important question:

Why, in Anne Conway's #philosophy, doesn't the devil turn into a rock?

Karen Bennett on how to properly evaluate #counterfactuals and the tools you need:"When you are supposed to imagine c1 gone, you...

Karen Bennett on how to properly evaluate #counterfactuals and the tools you need:

"When you are supposed to imagine c1 gone, you imagine it gone. You do not worry about how the past would have to be different to make it fail to occur, and you do not worry about what else might occur in its place. You simply snip it away as though you had a metaphysical hole-puncher."

("Why the exclusion problem seems intractable, and how, just maybe, to tract it", Nous, vol. 37, no. 3, p. 482)

#philosophy

2/2 For Craver, ontic explanations are really existing mechanisms, while epistemic explanations are representations. For Salmon, ontic...

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For Craver, ontic explanations are really existing mechanisms, while epistemic explanations are representations. For Salmon, ontic explanation represents real causal relations between explananda and explanantia, while epistemic explanation names factors which make the explanandum expectable.

These two distinctions have nothing in common except the name, and Craver's dogged insistence to the contrary cannot change this.

1/2 The joys of #philosophy: The new SEP article on causal approaches to explanation conflates Craver's distinction between ontic and...

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The joys of #philosophy: The new SEP article on causal approaches to explanation conflates Craver's distinction between ontic and epistemic sense of explanation with Salmon's earlier distinction between ontic and epistemic conception of explanation.

My new book "Neural Machines: A Defense of Non-Representationalism in Cognitive Neuroscience" is now out with Springer.Check it...

My new book "Neural Machines: A Defense of Non-Representationalism in Cognitive Neuroscience" is now out with Springer.

Check it out here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-26746-8

#philosophy #philosophyofscience #neuroscience #cogsci

Some time ago I translated one of my favourite stanzas of #Slovak #poetry into English. Went for blank verse - fitting for a 19th century...

Some time ago I translated one of my favourite stanzas of #Slovak #poetry into English. Went for blank verse - fitting for a 19th century Romantic work.

Taken from "Marína" by Andrej Sládkovič

They say analytic #philosophy is dry, but sometimes there are wonderful little nuggets of gold (or perhaps dubloons), like this nice simile...

They say analytic #philosophy is dry, but sometimes there are wonderful little nuggets of gold (or perhaps dubloons), like this nice simile from Lewis on causal explanation.