Looking to the future, activities
I started an ambitious agenda of readings and writings.
I want to go through important texts in the history of psychology, for instance. William James's "The Principles of Psychology" is a starter. For the moment, I am making my way through the text dealing with late 19th century neuroscience, but I find it fascinating and it helps me identify the main themes that got to be treated through the ages up until now.
I am also in the process of reading and analysing some of the main texts having to do with externalism. Rob Wilson's recent "Boundaries of the Mind" is an example- I read his chapter on consciousness and intentionality, where he discusses Loar, Horgan & Tienson, and Galen Strawson. He is against a phenomenology of intentionality, but I find his arguments dealable with. Putnam's classic "The Meaning of 'Meaning'" is truly a model article. I like very much the way in which he constructed it and his method of argumentation. It makes one see just how mediocre other philosophical prose is.
I have two papers to write until around the 15th of January and one presentation to make on the 11th. The papers are concerned with (i) conditionals and mental simulationist approaches and (ii) externalism. I continue to be interested in the topics of my forthcoming dissertation, consciousness and intentionality and the relations between them.
I started to download and read some seminal papers from Trends in Cognitive Sciences, on consciousness, change blindness, and other hot contemporary topics. I want to familiarize myself to a great extent with Ned Block's recent work on NCCs and with Alva Noe's enactive views on perception.
Searle's extremely clear and mind-opening introductory book on the philosophy of mind inspires me to get acquainted with classical, as well as recent work on the main topics in the field. I want to read more about emotions and evolutionary approaches to the mind, about neurobiology and genetics.
Chomsky's "New Horizons in the Study of Mind and Language" is, according to Casati, a mind-opening book as well, and I started reading it recently. I find Chomsky, just like Putnam, to be a model in his thinking and expository manner.
I count on coming back with some sketches and drafts related to my two forthcoming papers.
I want to go through important texts in the history of psychology, for instance. William James's "The Principles of Psychology" is a starter. For the moment, I am making my way through the text dealing with late 19th century neuroscience, but I find it fascinating and it helps me identify the main themes that got to be treated through the ages up until now.
I am also in the process of reading and analysing some of the main texts having to do with externalism. Rob Wilson's recent "Boundaries of the Mind" is an example- I read his chapter on consciousness and intentionality, where he discusses Loar, Horgan & Tienson, and Galen Strawson. He is against a phenomenology of intentionality, but I find his arguments dealable with. Putnam's classic "The Meaning of 'Meaning'" is truly a model article. I like very much the way in which he constructed it and his method of argumentation. It makes one see just how mediocre other philosophical prose is.
I have two papers to write until around the 15th of January and one presentation to make on the 11th. The papers are concerned with (i) conditionals and mental simulationist approaches and (ii) externalism. I continue to be interested in the topics of my forthcoming dissertation, consciousness and intentionality and the relations between them.
I started to download and read some seminal papers from Trends in Cognitive Sciences, on consciousness, change blindness, and other hot contemporary topics. I want to familiarize myself to a great extent with Ned Block's recent work on NCCs and with Alva Noe's enactive views on perception.
Searle's extremely clear and mind-opening introductory book on the philosophy of mind inspires me to get acquainted with classical, as well as recent work on the main topics in the field. I want to read more about emotions and evolutionary approaches to the mind, about neurobiology and genetics.
Chomsky's "New Horizons in the Study of Mind and Language" is, according to Casati, a mind-opening book as well, and I started reading it recently. I find Chomsky, just like Putnam, to be a model in his thinking and expository manner.
I count on coming back with some sketches and drafts related to my two forthcoming papers.
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