Comeback
Long time, no see. Many things occurred during the interval. I obtained an M.A. in Philosophy from Paris IV, with a thesis on the phenomenal character of thought, and finished the course with appropriate French grades (minimum 17, I even got a 19). I am currently compiling an application for a PhD scholarship offered to Ecole Normale Supérieure graduates.
I got to visit Hungary (i.e. Budapest) and Japan (i.e. Tokyo) during the summer (2+2 weeks), in July and the beginning of August, with a short, one week intermezzo in Romania (Bucharest, Turnu Magurele and Sutesti). I participated at a summer school on the philosophy of physics at Central European University and at a summer school on cognitive neuroscience at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Wako-shi, near Tokyo. I went afterwards to Romania until the end of August and I returned to Paris on September the 1st.
If everything goes well, I will go in January to New York University, as a visiting scholar, remaining there until the beginning of May.
I have many more (and long-range) ideas about my academic career, but I keep these for me for the moment.
I started reading some fresh philosophy books, such as Devitt's "Ignorance of Language" and Stoljar's "Ignorance and Imagination". The first interests me from the point of view of the relations between language and thought (there are some new discussions on the map theory of thought as well), while the second is interesting from the point of view of phenomenal concepts and consciousness-physicalism discussions.
The topic of my PhD project is Externalism and Phenomenal Experience. I am finally making my way from work on thoughts to work on consciousness. I want to evaluate consciousness externalism, mainly in a critical vein, and propose consciousness and intentional internalism across the board, modulo intentional vehicle internalism. Intentional vehicle externalism seems plausible to me.
Perhaps I'll write with more regularity in this weblog in the coming months.
I got to visit Hungary (i.e. Budapest) and Japan (i.e. Tokyo) during the summer (2+2 weeks), in July and the beginning of August, with a short, one week intermezzo in Romania (Bucharest, Turnu Magurele and Sutesti). I participated at a summer school on the philosophy of physics at Central European University and at a summer school on cognitive neuroscience at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Wako-shi, near Tokyo. I went afterwards to Romania until the end of August and I returned to Paris on September the 1st.
If everything goes well, I will go in January to New York University, as a visiting scholar, remaining there until the beginning of May.
I have many more (and long-range) ideas about my academic career, but I keep these for me for the moment.
I started reading some fresh philosophy books, such as Devitt's "Ignorance of Language" and Stoljar's "Ignorance and Imagination". The first interests me from the point of view of the relations between language and thought (there are some new discussions on the map theory of thought as well), while the second is interesting from the point of view of phenomenal concepts and consciousness-physicalism discussions.
The topic of my PhD project is Externalism and Phenomenal Experience. I am finally making my way from work on thoughts to work on consciousness. I want to evaluate consciousness externalism, mainly in a critical vein, and propose consciousness and intentional internalism across the board, modulo intentional vehicle internalism. Intentional vehicle externalism seems plausible to me.
Perhaps I'll write with more regularity in this weblog in the coming months.
posted by Marius Dumitru at 5:18 AM
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