Conditionals and Mental Simulation

The next few days I will be looking over a project that started as a paper for a seminar given by Pascal Engel at the Sorbonne in 2005/06, on conditionals and mental simulation. The topics are interesting and they might occupy a significant part of my time for the next years.

Static electricity

Not really related to the issues exposed here, but an ubiquitous problem at home. The cold weather and the dry air are to blame and I search various websites for tips ro reduce the effects of this phenomenon. There was a really big spark tonight when I reached for a switch. Just wanted to get that off my mind.

Retrospective and prospective remarks

There was a considerable hiatus between my last post here and the current one, because I have been submerged in various actions having to do with my academic formation. I am currently in New York, until May 7, as a visiting scholar at the Department of Philosophy of New York University.

I am working on two articles, "Can Content Be Both Phenomenological and Externalist?", and "Cognitive Qualia and Functionalism". For the moment, I am critically reading articles on the subject and gathering some remarks on the topics. I hope to develop these into arguments in the following two weeks, in order to finish the first article until March 15. I intend to finish the second article by the end of April.

If things go well, I will be in the United States or Great Britain for the next three to five years. Let's hope this will be so.