More Mind Reading Technology
A friend sent me this link: On giving computers the ability to recognize our emotions by observing our facial expressions.
View ArticleCommunication by Gaze Interaction
Anna-Mari Rusanen told me about this story. Kati Lepisto is a Finnish former model who is now almost completely paralized. She communicates by spelling words with her eye movements, and the best...
View ArticleComputational Explanation in Neuroscience
As many of you know, the journal Synthese devotes one issue per year to the philosophy of neuroscience. If you work in this area, you should definitely consider submitting articles to John Bickle, who...
View ArticleGood Old Fashioned–and Insighful–Cognitive Science
I’ve recently completed a short scientific biography of Allen Newell, for the forthcoming new volumes of Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Newell (d. 1992) is one of the giants of computer science...
View ArticleOnline Lectures by Davis, Kripke, and McCarthy
Oron Shagrir informed me that three of the lectures from the recent Workshop on the Origins and Nature of Computation that took place in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv have been posted online, courtesy of the...
View ArticlePhilosophy of Neuroscience
There is a new web site dedicated to the philosophy of neuroscience. Gualtiero Piccinini (Philosophy, University of Missouri St. Louis) and I (Carl Craver; Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program,...
View ArticleGelertner, Kurzweil, and Copeland Video
Corey Maley sent me “a link to a webcast of a debate between David Gelerntner and Ray Kurzweil on machine consciousness. Perhaps a bit more interesting is a talk by Jack Copeland on Turing’s...
View ArticleSimulation Theory and Robotics
My colleague Bob Gordon is the originator of the simulation theory, one of the two main theories of folk psychology (the other being the theory theory). Aside from being an influential theory in...
View ArticleSpaceTimeMind
You may (or may not) have noticed that Pete Mandik and Richard Brown (me) have started a podcast, called SpaceTimeMind, where we talk about tax law updates for 2014, uh, I mean, er, we talk about space...
View ArticleSpaceTimeMind
You may (or may not) have noticed that Pete Mandik and Richard Brown (me) have started a podcast, called SpaceTimeMind, where we talk about tax law updates for 2014, uh, I mean, er, we talk about space...
View Article2. Psychological and Computational Models of Sentence Processing
Last time, I argued that there are substantive open questions about whether the theoretical constructs of formal linguistics play any role in the psychological processes underlying language use. Let’s...
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