I am a PhD candidate (ABD) in the Cognitive Science and Philosophy program at The Graduate Center, CUNY and an Instructor (tenure-track!) at LaGuardia College, CUNY.
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(cross-posted at Brains)
I have long wondered what dualists mean when they speak of nonphysical properties. Today I was reading Chalmers’ paper The Matrix as Metaphysics and he says something that may shed some light on the way in which he thinks of...
This last week was a very busy one. As you may have noticed from the side bar the call for papers for Consciousness Online is now out…spread the word!
Tuesday I attended a talk/discussion of a paper by Ned Block on Attention and direct realism. Direct...
Friday I attended James Dow’s talk at the CUNY Cogsci Speaker Series. He was concerned with answering the question of how people are able to ascribe various mental states to themselves. In particular he was interested in critiquing the account offered...
Friday I attended social psychologist James Uleman’s talk at the CUNY Cogsci Speaker Series. His topic was unconscious trait inferences. A trait inference is exemplified by the following. Subjects are presented with a sentence, for instance, “she...
That other guy reviewing my blog is an a-hole...reasoned arguments are welcomed at my blog. What is not welcome is bigotry under a religious guise.
UPDATE: Beware of this religious nut he will spam you to death in the name of the Lord!!
2nd UPDATE: Wow, this just gets better and better. Now this idiot is threatening to spam anyone who comments on my blog. Give it up already!!! Nobody cares about your bigoted anyi-gay remarks!!
Gotta love the internet!
I debated on this post and was very disappointed- http://onemorebrown.wordp ress.com/2007/07/13/marri age-and-civil-union/ .
One fallacy after another - straw-man, ad hominem attacks, etc.
Worse by far, he deleted and even edited a comment to say the opposite thing after he couldn't respond and now he is libeling me as a spammer and telling other lies.
Fortunately, I saved the comment thread here so the world can see who is telling the truth: http://4simpsons.wordpres s.com/2008/07/02/are-you- s ure-you-want-to-bring-jes u s-into-this/ (copy the link then delete the extra spaces)
He won't post a link to this on his site. Is the Philosophy Phd afraid of the truth? Why not let people read the thread and see who the bigot is? Why zero evidence? Why did he try to hide the post?
