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A brain in the hand
This post is mostly just to test out the WordPress for iPhone app. Also, here’s a screenshot from the free app, Brain Tutor.
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Swamp Mary vs. The Anti-Physicalists
Ignore the part about the hoax. It’s Swamp Mary Season here at Brain Hammer. Starting very soon, I’ll be serializing my new paper, “Swamp Mary Semantics: A Case for Physicalism Without Gaps.” But...
View ArticlePhilosophy of Neuroscience on PhilPapers
I am now PhilPapers editor for the philosophy of neuroscience and most of its subcategories. I urge Brain Hammer readers with pertinent research to make sure it’s included. See links below. Also, heed...
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Swamp Mary Semantics: A Case for Physicalism Without Gaps
Welcome to my weird adventure. Here begins the first post in the serialization of my work in progress, “Swamp Mary Semantics: A Case for Physicalism Without Gaps,” sequel to “Swamp Mary’s...
View ArticleGold and Roskies on Philosophy of Neuroscience
The following link [link] is to a Google books version of the following overview of the philosophy of neuroscience by Ian Gold and Adina Roskies: Gold, I., & Roskies, A. (2008). Philosophy of...
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There’s Something About Swamp Mary
Phenomenal fact fight. In this, the second post in the series, “Swamp Mary Semantics: A Case for Physicalism Without Gaps,” I spell out some further crucial details of the central thought...
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Putting the Physicalism in Gappy Physicalism
Physicalism: efficacy and complexity. I’ve already said what is gappy about gappy physicalism [link]. I turn now to say a few key remarks about the physicalism of gappy physicalism. It is...
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Swamp Mary and the Psychosemantic Challenge
Swamp swamps swamp swamp swamps. There are two general approaches to the psychosemantics of phenomenal knowledge in normal subjects that are quite easy to see as totally doomed to fail to account...
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Nomological Psychosemantics in the Swamp
In the swamp. To see why Nomological is incompatible with Mary’s prerelease ignorance, it helps to first notice a very natural account that Nomological is able to give for knowledge of unobservables....
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Brain Hammer has moved to http://petemandik.blogspot.com/. Please manipulate your control surfaces accordingly. Running Brain Hammer on Wordpress hosted at Globat has been a giant nightmare. For...
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