General Philosophy - Download free content from Oxford University Ned Block Ned Joel Block (born 1942) is an American philosopher working in philosophy of mind who has made important contributions to the understanding of consciousness and the philosophy of cognitive science. He has been professor of philosophy and psychology at New York University since 1996. Education and career[edit] Block obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 1971 under the direction of Hilary Putnam. Block received the Jean Nicod Prize in 2013, and has given the William James Lectures at Harvard University in 2012 and the John Locke Lectures at Oxford University in 2013,[1] among many others. Block is Past President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2004.[2] He is married to the developmental psychologist Susan Carey. Philosophical work[edit] Block has been a judge at the Loebner Prize contest, a contest in the tradition of the Turing Test to determine whether a conversant is a computer or a human.
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Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 | Plog — World news photography, Photos Posted Jul 26, 2010 Share This Gallery inShare324 These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders. Connecticut town on the sea. Farm auction. Children gathering potatoes on a large farm. Trucks outside of a starch factory. Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper office (Brockton Enterprise). Children in the tenement district. Going to town on Saturday afternoon. Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains. Barker at the grounds at the state fair. Backstage at the "girlie" show at the state fair. At the Vermont state fair. Couples at square dance. Orchestra at square dance. Children asleep on bed during square dance. Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family. The Faro Caudill family eating dinner in their dugout. School children singing. On main street of Cascade.
The nature of persons - Philosophy: The nature of persons This unit asks what it is to be a person. You will see that there are several philosophical questions around the nature of personhood. Here we explore what it is that defines the concept. This unit is an adapted extract from the Open University course Postgraduate foundation module in philosophy (A850). 20 [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab.
Alan Baddeley Alan David Baddeley, CBE, FRS, FMedSci (born 23 March 1934) is a British psychologist. He is professor of psychology at the University of York. He is known for his work on working memory, in particular for his multiple components model. Education[edit] Baddeley was born in Leeds, Yorkshire on 23 March 1934.[1][2] He graduated from University College London in 1956 and obtained an MA from Princeton University's Department of Psychology in 1957. Career and research[edit] In 1974, working with Graham Hitch, Baddeley developed an influential model of working memory called Baddeley's model of working memory,[5] which argues for the existence of multiple short term memory stores and a separate interacting system for manipulating the content of these stores. Other notable works[edit] Baddeley was involved in the design of United Kingdom postcodes,[8] and was one of the founders of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. References[edit] Jump up ^
UC Irvine Water is the economic, social, and physical lifeblood of humanity, providing the bases for agriculture, industry, transportation, energy production, and life itself. Despite its importance, alarming signs suggest that there are looming threats to this vital resource. The World Resources Institute contends that the world's thirst for water is likely to become one of the most pressing issues this century due to population growth, drought, and climate change. The purpose of this course is to illuminate how water is a political, social, economic, and environmental challenge and to suggest ways we might manage it better and more equitably.
Home Past Lectures Does conscious perception have representational content? Or are the representations involved in perception all sub-personal underpinnings of perception rather than partly constitutive of perception itself? Is “unconscious perception” really perception? The 2013 John Locke Lecture series were held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in weeks 2 to 7 of Trinity Term 2013. Brentano made aboutness the defining feature of the mental. And yet the notion plays no serious role in philosophical semantics. I will be asking, first, how we might go about making subject matter a separate factor in sentence meaning/content, and second, what “directed contents” can do for us in other parts of philosophy. The 2012 John Locke Lecture series was held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in weeks 2 to 6 of Trinity Term 2012. Trinity Term 2011 John Cooper, (Princeton) 'Ancient Greek Philosophies as a Way of Life' Abstract The 2011 John Locke Lecture series was held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in weeks 1 to 6 of Trinity Term 2011.
Détail Notion Description élargie "Sur le terrain de l'intelligence, nous parlerons...de stades lorsque les conditions suivantes sont remplies: 1. que la succession des conduites soit constante indépendamment des accélérations ou des retards qui peuvent modifier les âges chronologiques moyens en fonction de l'expérience acquise et du milieu social (comme des aptitudes individuelles); 2. que chaque stade soit défini non pas par une propriété simplement dominante mais par une structure d'ensemble caractérisant toutes les conduites nouvelles propres à ce stade; 3. que ces structures présentent un processus d'intégration tel que chacune soit préparée par la précédente et s'intègre dans la suivante" (Biologie et connaissance, p. 27). Il est toutefois important de préciser que, aux yeux de Piaget lui-même, l'accès à un nouveau stade n'implique pas que les anciennes conduites ou les acquis des précédents stades disparaissent totalement. Résultat de la recherche dans « Présentation de l'œuvre de Piaget »
THE STONE - Opinionator Blog This is the second in a series of interviews about religion that I am conducting for The Stone. The interviewee for this installment is Louise Antony, a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the editor of the essay collection “Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life.” Gary Gutting: You’ve taken a strong stand as an atheist, so you obviously don’t think there are any good reasons to believe in God. Louise Antony: I’m not sure what you mean by saying that I’ve taken a “strong stand as an atheist.” G.G.: That is what I mean. L.A.: O.K. I say ‘there is no God’ with the same confidence I say ‘there are no ghosts’ or ‘there is no magic.’ That’s not to say that I think everything is within the scope of human knowledge. But getting back to your question: I’m puzzled why you are puzzled how rational people could disagree about the existence of God. L.A.: Well I’m challenging the idea that there’s one fundamental view here.
Welcome to the Johns Hopkins Federal Credit Union Susan Schneider (philosopher) Susan Schneider is an American philosopher. She is a professor of philosophy and cognitive science at The University of Connecticut, a fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and a faculty member in the Ethics and Technology Group at the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University. The Language of Thought The Metaphysics of Mind Physicalism holds that everything is made up of entities that physics says are fundamental, such as particles, fields or strings. Astrobiology and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Uploading, Cognitive Enhancement and the Singularity The Language of Thought: a New Philosophical Direction, MIT Press, 2011.The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, (with Max Velmans), eds., Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2006.Science Fiction and Philosophy, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.