Mandik Papers Files Updates

I've updated the files for several of the papers on my publications webpage. Here they are:

1. Mandik, Pete. (2011). Supervenience and Neuroscience. Synthese. 180 (3), 443-463. http://www.petemandik.com/philosophy/papers/sn.pdf 
2. Mandik, Pete. (2010). Swamp Mary’s Revenge: Deviant Phenomenal Knowledge and Physicalism. Philosophical Studies. 148 (2), 231-247. http://www.petemandik.com/philosophy/papers/swamp.pdf 
3. Mandik, Pete. (2010). Control Consciousness. Topics in Cognitive Science, 2 (4), 643-657. http://www.petemandik.com/philosophy/papers/cc.pdf 
4. Brook, Andrew and Mandik, Pete. (2007). The Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement. Analyse & Kritik 29(1): 3-23. http://www.petemandik.com/philosophy/papers/AK_Brook_Mandik_2007.pdf 
5. Mandik, Pete. (2006) The Introspectability of Brain States as Such. In: Keeley, Brian (ed.) Paul M. Churchland: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 66-87. http://www.petemandik.com/philosophy/papers/introspect.pdf 
6. Mandik, Pete. (2006). The Neurophilosophy of Consciousness. In: Velmans, Max and Schneider, Susan (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. pp. 418-430 http://www.petemandik.com/philosophy/papers/neurophilconsc.pdf 
7. Mandik, Pete and Brook, Andrew. (2005). Introduction. In: Brook, Andrew and Akins, Kathleen (eds.) Cognition and the Brain: The Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1-24. http://www.petemandik.com/philosophy/papers/cbintro.pdf 

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Three Blasts of Awe

Here's some stuff on the cultivation and/or explicablity of awe. Whoosh up!:

 Number 1: Jesse Prinz's new essay on awe..er..wonder, "How Wonder Works."

 Number 2: From Jason Silva's "Shots of Awe" YouTube channel, it's Awe:

Number 3: More YouTube: Science Saved My Soul:

New Mandik papers

I've got some new(-ish) papers up on my website now:

1. Mandik, Pete. (in press). Conscious-state Anti-realism. In: Munoz-Suarez, C. and De Brigard, F (eds.). Content and Consciousness Revisited. Berlin: Springer.
2. Mandik, Pete. (2013). What is Visual and Phenomenal but Concerns neither Hue nor Shade?. In R. Brown (Ed.), Consciousness Inside and Out: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Experience, Studies in Brain and Mind 6, (pp. 219-227). London, Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6001-1 1

Weatherson's Exactly Right about Blog Resucitation

Brian Weatherson at Thoughts Arguments and Rants: 

There’s a common way that a blog dies. For whatever reason, the author(s) can’t find time to make a post for a little while. Then there’s a feeling that given the time since the last post, any posting has to be a big deal. After all, if it was a little post, it could have been done earlier. But there’s never any time for that post, or never anything to say that’s a big deal, and possible to say in a blog post. So nothing gets written. The end. 

That’s a sad way to go, and there’s an easy solution. Just don’t give in to the feeling that the first post after a hiatus must be substantial.

Philosophy of Space and Time

Consciousness Inside and Out: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Experience

Brown, R. (ed.) Consciousness Inside and Out: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Experience

Brains: Study of Color Discrimination and Memory

Brains: Study of Color Discrimination and Memory: Study of Color Discrimination and Memory

We are conducting a study of color discrimination and short-term color memory. I would be grateful if you would participate in the study. You'll need to use the left and right arrow keys to adjust the color of a square to fit the color of a second image. It will only take about 5-10 minutes. Click on the link below to begin.
www.synesthesiaresearch.com/study

The Philosophers International Trailer

io9's The Essential Posthuman Science Fiction Reading List

The Essential Posthuman Science Fiction Reading List from i09.com

Foundations of Metacognition // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame

Foundations of Metacognition // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame

Dear Hammerheads: Big Data?

Calling all Hammerheads!

Dear Hammerheads,

Is anyone aware of any philosophical work, especially in phil mind or phil sci, (but whatever) on Big Data?

(http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data)

What's good? Whatchoogot?

Cheers,

Pete

Dennett Tweets

The actual real (pattern) Daniel Dennett is tweeting. Check out his tweets @danieldennett

Mole reviews Prinz's book on consciousness

The Conscious Brain: How Attention Engenders Experience // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame

Recent philosophy dissertation on conspiracy theories discusses my own work on CTs

Dentith's "In Defense of Conspiracy Theories": https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/2292/17107/whole.pdf Mandik, P. 2007. Shit Happens. Episteme: The Journal of Social Epistemology.4 (2). http://www.petemandik.com/philosophy/papers/shit.pdf