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A neuroscientist's field guide In W. Bechtel, P. Mandik, J. Mundale & RS StufflebeamIn William P. Bechtel, Pete Mandik, Jennifer Mundale & Robert S. Stufflebeam (eds.), Philosophy and the Neurosciences: A Reader, Blackwell. pp. 419--430. 2001.
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15The virtuosity of the sensory cortex and the perils of common senseBehavioral and Brain Sciences 1 (3): 350-351. 1978.
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86On the Contrary: Critical Essays, 1987-1997 (edited book)MIT Press. 1998.This collection was prepared in the belief that the most useful and revealing of anyone's writings are often those shorter essays penned in conflict with...
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332Recent work on consciousness: Philosophical, theoretical, and empiricalIn Naoyuki Osaka (ed.), Neural Basis of Consciousness, John Benjamins. pp. 49--123. 2003.
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504As neuroscience uncovers these and other mechanisms regulating choices and social behaviour, we cannot help but wonder whether anyone truly chooses anything (though see "Is the universe deterministic?"). As a result, profound questions about responsibility are inescapable, not just regarding criminal justice, but in the day-to-day business of life. Given that, I suggest that free will, as traditionally understood, needs modification. Because of its importance in society, any description of free …Read more
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50From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case against BeliefPhilosophical Review 94 (3): 418. 1985.
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186Can neurobiology teach us anything about consciousness?Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 67 (4): 23-40. 1994.
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23Is the Visual System as Smart as It Looks?PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1982. 1982.Irvin Rock's hypothesis that certain stages of perceptual processing resemble problem solving in cognition is contrasted to some recent work in computer vision (Marr, Ullman) which tries to reduce intelligence in perception to computational organization. The focal example is subjective contours which Marr thought could be handled by computational modules without descending control, and which Rock thinks are the outcome of intelligent processing.
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64The Necessary-and-Sufficient BoondoggleAmerican Journal of Bioethics 7 (1): 54-55. 2007.No abstract
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4Replies to comments to symposium on Patricia Smith Churchland's neurophilosophyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 29 (June): 241-272. 1986.
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14Discussion: The timing of sensations: Reply to LibetPhilosophy of Science 48 (September): 492-497. 1981.
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99Word and ObjectMIT Press. 1960.Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is asocial art.
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5Moral decision-making and the brainIn Judy Illes (ed.), Neuroethics: Defining the Issues in Theory, Practice, and Policy, Oxford University Press Uk. 2005.
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351What Should We Expect From a Theory of Consciousness?In H. Jasper, L. Descarries, V. Castellucci & S. Rossignol (eds.), Consciousness: At the Frontiers of Neuroscience, Lippincott-raven. pp. 19-32. 1973.Within the domain of philosophy, it is not unusual to hear the claim that most questions about the nature of consciousness are essentially and absolutely beyond the scope of science, no matter how science may develop in the twenty-first century. Some things, it is pointed out, we shall never _ever_ understand, and consciousness is one of them (Vendler 1994, Swinburne 1994, McGinn 1989, Nagel 1994, Warner 1994). One line of reasoning assumes that consciousness is the manifestation of a distinctly…Read more
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39The co-evolutionary research ideologyIn Alvin I. Goldman (ed.), Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Mit Press. 1993.
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3Filling in: Why Dennett is wrongIn B. Dahlbom (ed.), Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind, Blackwell. 1993.
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5Reduction and the neurobiological basis of consciousnessIn Anthony J. Marcel & Edoardo Bisiach (eds.), Consciousness in Contemporary Science, Oxford University Press. 1988.
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2Can neurobiology teach us anything about consciousness?" Presidential Address to the American Philosophical Associatiojn, Pacific DivisionProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association. Lancaster Press: Lancaster, Pa. forthcoming.
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