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Rotman Seminar: Pleasure Fundamentalism
Room 4190 - Western Interdisciplinary Research Building Western Interdisciplinary Research Building, Room 4190, LondonEVENT DESCRIPTION SPEAKER PROFILE: Neil Sinhababu is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. He is author of Humean Nature (2017), published by Oxford University Press; and Nietzsche on the Eternal Recurrence, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. ABSTRACT: Pleasure fundamentalism is the view that moral value is pleasure, and this explains [...]
Arthur Sullivan — Wittgenstein, Carnap & Copernicus: adapting the a priori
Join us for a pre-read & virtual discussion with Rotman visiting fellow Arthur Sullivan. Please register below if you plan to attend. The reading for this event will be distributed to registered attendees a week before the event date. A link to the Zoom event will be shared the day before the event. ABSTRACT My point [...]
Corey Maley: Analog Computation and Representation
Room 4190 - Western Interdisciplinary Research Building Western Interdisciplinary Research Building, Room 4190, LondonNeuroscientists and psychologists regularly appeal to computation to explain (and not just model) what the brain and mind is doing. But it is rather clear that, whatever they mean by computation, it is not digital computation. Could it be analog computation? Based on historical examples, I argue that there is more to analog computation than [...]