Maria Lugones: A Meditation on Acompañamiento, Compartir y Compas A continuación se encuentra una versión en español. A Spanish translation of this post is below. I remember the first time I met you. It was the last semester of undergrad and I had registered for a women of color literature course at the University of South Florida. It was the first time I saw […]
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The Details Might Just Matter Post 3 of 5 from Mazviita Chirimuuta on The Brain Abstracted (Open Access: MIT Press). In the previous post I described how the literal interpretation of neurocomputational models encourages us to attend only to the perceived commonalities between brains and computers and to relegate the differences to the periphery of …
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Why Does Simplification Rule Out Explanation? Commentary from Carrie Figdor on today’s post from Mazviita Chirimuuta on The Brain Abstracted (MIT Press). The animating idea of Chirimuuta’s book is that science, and neuroscience in particular, must engage in simplification in order to explain a complex world. The epistemic dangers of taking the outcomes of simplification strategies …
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Teaching Moral Reasoning with Terminator and Jesus Semester after semester, I embarked on helping students to appreciate that morally relevant decisions are not a matter of personal preference, and I struggled to enable them to consider that moral judgments cannot simply be borrowed from an alleged moral authority – be it God, some political leader, or a famous media pundit. Then, one […]
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Book of Interest: Cairns and Virág, eds., In the Mind, in the Body, in the World Oxford University Press has recently published Douglas Cairns and Curie Virág, eds., In the Mind, in the Body, in the World: Emotions in Early China and Ancient Greece. The Oxford Scholarship Online version (with links to all the abstracts, and full text for those with institutional subscriptions) is here: https://academic.oup.com/book/56286 And the print version is here: […]
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