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How Boolean logic saved millions of lives
A guest post from Jack Copeland: If the ultra-secret logic machine they called Colossus shortened the Second World War by 6 months—and it was probably more—then 3 or 4 million lives were saved. Read about Colossus in “The Computer That Helped Win World War II”, an open access article in …

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Kim Soland: Pain Intensities
Pain Intensities Kim Soland I’m honored to have my work selected for the Griffith award and grateful for the opportunity to share a summary of it here. Pains are standardly conceived as featuring a variety of phenomenal qualities and a singular magnitude: pain intensity. But there are circumstances in which …

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Caitlin Mace: Vehicle Indeterminacy in Memory Neuroscience
On Vehicle Indeterminacy in Memory Neuroscience Caitlin Mace University of Pittsburgh Neural representations are broadly understood to be individuable structures or processes in the brain that have a representational role in cognition or behavior. This representational role can be elucidated in a number of ways, such as by the causal …

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Yoonhee Jung: Beyond Veridicality
What does attention do to perception? Yoonhee Jung Ned Block (2010; 2015) challenges representationalism on the grounds that covert attention—the allocation of attention without eye movement—can alter the phenomenal character of perceptual experience without changing its representational content.[1] He considers an experiment developed by Carrasco and her colleagues in which …

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Gavin Robert Foster: The Pluralistic Evolution of Mindreading
The Pluralistic Evolution of Factive Mindreading Gavin Robert FosterPurdue University The following is a significantly abridged version of a much-longer paper. As such, there are certain qualification and nuances that are lacking. For those interested in reading the current draft, please send me an email at foste362 at purdue dot …

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