Audio and Video
What can we teach our posthuman descendants?
Hintikka as philosophical nonconformist. Pacific APA April 2 2016
PHIL 148: Reason and Argument (video playlist)
You can find a set of most of the videos for my Reason and Argument course here
Read MoreTalk: Physicalism and Scientific Evidence (audio December 5, 2013)
Physicalism, Interaction, and Information Loss (March 28 2013)
A talk for the Fifth Workshop on the Philosophy of Information
Read MorePhilosophy TV (philostv.com) with Paul Humphreys, Discussion of Emergent Properties in Philosophy and Science
A property is said to be emergent if it arises from but is not reducible to some fundamental property (or set of properties). There is a wide range of properties that might conceivably be emergent; consciousness is the textbook example, which might explain why philosophers of mind are responsible for some of the most fully developed treatments…
Read MoreComplexity and the Laws of Nature, European Conference on Complex Systems 2010
An Introduction to Emergence, Arrabida 2009.
Winter School in Complexity 2010
Neuphi presentation
An informal talk on pain and embodiment from Friday, April 18th, 2008 to the neuphi group. http://www.neuphi.com/mp3s/Symons1.mp3 http://www.neuphi.com/mp3s/Symons2.mp3 There are many great talks in their archive at: http://www.neuphi.com/history.html
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