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Why I think, in the current A.I. moment, we should be reading Paul Churchland.
The more I get into philosophical and philosophy-adjacent discussions of current-generation "artificial intelligence" (large language models and the like), the more dismayed I am not to see any discussion of the large body of relevant work by Paul Churchland.
The Popular Arts Conference (PAC) invites submissions for our 19th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, September 3-7, 2026. PAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media; comic books an
“Empirically, all reflection sets out from the problematic and confused. Its aim is to clarify and ascertain. When thinking is successful, its career closes in transforming the disordered into the orderly, the mixed-up into the distinguished or placed, the unclear and ambiguous into the defined an unequivocal, the disconnected into the systematized.” – John Dewey, Experience and Nature (1925, LW 1: 60).
Join us in October as we celebrate the Experience and Nature Centennial:
https://deweycenter.siu.edu/center-events/conference.php
This Friday, the Center for Dewey Studies will host a special Lunchtime Talk and Alwin Carus Lecture by Joseph Urbas on Emerson’s influence on John Dewey.
Find out more at
https://deweycenter.siu.edu/center-events/
Our call for Poster Session proposals for the Experience & Nature Centennial Conference has been extended to June 30th. There's still time to join us at SIU for this landmark anniversary!
Find out more and submit your proposal at https://deweycenter.siu.edu/center-events/conference.php
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