Philosophical Meditations of a Student

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Discover all that you need to know to start engaging in topics such as philosophy, cognitive science, and education.

Philosophy, cognitive science, and education

Follow our posts on analytic philosophy of mind

Learn all you need to know about the main theories in analytic philosophy of mind.

1. Substance dualism
2. Analytic behaviorism
3. Verification criterion
4. Functionalism
5. Principle of multiple realizability
6. Representational theory of mind
7. Eliminative materialism
8. Intentional stance theory

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How has philosophy of mind contributed to the development of cognitive science? Discover this and much more.

Start learning about the main language teaching methods

1. A review of the main approaches
2. The functional neuroanatomy of language
3. Constructivism and language teaching
4. The grammar-translation approach
5. Early Berlitz method
6. The direct method
7. The audiolingual method

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What are the main approaches to language teaching? How can each method help me teach my students what they need to know?

Learn about cognitive science

1. Neural networks
2. Turing machines
3. Tolman’s latent learning
4. Tolman’s cognitive maps
5. Lashley’s research
6. Miller’s working memory
7. Chomsky’s formal analysis of syntax

Delve into educational psychology

1. The neuroscience of learning, part 1
2. The neuroscience of learning, part 2
3. Piaget’s theory of cogntiive development
4. Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory

Discover the meaning of phenomenology

1. Introduction to phenomenology
2. What is intentionality?

What do you need to know before becoming a good teacher?

1. Gagné’s nine events of instruction
2. NTL’s pyramid of learning
3. Differential sensitivity
4. The process communication model / ESPAÑOL
5. Evaluación idiográfica o por procesos

Chalmers’ zombism and Frankish’s response

Four friends looking at the sunset, but, are they actually going through the phenomenological properties of looking at the sunset?      David Chalmers has a lot to say about philosophy of mind and consciousness research. He is famous for proposing what we understand as “philosophical zombies” and what is usually termed “the Hard problem of

by Fred M R August 5, 2020

Reading session – Going Beyond the Fundamental: Feminism in Contemporary Philosophy (Barnes, 2014)

    Most people in the Latin American public argue about feminism as if they knew a thing about it. Honestly, I don’t know a thing about it myself. After The Philosophy Chat on Discord decided to open a channel for feminist philosophy, they sent two separate articles, one of them being “Going beyond the fundamental:

by Fred M R August 2, 2020August 2, 2020

Teoría de gratitud en el pensamiento político chavista

    En el pensamiento político chavista, así como en buena parte de la corriente común de pensamiento en la población venezolana, es bastante ubicua la idea de que tenemos la obligación de obedecer al Estado (the obligation to obey the law, diferente de la expresión en inglés the obligation to comply with the law; la

by Fred M R August 2, 2020