I just realized that maybe I’m confusing things by talking about philosophy journals, when really I mean to include cognitive science journals in general.
But what I said in my original post applies to cognitive science journals as well, it’s just that when you’re talking about philosophy (e.g. idealized preference theories of value), you place what you’re saying in the context of the relevant philosophy, and when you’re talking about neuroscience (e.g. the complexity of human values) then you place what you’re saying in the context of the relevant neuroscience, and when you’re talking about AI (e.g. approaches to AGI) then you place what you’re saying in the context of relevant AI research. You can do all three in the same paper.
The kind of philosophy I spend most of my time reading these days is just like that, actually. Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment spends just as much time discussing work done by psychologists like Dawes and Kahneman as it does discussing epistemologists like Goldman and Stich. Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account spends much more time discussing neuroscience than it does philosophy. Three Faces of Desire is split about 60⁄40 between philosophy and neuroscience. Many of the papers on machine ethics aka Friendly AI are split about 50⁄50 between philosophy and AI programming. Cognitive science is like this, after all.
In fact, I’ve been going through the Pennachin & Goertzel volume, reading it as a philosophy of mind book when most people, I guess, are probably considering it a computer science book. Whatever. Cognitive science is probably what I should have said. This is all cognitive science, whether it’s slightly more heavy on philosophy or computer science or neuroscience or experimental psychology or whatever. The problem is that philosophy almost just is cognitive science, to me. Cognitive science + logics/maths.
Anyway, sorry if the ‘philosophy’ word caused any confusion.
Maybe. But while I’m pretty familiar with philosophy journals and cognitive science journals, I’m not familiar with some other types of journals, and so I’m not sure whether my advice applies to, for example, math journals.
I just realized that maybe I’m confusing things by talking about philosophy journals, when really I mean to include cognitive science journals in general.
But what I said in my original post applies to cognitive science journals as well, it’s just that when you’re talking about philosophy (e.g. idealized preference theories of value), you place what you’re saying in the context of the relevant philosophy, and when you’re talking about neuroscience (e.g. the complexity of human values) then you place what you’re saying in the context of the relevant neuroscience, and when you’re talking about AI (e.g. approaches to AGI) then you place what you’re saying in the context of relevant AI research. You can do all three in the same paper.
The kind of philosophy I spend most of my time reading these days is just like that, actually. Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment spends just as much time discussing work done by psychologists like Dawes and Kahneman as it does discussing epistemologists like Goldman and Stich. Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account spends much more time discussing neuroscience than it does philosophy. Three Faces of Desire is split about 60⁄40 between philosophy and neuroscience. Many of the papers on machine ethics aka Friendly AI are split about 50⁄50 between philosophy and AI programming. Cognitive science is like this, after all.
In fact, I’ve been going through the Pennachin & Goertzel volume, reading it as a philosophy of mind book when most people, I guess, are probably considering it a computer science book. Whatever. Cognitive science is probably what I should have said. This is all cognitive science, whether it’s slightly more heavy on philosophy or computer science or neuroscience or experimental psychology or whatever. The problem is that philosophy almost just is cognitive science, to me. Cognitive science + logics/maths.
Anyway, sorry if the ‘philosophy’ word caused any confusion.
You probably should have just titled it “How SIAI could publish in mainstream academic journals”.
Maybe. But while I’m pretty familiar with philosophy journals and cognitive science journals, I’m not familiar with some other types of journals, and so I’m not sure whether my advice applies to, for example, math journals.
It definitely does.