Brains


A dialogue on Philosophy of Mind and Related Matters

Brains is a forum for discussing the philosophy of: mind, neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science.  If you work in these areas and would like to become a contributor, please contact the administrator.
Paul Churchland's Neurophilosophy [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 6/24/2008 12:13 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
What Are the Ten Most Elegant and Decisive Neuroscience Experiments? [Read Article]
Posted by carl craver at 6/12/2008 3:53 PM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Taylor's Stroke [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 5/13/2008 3:59 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Unconscious Determinants of Free Decisions in the Human Brain [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 4/26/2008 1:04 PM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Real Time Neurofeedback using fMRI [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 4/26/2008 7:39 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The revenge of Quine-Duhem [Read Article]
Posted by Eric Thomson at 4/18/2008 12:28 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
BrainVoyager Brain Tutor [Read Article]
Posted by alex morgan at 3/26/2008 1:24 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Explaining Bias [Read Article]
Posted by adam leonard at 3/26/2008 8:50 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Blue Brain [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 3/9/2008 5:40 PM | View Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Steps Towards Brain-Reading [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 3/9/2008 5:35 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Chomskian Neurolinguistics [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 2/14/2008 10:24 AM | View Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
When Was Ignorance of Neuroscience OK? [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 2/9/2008 5:23 PM | View Comments (20) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (1)
There is no place in the brain where it all comes together? [Read Article]
Posted by Eric Thomson at 1/17/2008 2:50 PM | View Comments (29) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Do You Take Cognition-Enhancing Drugs? [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 12/24/2007 11:03 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Mul­ti­col­or La­bel­ing of Neurons [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 11/12/2007 7:19 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Sleeping News [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 10/23/2007 5:36 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Microsoft doesn't rely on introspection [Read Article]
Posted by marcin milkowski at 10/16/2007 8:25 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Neuroscience and multiple realization [Read Article]
Posted by kenneth aizawa at 10/3/2007 6:51 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
How to Live with Traumatic Brain Injury [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 9/9/2007 9:04 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Building Remote Controls for Brains [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 8/15/2007 8:27 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Multiple realization of quantum computation? [Read Article]
Posted by marcin milkowski at 8/10/2007 12:34 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
News from the NY Times [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 8/1/2007 11:22 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Decision Making from a Neuroeconomics Perspective [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 7/20/2007 6:24 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Connectionist Computation [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 7/14/2007 1:49 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (1)
Explaining the Brain [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 6/21/2007 10:37 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Neural Rewards for Altruistic Behavior (Voluntary or Not) [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 6/19/2007 6:04 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
New Ideas on Neuronal Action [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 6/18/2007 4:25 PM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
"The Cognitive Brain" [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 6/15/2007 12:19 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Intervening in the Psyche [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 6/15/2007 12:05 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
What is "the grain problem"? [Read Article]
Posted by kenneth aizawa at 6/6/2007 1:53 PM | View Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Phenomenal Consciousness without Cerebral Cortex? [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 5/21/2007 9:18 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Slate's Brains [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 5/2/2007 4:47 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Realization, Multiple Realization, and Levels [Read Article]
Posted by kenneth aizawa at 4/27/2007 6:12 AM | View Comments (14) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (2)
Brain States Vs. States of the Brain [Read Article]
Posted by Richard Brown at 4/12/2007 10:42 AM | View Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Human trichromatic vision may be a lot less common that previously thought [Read Article]
Posted by kenneth aizawa at 3/25/2007 5:20 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
HBO's Addiction Project Online [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 3/12/2007 10:25 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
My Kitchen Experiment with Olfactory Attention [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 3/10/2007 2:42 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Neurolaw [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 3/8/2007 5:55 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Brain lesions and multiple realization (Round 2) [Read Article]
Posted by kenneth aizawa at 3/2/2007 4:28 PM | View Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Brain lesions and multiple realization [Read Article]
Posted by kenneth aizawa at 2/28/2007 8:57 PM | View Comments (34) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The social construction of dissociative amnesia? [Read Article]
Posted by daniel weiskopf at 2/27/2007 8:00 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Edelman's Second Nature [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 2/20/2007 3:36 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
HBO's The Addiction Project [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 2/19/2007 9:32 AM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Free Will from Neurobiology? [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 1/28/2007 4:26 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Consciousness and the Brainstem [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 1/6/2007 8:23 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (2)
Neuroscience and Its Philosophy 2006 [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 12/22/2006 11:15 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
"Coordinated memory replay in the visual cortex and hippocampus during sleep" [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 12/19/2006 10:46 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Reflections on Mirror Neurons [Read Article]
Posted by alex morgan at 12/5/2006 11:20 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (1)
Deja vu 'recreated in laboratory' [Read Article]
Posted by alex morgan at 12/3/2006 5:28 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
word/taste synaesthesia [Read Article]
Posted by anthony dardis at 11/23/2006 9:39 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Necker cube [Read Article]
Posted by anna-mari rusanen at 11/21/2006 9:47 AM | View Comments (25) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Brain's 'Steady Cam' [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 11/11/2006 7:21 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Synthese Issue on Neuroscience [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 10/29/2006 9:16 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
What Neuroscientists Do [Read Article]
Posted by eddy nahmias at 10/20/2006 2:10 PM | View Comments (23) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Do cognitive neuroscientist really think... [Read Article]
Posted by anna-mari rusanen at 10/11/2006 2:44 AM | View Comments (13) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Neuroethics Article [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 9/28/2006 7:59 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Feeling Someone Behind You Who Is Not There [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 9/22/2006 3:16 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Coltheart's critique of neuroimaging in CORTEX [Read Article]
Posted by rob wilson at 9/15/2006 7:21 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Does dualism make a difference? [Read Article]
Posted by rob wilson at 9/15/2006 7:01 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Signs of Consciousness in Vegetative Patients? [Read Article]
Posted by Pete Mandik at 9/8/2006 6:29 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Philosophy of Neuroscience [Read Article]
Posted by carl craver at 9/6/2006 10:12 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Neo-Empiricism [Read Article]
Posted by edouard machery at 8/29/2006 9:30 PM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Competence, Computation, and Mechanistic Levels [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 8/23/2006 10:14 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Computational Explanation in Neuroscience [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 8/3/2006 1:37 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Intrinsic Functional Organization of the Nervous System [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 7/27/2006 2:51 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
News [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 7/25/2006 4:13 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Is the Brain Digital or Analog? [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 5/2/2006 8:32 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Revenge of Grandmother Cells [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 3/26/2006 2:01 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Cognition and the Brain [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 3/7/2006 5:19 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)