This is the third of several short interviews on AI and agency. In the interest of our guests’ and audience’s time, the interviews will be brief, but each interview is supplemented with a reading list that allows readers to explore the topic in greater depth. We are fortunate to have …
Brains is happy to help publicize the CFP for a special issue of Res Philosophica. The topic is “Rationality and the First Person” and there is a prize for the top paper! See full details here: https://resphilosophica.org/calls/
Mindcraft is a series of opinion posts on current issues in cognitive science by Brains Blog founder Gualtiero Piccinini. Do you agree? Disagree? Please contribute on the discussion board below! If you’d like to write a full-length response, please contact editor Dan Burnston. Rethinking Biological Functions: A Goal-Contribution Approach and Its Systemic Implications Hanzhe …
Call for PapersThis special issue of Synthese seeks to explore the breadth and depth of Daniel Dennett’s ideas across a range of disciplines, including scientific ontology, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and discussions of consciousness and free will This SI celebrates the interdisciplinary nature of his work, …
We’re happy to help publicize the following announcement of the brand-new “Society for Philosophy and Neuroscience” (SPAN)! Please see their info below, and consider applying to the first meeting, to be held in St. Louis in 2025! Announcement: The Society for Philosophy and Neuroscience (SPAN) is a new philosophical and …
Many thanks again to Andre Curtis-Trudel, Marcin Milkowski, Danielle Williams, and Mazviita Chirimuuta for their commentaries on our recent book The Physical Signature of Computation: A Robust Mapping Account. The medium independence of computation seems to have caused trouble for the latter three commentators, so we take this opportunity to …
The Physical Signature of Computation (PSC) builds on previous publications by Gualtiero Piccinini that have shaped the debate over the nature of information processing in the brain. I will focus on this topic, the subject of Chapter 9, and discuss how PSC inherits some of the flaws embedded in the …
