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. A guest post by Jack Copeland: 2026 …
Book Symposium on The Brain Abstracted in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences Philipp Haueis, Department of Philosophy and Institute for Studies of Science (ISOS), Bielefeld University, Germany The journal Philosophy of the Mind Sciences has just published a book symposium (LINK) of The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and …
Hi Everyone, I’m very happy to announce that we will be collaborating on a number of posts with Philosophy and the Mind Sciences! PhiMindSci is an open access journal; you can read everything we discuss in full here: https://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/issue/archive Our first post, today, will be by Philipp Haueis, describing the …
Hi All, We’re happy to help announce the launch of the Cognition, Agency, & Intelligence Center. Please see information about their introductory conference below! Description: We are thrilled to invite you to attend the Interdisciplinary Conference in Cognitive Science, hosted by the Cognition, Agency, and Intelligence Center (CAIC) at Purdue …
A Global Approach to Cognitive Dysfunction as a Framework for Neurodivergence Abel Wajnerman Paz and Jorge Ignacio Fuentes We propose a global approach to distinguishing between cognitive function and dysfunction as an appropriate framework for thinking about neurodivergence. It has been a commonplace in philosophy of psychiatry, at least since Wakefield …
Mnemonic agency?Marina Trakas You forget your mother’s birthday. You remember telling your partner to pick up your child from school, but he insists you did not (and in fact, you didn’t). You are considering promoting an employee, and all the mistakes made by the default male candidate fade away, along with …
The role of attentional biases in addictive decision-making Federico Burdman Addiction is of interest to philosophers, among other things, because it raises a puzzle about rationality in practical agency. A common way to lay out the puzzle takes its cue from the standard definition of addiction as persistent drug use despite harmful consequences. …
