January 2007 — The Brains Blog

IJCNN 2007 Special Session on Philosophical Aspects of Neural Network Modeling

Gualtiero Piccinini January 4, 2007 November 25, 2022 Conferences / Mindcraft

We would like to invite you to submit a paper for the IJCNN 2007 Special Session on Philosophical Aspects of Neural Network Modeling…
Papers Due: January 31, 2007

Spinning Free Wheels

Gualtiero Piccinini January 4, 2007 November 25, 2022 Metaphysics / Mindcraft

There is a review of contemporary debates about free will in the NYT of two days ago. The author gets a bit mixed up on freedom vs. unpredictability, but this is as far as an intelligent science writer has gotten so far by interviewing a bunch of scientists and philosophers.

Experimental Existential Psychology

Gualtiero Piccinini January 2, 2007 November 25, 2022 Mindcraft / Psychology

I always thought existentialism was the exclusive province of some continental philosophers. Well, I was wrong. There appears to be a growing literature of psychologists investigating empirically the existential concerns of people as well as the psychological strategies they adopt to cope with existential concerns, the effects those concerns have …