The announcement of my contributions says that they will in part concern my recent Keeping the World in Mind: Mental Representations and the Sciences of the Mind. The overriding theme of that book is the proper understanding of “representation” as it occurs in recent cognitive neuroscience, broadly understood. I argue …
It’s my great pleasure to introduce Anne Jaap Jacobson as our next featured scholar. Anne is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston and Director of the UH Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science. She is also a Visiting Academic at Somerville College, …
Posting at Brains will be predictably quiet during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, but we do have some excellent content on the calendar, including: Anne Jaap Jacobson will blog about her work, including her new book Keeping the World in Mind, beginning December 4. Matthew Fulkerson will blog about his work, including his new …
Another video discussion from the Institute for Art and Ideas:
I wanted to thank readers for reading, commenters for commenting, and Kristina Musholt for inviting me to be a guest blogger. Three cheers for Brains! The discussions here gave me a chance to think out loud about some questions that are dangling from a book manuscript I’m circulating. It’s called *The Rationality of Perception*. Among other …
The editors of the Brains blog, together with the Departments of Philosophy at Florida State University and the University of Houston, are pleased to announce that the first annual Minds Online conference will be held at the Brains blog during the month of September, 2015. The conference will feature invited …
You can nominate your favorites until the end of the day on Nov. 17, perhaps choosing from any of our featured posts by Jakob Hohwy, Kristin Andrews, Dan Weiskopf, and Susanna Siegel. Anything published since Nov. 9 of last year is fair game. However, nominations are limited to the first …
