We are thrilled to announce that we have made some additions to our editorial team and offerings at The Brains Blog. The full lineup:
Managing Editors
Symposia Editors
Ann-Sophie Barwich (Featured Scholars Symposia)
Sarah Robins and David Barack (Neuroscience Symposia)
Sarah’s research is focused on memory – the philosophy of memory and its intersections with memory science, from cognitive psychology to cellular neuroscience. She has related interests in mechanism, optogenetics, imagination, and cognitive ontology.
Zina Ward (Cognitive Science of Philosophy Symposia)
Zina’s primary research is on the treatment of variation in cognitive science. I am especially interested in how individual differences complicate philosophical views of explanation, natural kinds, and models.
Journal Symposia Editors
Rob Briscoe (Mind & Language)
Aaron Henry (Ergo)
Aaron is a philosopher of mind and cognitive science investigating the psychological mechanisms whereby agents direct control to what they do and the contributions that these mechanisms make to conscious experience. His research to date focuses on the role of selective perceptual attention to the process of action guidance and in generating the experience of acting, including the sense of ownership of one’s actions.
David Barack (Neuroscience of Consciousness)
David’s neuroscience work focuses on the neural mechanisms of foraging decisions and the construction of representations of task states. His philosophical research argues for a dynamical systems approach to cognition and for an information foraging approach to reasoning.
Book Symposia Editors
Roundtable Editors
Ongoing and New Offerings
As you can see, in addition to continuing our regular symposia on recent journal articles, and our regular series of book symposia, we will be introducing several new types of content. The Featured Scholars symposia will highlight the work of individual scholars in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. The Neuroscience symposia will highlight recent work from neuroscience that is of philosophical interest. The Cognitive Science of Philosophy Symposia will highlight the employment of methods from the broader cognitive sciences that are being used to produce philosophical insight. And the roundtables will be informal discussions with leading philosophers on current issues in the field.
We would like to thank the new and returning members of the editorial team, as well as John Schwenkler and Gualtiero Piccinini for their previous stewardship of the blog. Enjoy!
