We are thrilled that some authors of the new edited volume Neural Mechanisms: New Challenges in the Philosophy of Neuroscience (Springer, 2020) will be sharing and responding to comments this week. You can find a new post each day or find everything in one place here (as it becomes available). A list of this week’s authors and posts is below.
- Fabrizio Calzavarini & Marco Viola, Is There a Philosophy of Neuroscience?
- Mazviita Chirimuuta, Your Brain Is Like a Computer: Function, Analogy, Simplification
- Daniel Weiskopf, What Decoding Can’t Do
- Bryce Gessell, (Behind the stage of) Prediction and Topological Models in Neuroscience
- Daniel Burnston & Philipp Haueis, Evolving Concepts of “Hierarchy” in Systems Neuroscience