The editors of Neural Mechanisms Online announce the program for their 2018 webconference, on the topic of New Challenges in the Philosophy of Neuroscience. For more information, visit the conference program.
Friday 5 October 2018 |
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| FROM … | WHO? | TITLE |
| 8 GMT | Hong Yu Wong | Embodiment: Structure and Mechanisms |
| 9 GMT | Chiara Brozzo | Categorical perceiving motor actions |
| 9.45 GMT | BREAK | |
| 10 GMT | Alessio Plebe | Neural mechanisms and development in the cortex |
| 10.45 GMT | Bryce Gessell | Does the brain have a “functional unit”? |
| 11.30 GMT | LONG BREAK | |
| 12.30 GMT | Daniel Burnston & Philipp Haueis | Evolving Concepts of “Hierarchy” in Systems Neuroscience |
| 13.15 GMT | Luis Favela | Neural reuse is a general mechanism, but Neural Darwinism is a fundamental theory |
| 14.00 GMT | BREAK | |
| 14.15 GMT | David Colaco | Recharacterizing Scientific Phenomena |
| 15.00 GMT | Gualtiero Piccinini | Levels of Being: An Egalitarian Account |
Saturday 6 October 2018 |
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| FROM … | WHO? | TITLE |
| 12.30 GMT | Alfredo Vernazzani | A Mechanistic Framework for the Neural Correlates of Conscious Visual Object Perception |
| 13.15 GMT | Jessey Wright | Searching for what isn’t There: Two Challenges for Data-Driven Ontology Revision in Cognitive Neuroscience |
| 14 GMT | BREAK | |
| 14.30 GMT | Carrie Figdor | The Fallacy of the Homuncular Fallacy |
| 15.15 GMT | Javier Gomez-Lavin | Working Memory is Not a Natural Kind |
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Just as the webinars, the conference will be hosted by Cisco WebEx (more details HERE).
We are willing to express our gratitude to all those who have submitted a paper. Moreover, we are very grateful to the reviewers that scored and provided comments on the papers:
- Michael ANDERSON
- Ken AIZAWA
- Sofia BONICALZI
- Zdenka BRZOVIĆ
- Alessio BUCCI
- Fausto CARUANA
- Mazviita CHIRIMUUTA
- Matteo COLOMBO
- Matthieu DEWITT
- Krys DOLEGA
- Joseph DEWHURST
- Mirko FARINA
- Stephen GADSBY
- Matteo GRASSO
- Marcello IENCA
- Liz IRVINE
- Marko JURJAKO
- Lena KÄSTNER
- Colin KLEIN
- Daniel KOSTIC
- Francesco MARCHI
- Joseph MCCAFFREY
- Marco NATHAN
- Alfredo PATERNOSTER
- Carlotta PAVESE
- Gualtiero PICCININI
- Emily PRYCHITKO
- Charles RATHKOPF
- Jackie SULLIVAN
- Antonella TRAMACERE
- Alberto VOLTOLINI
- Daniel WEISKOPF
- Hong Yu WONG
- Tal YARKONI