Author: Cameron Buckner

In my current work, I focus on the relationship between learning and meaning. In particular, I focus on approaches to mental content, cognition, and knowledge representation that take the latest empirical theories of learning as their starting point. While my main focus remains on cognitive science (especially animal cognition and artificial intelligence), these insights also ground solutions to more traditional philosophical problems. For example, in other papers I apply my views to the question of whether philosophical training has the right kind of structure to render our intuitions about thought experiments more reliable than those of novices, and in another recent paper I suggest that an investigation into the way that novices learn to become expert artists may illuminate the question of what it is for something to count as an artwork. I am also interested in using biological approaches to learning to enhance machine learning in computer science and the semantic web.

Introducing Maria Botero

I am extremely pleased to introduce Maria Botero, who will contribute several featured posts at the Brains blog beginning this coming week. Maria is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at Sam Houston State University, in Huntsville, TX. Prior to that she obtained her PhD …

CFP: Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry Annual Meeting

Cameron Buckner July 9, 2015 July 9, 2015 CFPs / Psychiatry

Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry 28th ANNUAL MEETING May 14-15, 2016 Atlanta, GA Call for Abstracts PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN SCIENTIFIC PSYCHIATRY: RDOC, DSM, MECHANISMS, AND MORE Conference co-chairs: Şerife Tekin & Peter Zachar

Spaulding and Kandel on relationship between psychiatry/philosophy

Cameron Buckner March 18, 2014 March 19, 2014 Academia / Neuroscience / Uncategorized

See the following video from the Emerson-Wier Liberal Arts Symposium on the topic of interdisciplinarity at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. Spaulding’s remarks begin at 25 minutes, and Kandel’s response begins at 1:33. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y0KXh1bTqqM There has been a fair amount of discussion recently on Facebook concerning how to frame …