Since several readers of Brains have told me they were interested in taking part in this group, we will start tomorrow. Here is how I will proceed. Starting tomorrow (Wednesday), I will send by e-mail a chapter every week. On Monday, I will open a thread on the relevant chapter. …
I now have a full draft of my book on concepts, Doing Without Concepts (OUP). A small reading group at Pitt (Bogen, Glymour…) gave me some invaluable feedback on the previous draft (actually, we are reading the last chapters). If a few readers of Brains are interested, I’d like to …
The website Interdisciplines is running a web-based workshop on Adaptation and Representations. Readers oif Brains might want to check the discussion.
It’s time to apply for grad school in philosophy. So, this may be of interest to some readers of this blog. The department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh has a new area of concentation in the History & Philosophy of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry. …
I just re-read Lexical Competence, by Diego Marconi (MIT Press, 1997), a book that deserves to be read more widely than it has been. Here is my spin on it:Lexical competence is competence in understanding words, a component of general semantic competence (competence in understanding language). Marconi reviews arguments to the …
Cfp on the topic of Imagination and Creativity for the Arts and Neurosciences Review Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France (Deadline: February 15, 2007) ARTS and NEUROSCIENCES REVIEW Established in the Institut Jean Nicod, an interdisciplinary lab interface between the humanities and the cognitive sciences, ARTS and NEUROSCIENCES REVIEW presents articles, …
Alphapsy, a new blog on psychology, neuropsychology and the evolution of cognition, might be of interest to some readers of Brains.
