Book Symposium on The Brain Abstracted

Book Symposium on The Brain Abstracted in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences Philipp Haueis, Department of Philosophy and Institute for Studies of Science (ISOS), Bielefeld University, Germany The journal Philosophy of the Mind Sciences has just published a book symposium (LINK) of The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and …

Introducing: Brains and Philosophy and the Mind Sciences

Hi Everyone, I’m very happy to announce that we will be collaborating on a number of posts with Philosophy and the Mind Sciences! PhiMindSci is an open access journal; you can read everything we discuss in full here: https://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/issue/archive Our first post, today, will be by Philipp Haueis, describing the …

Introductory Conference: Purdue Cognition, Agency, & Intelligence Center.

Hi All, We’re happy to help announce the launch of the Cognition, Agency, & Intelligence Center. Please see information about their introductory conference below! Description: We are thrilled to invite you to attend the Interdisciplinary Conference in Cognitive Science, hosted by the Cognition, Agency, and Intelligence Center (CAIC) at Purdue …

Introducing: New Associate Editor, Jorge Ignacio Fuentes Muñoz

We are thrilled to announce that Jorge Ignacio Fuentes Muñoz will be joining us at Brains as an Associate Editor.  Jorge is an assistant professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and will be overseeing content in philosophy of mind and neuroscience, as well as keeping us updated on philosophical …

Author’s Reply to Mazviita Chirimuuta

Reply to Chirimuuta  Mazviita Chirimuuta is sympathetic to my deflationary construal of scientists’ representational talk when they characterize their models, but she sees objectionable elements of eliminativism in my discussion of representation outside the domain of science. She says of me: “If she has to choose between the ontology of the manifest image, and that of the scientific image, it’s the manifest that …

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