I wanted to let readers of Brains know of a new blog that I’m involved in, the What Sorts of People blog: check it out. This is the blog for the What Sorts of People Should There Be? network. It is a collaborative blog with regular contributions from around 10 …
Consider the following argument: 1. Eve’s believing that p is realized by having a token of p in her head. 2. Having a token of p in one’s head is realized by some detailed, neural state. So, 3. Eve’s believing that p is realized by some detailed neural state. …
John Sutton @ Macquarie just passed on the following information, which some of you may not know of and to whom it will be of interest: Max Coltheart has written a heavy critique of imaging (Max Coltheart, ‘What has functional neuroimaging told us about the mind (so far)?’, Cortex 42 …
On my long, long list of “Things I Don’t Really Have Time to Think About But Wish I Did” is the following simple question: Does dualism make a difference to one’s overall view of the mind? Since some might assume that the obvious answer to the question is an obvious …
Why is there little work on the phil of psychiatry?
