Via Kristin Andrews (who, incidentally, will be a featured scholar at Brains beginning in mid-September) comes news of a “reboot” of the Society for the Philosophy of Animal Minds (yes, SPAM), which is “a means to promote and support the work of philosophers and scientists interested in philosophical questions about …
The prediction error minimization theory (PEM) says that the brain continually seeks to minimize its prediction error – minimize the difference between its predictions about the sensory input and the actual sensory input. It is an extremely simple idea but from it arises a surprisingly resourceful conception of brain processing. …
Our next Mind & Language article symposium is on Philipp Koralus’ paper, “The Erotetic Theory of Attention: Questions, Focus and Distraction”, from the journal’s February 2014 issue, with commentaries by Felipe De Brigard, Christopher Mole, Catherine Stinson, and Sebastian Watzl. In his paper, Philipp argues that the functional role of attention …
You may (or may not) have noticed that Pete Mandik and Richard Brown (me) have started a podcast, called SpaceTimeMind, where we talk about tax law updates for 2014, uh, I mean, er, we talk about space and time and mind! The first episode is up now (and has been …
Dates: 25-29 June 2014 Theme: Cognition and Action Location: Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland) Submission deadline: 31 January 2014
Workshop on “What is cognition?” in Bochum, June 27-29, 2013 The workshop invites contributions exploring any and all issues that can move us toward an answer to the question, “what is cognition?”. Contributions are welcome to address a particular view already championed in the literature or bring forward original suggestions …
Brains people interested in representational and computational theories of mind will be interested in this talk by Frances Egan, which is coming out soon in Philosophical Studies. If you post questions or comments in the next week or so, Frances will try to respond to them.
