This forthcoming volume, edited by David Kaplan, should be of interest to The Brains Blog community, and it includes papers by fellow contributors Gualtiero Piccinini and Corey Maley:
Category: Cognition
Symposium on Shea and Frith: “Dual-process theories and consciousness: the case for ‘Type Zero’ cognition”
I am thrilled to introduce our first symposium in a series on articles from Neuroscience of Consciousness, on Nicholas Shea and Chris Frith’s “Dual-process theories and consciousness: the case for ‘Type Zero’ cognition.” We have three excellent commentaries on the paper, by Jacob Berger, Nick Byrd, and Elizabeth Schechter, along …
6. Descriptive names
Consider the following example: Case 1: ‘Tremulous Hand’ ‘Tremulous Hand’ is used to refer to the otherwise unidentified author of around 50,000 Thirteenth Century glosses in manuscripts. Palaeographical analysis provides strong evidence that these glosses are the work of a single person with distinctive (tremulous and left-leaning) handwriting. All that …
CFP: Cognition in Groups
Call for Papers – Workshop on “Cognition in Groups”, May 31 2017 in Milan Center for the Study of Social Action, University of Milan, Via Festa del Perdono, 7, 20122 Milano, Italy. Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2017 Confirmed speakers: Giulia Piredda (Pavia), Kourken Michaelian (Dunedin), Giuliano Torrengo (Milan) The …
CFP: Advances in Cognitive Systems
The Fifth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems will take place May 12-14, 2017, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, USA. The meeting aims to bring together researchers interested in building computational artifacts that focus on high-level cognition and decision making, reliance on rich, structured representations, and …
CFA: The Rational Role of Cognitive Phenomenology
Call for Abstracts, Workshop: The Rational Role of Cognitive Phenomenology University of Bergen, June 6–7th, 2017. Extended deadline for submissions: February 26th, 2017 Travel and accommodation funding is available. The organisers encourage participation from members of under-represented groups. Please scroll down for further information. DESCRIPTION Previous orthodoxy in philosophy of …
CFP: Cognition and Computation
Special issue of Reti, saperi, linguaggi: Italian Journal of Cognitive Sciences Deadline for submissions: July 31th, 2017 Notification of acceptance: October 15th, 2017 One of the founding ideas of cognitive science is that cognition is essentially computation. From the very start, many have denied this view, but in recent times computationalism …