Category: Mindcraft

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Wayne Wu (CMU) would like to present arguments against type-identity theory to his group of neuroscientists in his phil cog sci class, and he is wondering what papers he should have them read. As the audience is a specific one, he is disinclined to some of the classics (e.g. Kripke’s argument in Naming and …

A very interestinginterdisciplinary conference plus workshop organized by Kathleen Akins and Brit Brogaard in Vancouver on August 4-7, 2011 .

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Studies in Brain and Mind is a book series published by Springer.  It covers all areas in which philosophy and neuroscience intersect: philosophy of mind, philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of psychiatry, neurophilosophy, and neuroethics.   Under the previous editor, John Bickle, the series published several high quality …

I just read David Papineau’s excellent and provocative 2001 article, “The Rise of Physicalism “.  He argues that physicalism is supported by the principle of the completeness of physics (sometimes known as the causal closure of the physical), and that theoretical and empirical evidence for such a principle slowly built …

The new year prompts a reminder:  if you work in philosophy of mind and related sciences and would like to contribute to Brains, feel free to email me.