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Posts from the founder of Brains, Gualtiero Piccinini.
On Publishing While in Graduate School
A grad student at a top five philosophy program wrote me as follows: What do you think of someone like me (i.e. zero publications) submitting things to very new journals, like “Review of Philosophy and Psychology” or “Philosophy & Theory in Biology”? It seems probably better to go for journals …
Philosophers' Carnival #100
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Did McCulloch and Pitts 1943 Offer a Theory of Cognition in terms of Digital Computation?
Yes! Some people don’t realize this. Someone recently objected to me that since McCulloch and Pitts were studying the brain, they must be offering only a theory of neural activity, on the same level as, say, Hodgkin and Huxley. How can I say that McCulloch and Pitts had a theory of cognition? Although …
Are mirror neurons evidence for simulation theory?
Hi folks. I’m one of the new kids on the virtual block. Thanks to Gualtiero for giving me the opportunity to contribute here. I’m interested in the relation between mirror neurons and social cognition. Mirror neurons are neurons in our brains that fire for boththe first-person experience and the third-person …
Recovering What Is Said With Empty Names
Two years ago, I ran a survey of semantic intuitions concerning empty names, that is, names that appear to be without a referent (e.g., ‘Santa Claus’, ‘Superman’). Some of those who kindly participated in the survey asked me to post the results of the survey. (Thanks again for your help, folks.) …
Philosophers' Carnival #99
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