Posts from the founder of Brains, Gualtiero Piccinini.
The European Science Foundation has been working on ranking academic journals in various disciplines. Here are their brand new rankings of journals in philosophy and in history and philosophy of science.I recently spoke with a member of the committee that ranked philosophy journals. He explained the ESF criteria as follows:Journals that …
Carl Craver, Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience, OUP, 2007. The book has been released in Europe. Americans will have to wait a few more weeks, though they can pre-oder it at Amazon. I observed the development of this book from its very beginning, and I …
Results published in the last issue of Science, as reported in today’s NYT.
Wired reports that in a paper just published in Biophysics Journal, two physicists suggest that neurons communicate by sending pressure waves (rather than electrical signals, as everyone else believes) through their axons. (Link courtesy of Blake Myers.)
… is a book by Arnold Trehub that is now available online, along with a few other papers by him.
Some European researchers have published a book, entitled “Intervening in the Brain: Changing Psyche and Society,” which covers both the possibilities of intervention offered by cutting-edge neuroscience and the philosophical and political issues that such interventions raise.
Contrary to what many doctors apparently assume, there is overwhelming evidence (cf. here and here) that hydranencephalic children, who lack a cerebral cortex, are creature conscious in a robust sense. That is, they have a sleep-wake cycle, they respond appropriately to some features of stimuli, and they express emotions and preferences. …
