Posts from the founder of Brains, Gualtiero Piccinini.
Some sessions I enjoyed last week at the 2006 PSA in Vancouver:Philosophy in the Trenches: From Naturalized to Experimental Philosophy (of Science)Jonathan Weinberg and Stephen Crowley argued that experimental philosophy is, indeed, philosophy (contrary to some exclusionary views to the effect that ‘experimental philosophy’ is an oxymoron).Karola Stotz presented some …
Bob Gordon sent me this MSNBC.com Article: New study reveals the brain’s ‘steady cam’. Our eyes constantly flit around, but rather than producing a shaky image like that in a jostled video camera, we perceive a coherent scene. Now researchers have identified what could be the brain circuit responsible for …
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Last week at the 2006 PSA Meeting, there was a session with Michael Dickson, editor of Philosophy of Science. What he had to say is especially interesting in light of recent controversies on how philosophy journals are run.Here are a few things I remember Michael Dickson saying (paraphrased by me):1. …
Last Call for papers(Deadline: December 1, 2006)OBJECTS and SOUND PERCEPTIONIssue 7 (2007) of the EUROPEAN REVIEW of PHILOSOPHYhttps://www.erp-review.org
As I mentioned earlier, an issue of Synthese devoted to computational explanation in neuroscience and related topics is about to come out. The articles are now available on the Synthese website. (You can see the abstracts; to see the articles, you or your institution needs to subscribe to the journal.)G. Piccinini, …
Corey Maley found this nice Halloween tribute to a great man.
