Modeling has come to occupy a central place in philosophy of science. In recent decades, an enormous amount has been written on the practices of model construction, how models represent their targets, how models relate to simulations and theories, and how models are validated and verified.
Thanks very much to Kristina and John for inviting me to post here at Brains. I’m hoping to take this opportunity to revisit and update a few past themes in my research, and sketch some lines of inquiry that I’m either pursuing now or hope to take up in the …
Brains people interested in representational and computational theories of mind will be interested in this talk by Frances Egan, which is coming out soon in Philosophical Studies. If you post questions or comments in the next week or so, Frances will try to respond to them.
In a recent post, I criticized some passages from Alva Noe’s book, Out of Our Heads. I’d like to clarify some details. First, it was pointed out to me that my tone was disrespectful. I am truly sorry about that. My comments were only aimed at the quoted claims, not …
European scientists are building silicon chips containing large scale artificial neural networks (200,000 neurons and 50 million synapses, scalable to a billion neurons and 10 to the 13 synapses). (Thanks to Neal Anderson for the link.) IBM scientists and working on “cognitive computing”, an attempt to build a new generation of …
Stephen Wolfram, of New Kind of Science and Mathematica fame, is scheduled to make public a new tool next May. Wolfram Alpha is supposed to answer a vast number of questions in natural language by computing the answers from a large set of algorithms and databases. Sounds impressive. (Thanks to …
new web page dedicated to the philosophy of neuroscience
