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Neural Mechanisms Webconference 2018: New Challenges in Philosophy of Neuroscience

John Schwenkler September 26, 2018 January 17, 2019 Neuroscience; Philosophy of Science / NM Webconference

The editors of Neural Mechanisms Online announce the program for their 2018 webconference, on the topic of New Challenges in the Philosophy of Neuroscience. For more information, visit the conference program. Friday 5 October 2018 FROM … WHO? TITLE 8 GMT Hong Yu Wong Embodiment: Structure and Mechanisms 9 GMT …

Symposium on Haun, Tononi, Koch, and Tsuchiya: “Are we underestimating the richness of visual experience?”

Daniel Burnston April 13, 2018 April 13, 2018 Consciousness / Neuroscience of Consciousness Symposia / Neuroscience; Philosophy of Science / perception / perception;neuroscience

I am delighted to announce the next symposium in our series on articles from Neuroscience of Consciousness. We have two types of symposia. For primarily theoretical articles, we will have several commentators from a variety of theoretical perspectives. For novel empirical research, we will have single commentators whose goal is …

Earthworms, Google servers, and an important kind of freedom

Sebastian Watzl January 17, 2018 January 17, 2018 Attention / Cognition / evolution / Intentionality / Mental Action / metaphysics of mind / Neuroscience; Philosophy of Science / perception / Psychology / Sebastian Watzl: Structuring Mind

Yesterday, I sketched the priority structure framework: attention consists in the activity of regulating priority structures, which order the parts of the subject’s on-going mental life by their relative priority. Why would we organize our mind in this way? In other words, what is the function of attention? The answer, …

Neural Mechanisms Online

John Schwenkler January 10, 2018 January 17, 2019 Neural Mechanisms Online / Neuroscience / Neuroscience; Philosophy of Science / Philosophy of Mind

We are very pleased to announce the beginning of Neural Mechanisms Online, i.e. the first international cycle of webinars (=online seminars) on the Philosophy of Neuroscience! The webinars will be held from January to July 2018, every two weeks (see the calendar below). They will deal with hot topics of …

Philosophical Foundations of Neurolaw

Martin Roth November 7, 2017 November 9, 2017 Ethics / Free will / functionalism / Neuroscience; Philosophy of Science / Philosophy of Mind

Another book that may be of interest to The Brains Blog community is my Philosophical Foundations of Neurolaw, which is coming out next month. A major aim of the book is to provide an alternative to Michael Pardo and Dennis Patterson’s treatment of issues in the philosophy of mind and …

Explanation and Integration in Mind and Brain Science

Martin Roth November 7, 2017 November 7, 2017 Cognition / Explanation / functionalism / Neuroscience; Philosophy of Science / Psychology / reduction

This forthcoming volume, edited by David Kaplan, should be of interest to The Brains Blog community, and it includes papers by fellow contributors Gualtiero Piccinini and Corey Maley:

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Introducing Jakob Hohwy

Kristina Musholt June 16, 2014 June 16, 2014 Attention / Consciousness / Delusion / Featured Scholar: Jakob Hohwy / Neuroscience; Philosophy of Science / perception;neuroscience / Philosophy of Mind

It’s my pleasure to introduce Jakob Hohwy, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow at the Philosophy Department at Monash University, as our next featured scholar here at Brains.