As reported on UCL News, “UCL reports with great sadness the death on 28 November of Jon Driver, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, and one of the world’s leading psychologists and neuroscientists. Professor Jon Driver Professor Driver was formerly Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) and …
Recently there has been a lot of interesting work (including some by one of our own) done on the epistemic status of first-personal reports on conscious states. The usual target in this tradition is the assumption of a certain kind of first-person authority concerning what consciousness is like for someone …
By Brandon Towl In another thread (“What’s a good reading against type-identity theory for neuroscientists?”), I mentioned that I had a forthcoming paper in Philosophical Psychology that puts pressure on the IBE argument for identity theory. Below is the abstract. If anyone would like a draft of the paper, please …
My great colleague Brit Brogaard has recently started doing empirical research, primarily in cognitive neuroscience. This prompted the following dialogue, which will eventually be published in our department’s newsletter. Gualtiero: Until recently, you were known for armchair philosophizing and not at all for empirical research. Could you briefly explain how you became …
At the recent meeting of the Pacific APA, I had an interesting conversation with a prominent philosopher of science who also does some work in cognitive science. We were talking about whether neuroscience and psychology contrain each other. I was arguing that they do. He suggested that perhaps the only …
C, R, Gallistel and A. P. King, Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science Will Transform Neuroscience, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. This is a rich and thought-provoking book. I cannot do it justice in a brief post so I apologize in advance for that. Roughly speaking, the book argues that (1) many …
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