As many of you know, the journal Synthese devotes one issue per year to the philosophy of neuroscience. If you work in this area, you should definitely consider submitting articles to John Bickle, who is in charge of the yearly issue in question. This year, most of the yearly Synthese …
Jeff Dauer sent me this interesting article. In my humble opinion, more philosophers of mind should pay attention to more of this kind of science.
Philosophers’ Carnival #33 here.Augenblick reports on various interesting things, including the following:The “brain box,” a new computer that attempts to mimick the fault-tolerant characteristics of the brain, is being built by scientists at the University of Manchester.The first neurons to develop in the brain have been identified by researchers at …
This is an old matter of debate in neuroscience, going back to the 1940s. The question has never been properly resolved. In my opinion, the question has never even been properly formulated.A recent study in Nature provides evidence that “in some sensory organs and invertebrate systems, neurons can also communicate …
Take a look at this.
A. Brook and K. Akins, eds., Cognition and the Brain: The Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement, Cambridge, CUP, 2005.A collection of articles by a group of good philosophers of neuroscience, on a wide range of topics (theory in neuroscience, representation, “visuomotor transformation,” color, consciousness). Should be of interest to most philosophers …
