IAI.tv has published a debate between Jennifer Hornsby, Patrick Haggard, and George Ellis on the neuroscience of free will. The most recent issue of Abstracta, an open-access journal of philosophy published by Düsseldorf University Press, is now available. The New York Times has a lengthy review of Evan Thompson’s new book Waking, Dreaming, …
This post ends with a brief discussion about anxiety about the internal. I take that anxiety to arise when we see strong arguments for the idea that theories cannot successfully posit non-reducible mental states that provide distinctive causal explanations. The idea that the causal powers producing our beliefs, actions and …
The 2014 volume of the Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication is co-edited by Edouard Machery and Jesse Prinz. It’s available here, and looks great! All of the papers are free to access, without license or subscription.
Third Annual Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp Topic: Unconscious perception in (contemporary, analytic) philosophy of perception. Eligibility: The Essay Prize is open to those who received their PhD after May 2006 or who are PhD students. Length: 3000 words. Single spaced! Deadline: November 1, 2014. …
In The Atlantic, the neuroscientist Nancy Andreason discusses her research on the neural underpinnings of creativity. At Aesthetics for Birds, Bence Nanay discusses the role of attention in aesthetic perception. (h/t Leiter Reports) An article in Nature discusses a new push to fund neuroscience research in California. (h/t David Rosenthal) And on a lighter note, here’s …
This is really cool. Doesn’t strike me as an illusion, though, but rather as an illustration of the cognitive penetrability of of auditory perception. (h/t Richard Brown and others on Facebook) A new exhibition in London’s National Gallery explores how the “color-blind” see art. (h/t the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience …
The prediction error minimization theory (PEM) says that the brain continually seeks to minimize its prediction error – minimize the difference between its predictions about the sensory input and the actual sensory input. It is an extremely simple idea but from it arises a surprisingly resourceful conception of brain processing. …
